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The Nervous System
What is the central nervous system,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...,
What does the somatic nervous sys...
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Muscles
Features of cardiac muscle cells,
Why do cardiac muscle cells form ...,
Features of smooth muscle contrac...
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Muscle Contraction
What theory explains how muscle c...,
Muscle contraction step 1,
Muscle contraction step 2
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Receptors
What are sensory receptors,
Features of specialised cells,
What does the pacinian corpuscle ...
4
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Neuromuscular Junction
What happens when an action poten...,
What happens when an action poten...,
What happens when an action poten...
9
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Neurones and Resting Potential
What is the role of the sensory n...,
What is the role of the relay neu...,
What is the role of the motor neu...
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Transmission of Action Potentials
How do action potentials occur in...,
How do action potentials occur in...,
Name 3 factors affecting transmis...
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Cholinergic synapse
At a cholinergic synapse what is ...,
Cholinergic synapse stage 1 depol...,
Cholinergic synapse stage 2 post ...
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Action Potentials
1 depolarisation of a neurone,
2 if depolarisationreaches the th...,
3 repolarisation of a neurone
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Anaerobic Respiration
Where does respiration occur,
What does respiration do,
What is the energy released in re...
10
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Biomass
What do plants use to synthesise ...,
What are sugars synthesised by pl...,
Define biomass
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Production and Productivity
What is gross primary production gpp,
What is net primary production npp,
What is the npp available for use as
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Succession
What is primary succession,
Describe the first stage of prima...,
What is secondary succession
6
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Microorganisms in Nutrient Cycles
Mycorrhizae,
Free living nitrogen fixingbacteria,
Mutualistic nitrogen fixingbacteria
6
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Ecosystems and Population Size
Define community,
Define ecosystem,
Explain specific ecological niche
9
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Conservation
What is conservation,
What is preservation,
Principle of maintaining sustaina...
14
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Populations
Define a species,
Define a population,
Define a gene pool
5
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Photosynthesis
Define photosynthesis,
Where does the light dependent re...,
Light dependent stage step 1 phot...
15
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Aerobic Respiration
In aerobic respiration how does p...,
What happens after the pyruvate e...,
Summerise the link reaction
20
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Cloning Animals
Name 3 types of animal cloning,
Describe embryo twinning,
Describe somatic cell nuclear tra...
7
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Cloning Plants
Define vegetative propagation,
Parts of a plant used in vegetati...,
Define micropropagation
5
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Control of Blood Glucose Concentration
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Diabetes
What is diabetes,
What are the outcomes of diabetes,
What is hyperglycaemia
7
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Communication Systems
Name the 2 types of communication...,
Describe the neuronal system,
Describe the effects of the neuro...
10
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Homeostasis
Define homeostasis,
Describe a negative feedback system,
Describe a positive feedback system
7
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Immobilised Enzymes
What are immobilised enzymes,
How can enzymes be immobilised,
Advantages of immobilised enzymes
7
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Eukaryotic Cells
What cells are eukaryotic cells,
Describe the roll of the cell sur...,
Describe the roll of the nucleus
15
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Prokaryotic Cells
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Water
List 9 properties of water,
Why is liquid medium a useful pro...,
Why is important metabolite a use...
10
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Methods of Studying Cells
Name the 3 types of microscope,
Define magnification,
Magnification formula
9
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Monomers & Polymers
Define monomers,
Define polymers,
What are condensation reactions
4
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Lipids
What are fatty acids,
Saturated fatty acids,
Unsaturated fatty acids
7
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Inorganic Ions
Define inorganic ions,
What are cations,
What are anions
11
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Carbohydrates
What are monosaccharides,
Example monosaccharides,
What are ribose sugars
14
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Biochemical Tests
Test for reducing sugars,
What are reducing sugars,
Test for non reducing sugars
8
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Proteins
What monomer units make proteins,
How many naturally occurring amin...,
How do naturally occurring amino ...
17
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Globular proteins
Globular proteins shape,
Globular proteins solubility,
Typical roles of globular proteins
6
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Fibrous proteins
Fibrous proteins structure,
Fibrous proteins solubility,
Collagen
8
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DNA and RNA
Dna and rna are both,
The basic structure of a nucleoti...,
Number of strands dna vs rna
7
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ATP
The structure of atp,
Reaction atp to adp,
Reaction adp to atp
6
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Enzymes
What are enzymes,
How do enzymes increase the rate ...,
What is the lock and key model
3
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DNA Double Helix & Replication
What are polynucleotides,
Dna structure,
How many bonds between the bases
6
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Genetic Information
Dna in prokaryotic cells,
Dna in eukaryotic cells,
What is the genome
9
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Protein synthesis
Trna structure,
What does transcription do,
Describe transcription
6
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Cell membranes
Cell membrane job,
What is the cell membrane compris...,
Glycolipids and glycoproteins job...
