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Photosynthesis
What is the equation for photosyn...,
What is photosynthesis an example of,
What is a metabolic pathway
42
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Respiration
Where does aerobic respiration ta...,
What are the 4 parts of the mitoc...,
What is a co enzyme
45
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Energy transfer in ecosystems
What is an ecosystem,
What is biomass,
How is energy transferred through...
21
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Farming
What do food webs and food chains...,
What is each stage in a food chai...,
What is the role of decomposers
10
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Nutrient cycles
What are saprobionts,
What are saprobionts a type of an...,
What can saprobionts also do
39
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Fertilisers and eutrophication
What causes a loss of nutrients,
What is the purpose of fertilisers,
What are the two types of fertiliser
10
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Survival and reponse
How do organisms increase their c...,
What is a stimulus,
What are two types of simple resp...
6
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Nervous communication
What are receptors,
What does a baroreceptor detect,
What are receptors specific to
15
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Responses in plants
What is a tropism,
How do plants respond to stimuli,
What is a positive tropism
24
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Receptors
What are receptors,
What do receptors in the nervous ...,
What are the three potentials of ...
38
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Control of heart rate
What are the two parts to the ner...,
What is the central nervous syste...,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...
33
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Neurones
When the membrane is at its resti...,
What does polarised mean,
What is the voltage across the me...
36
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Synaptic transmission
What is a synapse,
What is a synaptic cleft,
What is a presynaptic neurone
31
cards
Muscle structure
What are three types of muscle,
What is cardiac muscle,
What is smooth muscle
34
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Muscle contraction
What is the structure of a myosin...,
What is the structure of an actin...,
What protein is found between act...
49
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Homeostasis basics
What is homeostasis,
What does homeostasis keep constant,
Why is it important to maintain t...
21
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Control of blood glucose concentration
What is the normal concentration ...,
What monitors the concentration o...,
When does blood glucose rise
36
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Diabetes and blood glucose concentration
What is diabetes,
What are the two types of diabetes,
What happens in type 1 diabetes
16
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The kidneys
How does blood enter the kidneys,
What is ultrafiltration,
What substances are reabsorbed in...
25
cards
Controlling blood water potential
How is water lost,
What is osmoregulation,
What happens when the water poten...
17
cards
Genetic terms
What is a gene,
What is an allele,
What is a locus
10
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Genetic diagrams - simple monohybrid crosses
What do diploid organisms have,
What are gametes,
What are genetic diagrams used for
10
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Linkage
What is sex linkage,
Which chromosome are most genes f...,
Why do males express the characte...
12
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Epistasis
What is epistasis,
What will the phenotypic ratio be...,
What does there need to be for ep...
5
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Chi-squared test
What would the null hypothesis be...,
When do you use a chi squared test,
How do you calculate the expected...
7
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Hardy Weinberg principle
What is a species,
What is a population,
What is a gene pool
7
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Speciation and genetic drift
What is speciation,
When does speciation occur,
What does reproductively isolated...
22
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Ecosystems
What is an ecosystem,
What are biotic conditions,
What are some examples of biotic ...
11
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Variation in population size and investigating populations
What is a population,
What is a community,
What is population size
11
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Succession
What does a dynamic ecosystem mean,
What is succession,
Generally what happens at each st...
24
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Mutations and mutagenic agents
What is a mutation,
What can mutations be caused by,
What can increase the rate of mut...
10
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Cancer
What are acquired mutations,
What is a tumour,
How can acquired mutations cause ...
24
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Interpreting data on cancer
What is a risk factor,
What are the two types of risk fa...,
What are genetic risk factors
7
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Stem cells
What are stem cells,
What are the different types of s...,
What are totipotent stem cells
13
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Stem cells in medicine
What can bone marrow transplants ...,
What do the stem cells inserted i...,
What has bone marrow transports b...
19
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Regulation of transcription and translation
What are transcription factors,
Where are promoters found,
What are promoters
17
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Epigenetic control of gene expression
What is epigenetics,
What does epigenetic control dete...,
What are epigenetic changes a res...
23
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Genome projects
What is a genome,
What is a proteome,
What do you use to sequence the g...
5
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Making DNA fragments
What does recombinant dna technol...,
How is recombinant dna technology...,
What are the three ways you can p...
18
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Amplifying DNA fragments
What are the two ways to amplify ...,
What is in vivo cloning,
What is in vitro cloning
32
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Recombinant DNA technology
What is genetic engineering,
What is recombinant dna technology,
How do plants become transformed
15
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Gene therapy
What is gene therapy,
What is the treatment if there ar...,
What is the treatment if there is...
10
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Gene probes and medical diagnosis
What are dna probes 3 mark answer,
What are the two most common type...,
How is radioactivity detected
10
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Genetic fingerprinting
What is genetic fingerprinting,
What are vntrs also known as,
What are short tandem repeats
21
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Further reading (essay)
What is the 5 carbon compound int...
1
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