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How do red blood cells structures relate to their functions?

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Large surface area makes it easy to carry more oxygen

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How do sperms cells structures relate to their functions?

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Tail makes it easy to swim towards egg. Mitchocondra is to provide energy

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What are stem cells

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Stem cells are UNSPECIALISED ANIMAL cells that are involved in GROWTH and REPAIR

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How can stem cells be used to benefit humans

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They can develop into specialized cells to replace lost/damaged cells

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One ethical concern with the use of embryonic stem cells

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Embryo nice stem cells are found in early embryos which means they could have been a human instead of being used for cells

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What’s a cerebrums function

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Largest part of the brain and controls our higher order functions such as thought perception and personality

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What is cerebellums functions

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Controls balance and muscular coordination

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What is the medullas function

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Controls rate of breathing and heart rate

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What are gaps between nerves called

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Synapses

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Where is a male gamete produced

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Anthers

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Where is a female gamete produced

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Ovaries

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What is zygote

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Fertilized egg

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Difference between diploid cells and gametes

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Diploid cells have 2 sets of chromosomes !

gametes only have one set of chromosomes and So are called haploid

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What’s fertilization

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When a male and female gamete join to produce a zygote

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What’s genotype

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A set of genes that organism posses for a particular charectorisitic

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What’s phenotype

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The physical appearance of an organism for a particular charectorisitic

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What’s a gamete

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Sex cell

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What’s an allele

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Different forms of the same gene

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Whys transpiration important to plant cells

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So that plants can loose water through the stomata

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What two things could increase transpiration

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High winds and high temperatures

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What vessel does water pass through

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The xylem

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What strengthens the xylem

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Lignin

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What’s opens and closes the stomata

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Guard cells

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How do guard cells open and close the stomata

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When guard cells become turgid the stomata open to allow CO2 in and H2O out to allow more photosynthesis

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What’s do veins do

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Carry blood to the heat, low pressure meaning only need thin walls

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What does capillary do

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Forms a network between veins and arterys at organ and tissues, low pressure, thin walls

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What do arterys do

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Carries blood away from heart, high pressure so they need thick walls!

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What do veins supply the heart with

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Blood

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What’s happens if the colanary artery is blocked

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If blocked by cholesterol the could cause heart complications eg a heart attack

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How do you reduce change of getting heart disease?

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Healthy diet and excersise regularly