Paper 2B Part 1 Flashcards
What is the general outline for how bodies respond to change?
Stimulus receptor central nervous system (brain or spinal cord) effector (muscle for nervous response, gland for hormonal response) response
What two types of response can our bodies have?
hormonal and nervous
Define stimulus
Detectable change in the internal or external environment
Define receptors
Any structure able to respond to a change
Define co-ordinator (CNS)
The ‘switchboard’ connecting information from the receptor to the appropriate effector
Define effector
Causes a response (muscle or gland)
Define response
The output/change in behaviour
With heat on the hand as the stimulus, what happens in the rest of the system?
Heat on hand nerves on hand detect heat message sent to CNS message sent to muscles in arm move hand
Organisms react to stimuli in their environment in different ways, what are the main diffrences?
• The whole organism or only part of it could move in response• The movement could be directional or non-directional
What does an organisms reaction to its environment enable it to do?
to be better adapted to its environment
What are the types of response?
Kinesis, taxes, and trophisms
What is kinesis / kinetic response?
• Whole organisms• Alteration in the rate of movement• In response to a change in the intensity of a stimulus• Non-directional (not determined by the stimulus)
What is taxes / Tactic Response?
• Movement of the entire organism or cell• In response to and directed by the stimulus• Phototaxis = light, Chemotaxis = chemical• Positive taxis (towards + ) or negative taxis (away from - )
What is tropisms / trophic response?
• Movement of part of a plant• Directed by the stimulus• Geotropism, phototropism, hydrotropism• Growth response
Which responses affect the whole organsim?
tactic and kinetic
Which responses affect part of an organism?
tropic
Describe the processes involved in the transport of sugars in plant stems (5 marks)
At the source, sucrose is actively transported into the phloem via the companion cells. This lowers the water potential in the phloem and water enters by osmosis. This produces a high hydrostatic pressure, causing a mass flow towards roots. At roots, sugars are removed and used in respiration.
What Plant Responses are there?
- Phototropism: response to light2. Hydrotropism: response to water3. Geotropism: response to gravity
Where is IAA produced?
.IAA produced at the apical meristem, at the top of the plant
.Plants do not have a nervous system therefore they use what?
specific growth factors (auxins)
plant growth factors are more descriptive, why?
- Affect growth- Are made by cells located throughout the plant (not organs)- Produced in small quantities- Affect tissues close by and sometimes tissues they released from
What is the main growth factor in plants?
.The hormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) – growth factor causing cell elongation
What is scientific research?
- Observe and try to explain it using prior knowledge2. Formulate a hypothesis that can be tested experimentally
Darwin’s Evidence for Tropisms: obersvation, hypothesis, and experiment
- Observation: Grasses grown always tilted towards the window2. Hypothesis: Light (stimuli) is detected by the tip of the shoot, leads to tilting response3. Experiment: 5 plants in different conditions, one normal, one with the tip removed, one with the tip covered by an opaque cap, one with the tip covered by a transparent cap, one with base covered by opaque shield, light faced them all in same direction. Only the normal, tip covered by transparent cap and base covered by opaque shield plants bent towards the light. Also the control plant showed smaller cells on the illuminated side and longer ones on the shaded side. This suggested that light affected the tip, causing it to bend towards the light by growing the shaded cells.
Some scientists went on to hypothesis that the response that darwin found in the plants phototropism was a result of:
a. A chemical produced in the tipb. A electrical signal in the tip
What did boysen-jensen do?
Used two different materials to suggest whether phototropisms used a chemical or electrical signalThey took three plants, with the first they placed a thin barrier of mica on the illuminated side, with the second they placed a thin barrier of mica on the shaded side, and with the third they removed the tip and put a gelatin lock on top then put the tip on top of that. The first plant bent towards the light, he second didn’t, but the third did. This suggested it was chemicals on the shaded side coming from the tip which allowed the growth towards the light.
WHat is Mica?
an electrical conductor that does not allow chemical to diffuse through it
What is gelatin?
conducts chemicals but not electricity
What was Arpad Paal’s experiment?
The tips of two plants were removed then placed back on, but displaced to the side (one each way). It was found that the shoots bend towards the side where no tip is present.
There are two main divisions of the nervous system, what are they?
Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
What makes up the CNS?
.Brain.Spinal cord
What makes up the PNS?
.Pairs of nerves from the CNS travelling to limbs and organs – sensory neuron, motor neuron
How are the CNS and PNS similar?
- Both carry electrical message
WHat is the PNS and what does it do?
.Pairs of nerves from the CNS travelling to limbs and organs.Relays messages from the CNS to the effector
What are the two main divisions of the PNS?
somatic, autonomic
WHat is somatic?
(voluntary) nervous system, conscious and involves the brain
What is autonomic?
(involuntary) nervous system, subconscious – reflex arc
What are reflexes?
Involuntary responses to a stimuli
The importance of reflexes?
.Safety/protection.Immediate (fast).Innate (not learnt).Prevent the brain from being overworked by not involving the conscious part.Automatic (unconscious)
Why are reflexes good?
.The brain can focus on complex behaviours.Escape predators, gain food or mates
what are Reflex Arcs?
The pathway of neurons involved in a reflex action
Key structures of reflex arc
.Stimuli.Sensory neuron.Motor neuron.Effector.Relay/intermediate neuron.Spinal cord.Receptor
Define the key structures of the reflex arc
Stimuli The external or internal environmental changeSensory neuron The neuron which carries the signal from the receptor to the intermediate neuronMotor neuron The neuron which carries the signal from the spinal cord to the effectorEffector The muscle or gland which is stimulated to respondRelay/intermediate neuron Links the message between the sensory and motor neuronsSpinal cord The part of the CNSReceptor Receives the stimuli
What is a receptor?
.Any structure able to respond to a change
Key points about receptors
- Receive information and pass it to the CNS- Are specific in what they detect- Two main components for receiving information
What are the receptors two main components for receiving information?
o Sensory reception gathers information (sense organs)o Sensory perception is making sense of this information (function of the brain)
What happens to information after it has been gathered by receptors?
.Sensory information must be converted into information that the body understands.This is done by transducers (converts energy forms) .Sensory information nerve impulses.E.g. (a form of energy like heat, light or sound to action or potential)
Examples of receptors
.Pacinian corpuscle (skin).Rod and cone cells (eyes)
What does the Pacinian corpuscle respond to?
.Only responds to mechanical pressure
Where is the pacinian corpuscle found?
.Found deep in the skin:- Soles of feet- Fingers- External genitalia- Ligaments/tendons
As well as a receptor, what does the pacinian corpuscle act as?
a transducer
Describe the pacinian corpuscle
.The sensory neurone leads to a neurone ending.The neurone ending is surrounded by layers of connective tissue.This connective tissue contains blood capillaries and viscous gel, and is surrounded by a capsule