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B1 GCSE keywords Flashcards

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1
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All the chemical reactions going on in cells

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Metabolism

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Cell specialised to carry electrical impulses. Nerve cells.

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Neurone

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Carrying out a process, such as producing food, with the minimum loss of energy.

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Efficiency

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The amount of useful product e.g. crop from plants.

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Yield

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A way of showing what organisms eat, showing the flow of energy from one organism to the next.

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Food chain

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Change in the structure of a gene. This may results in a different characteristic being developed.

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Mutation

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Organ such as a gland or muscle that responds to a stimulus.

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Effector

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The survival of organisms better adapted to their environment.

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Natural selection

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The brain and spinal cord.

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Central nervous system (CNS)

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Testing a drug to make sure it works and has no harmful side effects.

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Clinical trial

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Scientific equipment that enables pollution levels to be monitored e.g. pH meters.

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Non-living indicators

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Microscopic organism such as bacteria or fungi.

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Microbe

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Being very overweight

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Obese

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The number of organisms of a species in a given area.

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Population

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Dummy pill or treatment with NO active drug in it.

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Placebo

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Chemical reaction in plants that builds glucose from carbon dioxide and water, using sunlight energy.

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Photosynthesis

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The ability some bacteria develop meaning that an antibiotic will not kill them anymore.

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Antibiotic resistance

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Organ or part of the body that responds to a particular hormone.

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Target organ

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A female sex hormone involved in regulating the menstrual cycle.

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Oestrogen

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The body becomes dependent on a drug and will not function properly without it.

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Addiction

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Your body?s system that fights infections, involving white blood cells and antibodies.

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Immune system

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Release of a mature egg from an ovary.

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Ovulation

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Clinical trial in which neither the patients nor the doctors know whether they are getting the real treatment or a placebo.

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Double blind trial

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Taking part of a plant and making new plants by asexual reproduction.

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Cuttings

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A substance that prevents conception (getting pregnant).

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Contraception

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Sudden outbreak of a disease that affects many people within a country.

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Epidemic

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A plants response to the pull of gravity. Roots grow towards it, and sshoots grow away from it.

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Geotropic

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Hormones produced in the sex organs (ovaries and testes).

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Sex hormones

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20
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Chemical that carries the genetic code.

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DNA

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Changing an organism?s genes to give it desirable characteristics.

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Genetic modification

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Weedkiller.

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Herbicide

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Chemical sprayed onto crop plants to kill pests such as insects.

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Pesticide

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Fertilisation carried out outside the body, so the egg and sperm join in a glass dish to form an embryo that is injected back into the women?s uterus.

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In vitro fertilisation (IVF)

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If you are addicted to a drug, when you stop taking it you get unpleasant symptoms such as pain and tremors.

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Withdrawal symptoms

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Fast automatic response of the body to a potentially dangerous stimulus, coordinated by the spinal cord.

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Reflex action

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Small gap between neurones, or between a neurone and effector.

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Synapse

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25
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A female sex hormone, involved in making eggs mature in the ovaries.

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FSH

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Single-celled microorganism, 1-5 ?m long. They do not have DNA enclosed inside a nucleus

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Bacteria

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Segment of DNA that codes for a particular characteristic or protein.

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Gene

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27
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Reproduction without gametes/sex cells, using mitosis.

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Asexual reproduction

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Charged particle, e.g. Na+, K+, Mg+.

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Ion

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29
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A process by which microbes break down dead bodies or waste.

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Decay

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30
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A plant hormone that causes shoots and roots to bend.

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Auxin

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A female sex hormone involved in maintaining the uterus lining.

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Progesterone

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Substance put into the environment by human activity, which is not normally there.

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Pollutant

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Indicator species scientists have learnt to use to help measure pollution levels e.g. lichens.

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Living indicators

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Structure inside an organism that makes a useful substance, often a hormone.

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Gland

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Reproduction involving the joining of gametes from two parents.

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Sexual reproduction

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A process by which carbon moves between the living and non-living world and back again.

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Carbon cycle

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Something that an organism needs to survive e.g. food, space, water.

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Resource

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Adaptation of a cactus to have leaves with reduced surface area and pointed ends.

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Spines

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Drug used as a sleeping pill and for morning sickness without clinical trials. It caused birth defects with thousands on new babies.

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Thalidomide

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Feature of the body that helps an organism survive.

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Adaptation

43
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Diet that has the right amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, water and fibre, and gives you enough energy

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Balanced diet

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Species that survive best at certain levels of pollution, and give an idea of the pollution level e.g. rat tailed maggot.

