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  • How does adrenaline effect the body
    Breathing rate - increases
    ATP production- increases
    Blood flow to digestive system- decreases
  • Describe relationship between the circulatory system and the gas exchange system in the human body
    Veins transport blood to heart from gaseous exchange
    Left side receives blood from gaseous exchange
  • How are phloem sieve tubes adapted to their function
    Have holes in less cytoplasm
    Allow easier transport of sugar
  • Apparatus to investigate the rate of water uptake in plants
    Potometer
  • Air tight seals stops air getting into water filled tube in the potometer why?
    Air will stop the plant taking up water
  • Potometer
    What happens to the rate of uptake of water is a electric fan is switched on next to it
    Increase the air movement
  • Why glycerol is important
    Needed to make lipids
  • What reaction is photosynthesis
    Endothermic
  • Importance of sugars in the production of larger carbohydrates such at starch
    Sugars are the monomers that make up carbohydrates
  • Why does a light intensity photosynthesis graph level off
    Light intensity is no longer the limiting factor
  • Anaerobic respiration in yeast experiment
    How could you improve the investigation to obtain more precise results
    Measure the gas volume and use a water bath
  • Anaerobic respiration in yeast
    How could you use the apparatuses to find the effect of concentration on the rate of anaerobic respiration
    Change the concentration of glucose
    Same temp
  • Products of human respiratation
    Lactic acid
  • Where is amylase released
    Salivary glands
  • Protease
    Protein into amino acid
    Small intestine and pancreas and stomach
  • Lipase
    Turns Lipids into glycerol and fatty acids
    Small intestine and pancreas
  • What do organisms need energy for
    Construction - respiration
    Homeostatis
  • What does cellulose help

    Structure of a cell wall
  • Light intensity equation
    Light intensity at the source/ distance ²
  • What is metabolism
    Sum of all chemical reactions
  • Osmosis experiment
    Cut discs of raw potato and measure masses
    Put the discs in the different concentrations of sugar or salt solution
    After 30 mins measure mass
  • How to calculate percentage change in mass
    Final - initial mass
    Then that answer divide by initials mass x100
  • Dependent and independent variable

    Dependent- tested or measured
    Independent - being changed
  • Active transport in humans example
    Sugar absorption
    In guts
    Respiration of cells
  • Active transport in plants
    Mineral absorption in the roots
  • What do specialised surfaces do
    Maximise effect of gas and solute exchange across them
  • Examples of specialised surfaces
    Large surface area
    Thin membrane
    Blood supply
    Ventilation
  • Stem cells examples
    Plant meristems
    Bone marrow
    Embryos
  • What are stem cells used for
    Plant meristems- growth and repair
    Bones marrow- replace dying cells- fewer cell types
    Embryos- differentiate to most cells
  • Used of stem cells
    Treatment- replace damaged cells in the body
    Plant clones- protect species
    Therapeutic cloning - same dna
  • Tissues examples
    Epithelial tissue- contact with outside world
    Muscular tissue (animals)- contract to bring about force and motion
    Mesophyll(plants)- photosynthesis
    Epidermal tissue- skin or waxy covering
  • Stomach organs
    Muscular tissue- moves the contents of stomach around in digestion
    Glandular tissue- break down the stomachs contents
    Epithelial tissue - lines the stomach
  • Digestions system organs
    Glands( pancreas or salivary glands) -produce digestives juices
    Stomach - digested food
    Liver- produces bile
    Small intestine- digests and absorbs soluble food molecules
    Large intestine - absorbs water molecules and remaining undigested food - poo
  • Levels of organisation
    Cell
    Tissue
    Organ
    Organ system
    Organism
  • Sperm
    cells
    Head- nucleus
    Acrosome- tip of head- penetrate egg cell
    Middle - mitochondria
    Tail- Travel motion
  • Nerve cell
    Axon-electrical signal travel- long to increase distance
    Myelin sheath- surrounds the cell- stop leaks- increase speed
    Dendrites- branches of a nerve cell- transfer electrical messages to other neurons
  • Muscle cells
    Mitochondria- motion
    Protein fibres- contract allowing movement
  • Root hair cells
    No chloroplasts
    Long projections
  • Xylem
    Transport water - dead cells
    Osmosis- Ligin- strengthens cell wall
  • Phloem
    Transport food - sucrose
    Active transport
    Living cells