7
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Passive transport
Describe passive transport,
Describe diffusion,
Describe facilitated diffusion
7
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Active transport
Define active transport,
What is bulk transport,
What is endocytosis
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Mitosis
Products of mitosis,
Mitosis is used for,
Mitosis cell cycle
20
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Specialised cells
How are erythrocytes specialised,
What are erythrocytes,
How are neutrophils specialised
13
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Gas exchange
Single celled organisms and gas e...,
Smaller insects and gas exchange,
Larger insects and gas exchange
6
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Meiosis
Products of meiosis,
Meiosis 1 diagram,
Meiosis 2 diagram
14
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Surface area to Volume ratio
Bigger organisms have __________ ...,
Why do larger organisms require s...,
Typical characteristics of a spec...
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Stem cellls
What are stem cells,
Stem cells undergo differentiatio...,
Fully developed cells are unable ...
10
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Disease
Communicable disease definition,
Direct pathogen transmission exam...,
Indirect pathogen transmission ex...
8
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Cell-mediated Immunity
Describe the process of cell medi...,
What is cell mediated immunity
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Primary & Secondary Response
What is the primary immune response,
What is the secondary immune resp...,
See a diagram showing immune resp...
3
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Human Gas Exchange System
What is the surface of the lungs ...,
How are the alveolar epithelium a...,
Define ventilation
13
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Mass Transport in Animals
How do red blood cells transport ...,
Hemoglobin structure,
Haemoglobin saturation depends on
15
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Plant Responses & Hormones
What are tropisms,
Examples of tropisms,
Where does plant growth occur
17
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Mutations
Define a gene mutation,
When do gene mutations occur,
What is a mutagenic agent
14
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Water transport in plants
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Defences
Examples of human primary defence...,
Examples of plant passive defence...,
Examples of plant active defences...
7
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Vaccination and medicines
Define a vaccine,
How do vaccines work,
What is herd immunity
14
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The heart
Define the cardiac cycle,
What is systole,
What is diastole
22
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Components of the immune systems
What are antigens,
What type of cell are macrophages...,
Function of phagocytes
13
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Humoral immunity
What is the humoral response,
Describe the process of humoral i...,
Describe the process of humoral i...
3
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Biodiversity
Define biodiversity,
Name 3 types of biodiversity,
Define habitat diversity
21
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Classification
What is the biological species co...,
What is the classification,
Classifi cation hierarchy compris...
15
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Natural selection
Why may organisms not survive and...,
What is intraspecific competition,
What is the principle of evolutio...
9
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Variation
What is interspecific variation,
What is intraspecific variation,
What are polygenic characteristics
10
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Kidney failure
How is kidney failure diagnised,
Treatments of kidney failure,
2 types of renal dialysis
8
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Control of Temperature
Why control internal temperature,
What are ectotherms,
When cold ectotherms
10
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Transcription factors
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Genes and alleles
What is an organisms genotype,
What is an organisms phenotype,
What impacts an organisms phenotype
11
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Monohybrid inheritance
What is monohybrid inheritance
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Dihybrid inheritance
What is dihybrid inheritance,
F1 generation dihybrid cross invo...,
After the f1 generation dihybrid ...
3
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Linkage
When does autosomal linkage occur,
Why are linked genes more likely ...,
What does sex linkage occur
4
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Epistasis
What is epistasis,
Epiststic genes can work ________...,
What is an epistatic gene
7
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Chi-squared test
What is the purpose of the chi sq...,
What does the o represent in the ...,
What does the e represent in the ...
7
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Microorganisms
Describe a closed culture,
Describe the phases shown in a ba...,
How are primary metabolites made
10
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Electrophoresis
What is electrophoresis,
Describe how electrophoresis is c...,
What do microarrays do in electro...
4
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
What is polymerase chain reaction...,
Pcr step 1,
Pcr step 2
5
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Disease COPY
Communicable disease definition,
Direct pathogen transmission exam...,
Indirect pathogen transmission ex...
8
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