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How is somthing efficient for gas exchange?

A

Permeable, thin, large surface area to volume ratio

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What are problems withChemical pesticides?

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Can effect other species of organism, resistance

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What is the gas that causes acid rain?

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Sulfur dioxide

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Why do cells store glycogen not glucose?

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Glucose dissolves

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What way is a structure of an artery different to a veins?

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  • thicker wall

- narrower lumen

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How is villi adapted to absorb small molecules?

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Large surface area to volume ratio
Thin- shorter diffusion difference
Permeable

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7
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Properties of bacteria?

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Cell wall, chloroplast, nucleus

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Properties of fungi?

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Cell wall, nucleus

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9
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Properties of viruses?

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Chloroplast

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10
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What is Assimilation?

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Small food molecules used to build large molecules

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What is Excretion?

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Removal of waste products that have been absorbed

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12
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What does Benedict’s solution test for?

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Glucose

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What is meant by the term gas exchange?

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Taking in one gas (oxygen) and producing another (carbon dioxide)

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What is meant by the term mutation?

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Change in genetic code resulting in the change of proteins

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15
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2 biotic factors?

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Availability of food
Predictors
Disease

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16
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2 abiotic factors?

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Pesticides

Temperature

17
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What organism makes antibiotics?

A

Fungi

18
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What is killed by antibiotics?

A

Bacteria

19
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What is meant by trophic level?

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Stage of food chain

20
Q

Why does energy decrease up pyramid?

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Loss of energy through heat in respiration, failure to consume whole animal, egestion

21
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What is osmoregulation?

A

Control of water content

22
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Where are things absorbed into to the kidneys?

A

Glomerus

23
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How does selective reabsorption happen?

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Active transport

24
Q

How do plants absorb water and transfer to leaves

A

Osmosis
Root hair cells
Xylem

25
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What does the phloem do?

A

Transport sugars

26
Q

What is an example of bacteria?

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Ecoli

27
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What is an example of a protoctist?

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Yeast

28
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How does virus differ from bacterium?

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Virus has a protein coat

29
Q

What happens in the gut?

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Amylase: breaks down starch➡️glucose

Absorbed into blood

30
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What is transpiration?

A

Evaporation of water from leaves surface

31
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Why is glucose returned to the blood?

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Used in respiration

Produces energy

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