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Indicator species

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Special protein in the body that can bind to a particular antigen and destroy a particular pathogen.

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Antibody

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Structure in a cell nucleus that consist of one molecule of DNA that has condensed.

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Chromosome

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Cell or sense organ that detects stimuli.

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Receptor

50
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A drug used illegally by some athletes to help improve their performance in competition e.g. steroids.

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Performance enhancing drugs

50
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The scientist who came up with the theory of evolution through natural selection.

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Darwin

51
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Produce a hormone in special cells of a gland.

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Secrete

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Change in the environment, such as a temperature change, that you respond to.

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Stimulus

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The struggle between organisms to get enough resources to survive.

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Competition

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The scientist who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics e.g. the giraffes? stretched neck.

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Lamarck

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Special protein on the surface of pathogenic cells. Bind matching antibodies during the immune response.

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Antigen

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A way of showing the biomass of organisms at each link in the food chain.

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Pyramid of biomass

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Group of organisms that are similar and capable of producing fertile offspring.

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Species

60
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Biological catalyst made of protein. They speed up chemical reactions in living organisms.

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Enzyme

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Monthly cycle in adult females.

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Menstrual cycle

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Chemical that alters the way your brain or body works.

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Drug

65
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How quickly all the reactions are going on in cells

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Metabolic rate

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Genetically identical organisms.

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Clones

67
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After you have made antibodies to a pathogen, you are able to fight off the pathogen in future without getting ill.

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Immunity

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Chemical added to soil to improve mineral content and promote plant growth.

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Fertiliser

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Plant growth response to a stimulus.

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Tropism

70
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A female sex hormone involved in triggering ovulation.

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LH

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Method of cloning for animals. A fertilised embryo is split so up so each cell can develop into a new individual.

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Embryo transplant

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A drug used for medical purposes only, e.g. antibiotics, statins.

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Medicinal drug

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Changing an organism?s genes by inserting a gene from another organism.

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Genetic engineering

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The ability to do work in the body to maintain life.

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Energy

76
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Poison

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Toxin

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Plant adaptation of having reduced leaves with small surface area.

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Needles

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Chemical reaction in living organisms that releases energy from glucose, producing water and carbon dioxide.

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Respiration

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Chemical, usually made by fungi or bacteria, that can be used as medicine to kill other fungi or bacteria.

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Antibiotic

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Drug that stops you feeling pain e.g. paracetamol.

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Painkiller

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Gradual change in an organism over time.

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Evolution

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The colouring of an animal that allows it to blend in with its surroundings.

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Camouflage

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A drug taken for pleasure with no medicinal purpose e.g. caffeine, nicotine, alcohol.

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Recreational drug

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Chemical made by a gland and carried in the blood to its target organ(s).

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Hormone

87
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Very infectious pathogen. Can only reproduce inside a host cell

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Virus

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Medicinal drugs that reduce the amount of cholesterol made by the body

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Statins

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Nerves carrying information from sense organs in the body to the CNS, and from the CNS to effectors.

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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Plants response to the direction of light. Shoots grow towards it, and roots grow away from it.

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Phototropic

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Epidemic that sweeps across continents or the whole world.

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Pandemic

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The location where species are found over the total area where they occur. E.g. woodlice have a high distribution under a log.

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Distribution

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Sex cells e.g. sperm and egg. They have half the normal amount of chromosomes.

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Gametes

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A microorganism that can cause an infectious disease

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Pathogen

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Growing whole new plants from small groups of cells taken from one plant.

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Tissue culture

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Small organisms, seen under a microscope e.g. bacteria and viruses

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Microorganism

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Organisms that can withstand extreme environmental conditions e.g. thermophiles can withstand extreme temperatures.

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Extremophiles

100
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How you feel when you have a disease e.g. headache, nausea

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Symptoms

101
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Disease caused by not eating enough of a particular nutrient e.g. Scurvy from too little vitamin C

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Deficiency disease

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Major subdivision in the classification of living organisms, e.g. plant kingdom.

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Kingdom

104
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Medical procedure that involves injecting dead or inactive pathogens into a patient to stimulate the body to create antibodies.

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Immunisation

105
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Sorting organisms into groups (e.g. kingdoms) according to their characteristics.

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Classification

106
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The total amount of the surface of an organism or part of an organism.

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Surface area

107
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Removing the nucleus from an unfertilised egg and replacing it with the nucleus from another cell taken from an adult organism. The new cell can develop into a new organism.

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Adult cell cloning

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