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13.1 Coordination
In what two ways do animals react...,
Define homeostasis 2,
What is cell signalling and how d...
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13.2 Neurones
Whats a stimulus 1,
Whats a neurone 2,
Whats the role of a neurone 3
18
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13.3 Sensory receptors
What do chemoreceptors detect 1,
What do thermoreceptors detect 2,
What do mechanoreceptors detect 3
13
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13.4 Nervous transmission
Whats action potential 1,
Whats the resting potential 2,
What determines the resting poten...
14
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13.5 Synapses
What is a synapse 1,
As electrical impulses cannot pas...,
What are the neurones before and ...
12
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13.6 Organisation of the nervous system
What are the two main divisions o...,
What s the cns made up of 2,
What s the pns made up of 3
11
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13.7 Structure and function of the brain
What does the cerebrum do 1,
What does the hypothalamus do 2,
What does the cerebellum do 3
22
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13.8 Reflexes
What s a reflex action 1,
Whys the reflex arc quicker 2,
What s the order of the reflex arc 3
16
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13.9 Voluntary and involuntary muscles
What are the 3 types of muscle 1,
What are skeletal muscles like 2,
What are cardiac muscles like 3
20
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13.10 Sliding filament model
Describe the changes that occur t...,
Describe the structure of myosin 2,
Describe the structure of actin 3
10
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14.1 Hormonal communication
What is a hormone 1,
What s an endocrine gland 2,
What s the function of the pineal...
22
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14.2 Structure and function of the pancreas
What are the two main functions o...,
What s an exocrine gland 2,
What s an endocrine gland 3
8
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14.3 Regulation of blood glucose concentration
What are the processes of decreas...,
What are the processes of increas...,
What s gluconeogenesis 3
15
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14.4 Diabetes and its control
What does having diabetes mean 1,
What are common symptoms of diabe...,
What is hyperglycaemia and what c...
12
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14.5 Coordinated responses
Which part of the nervous system ...,
How does the hypothalamus bring a...,
What physiological changes occur ...
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14.6 Controlling heart rate
Which part of the nervous system ...,
What do the two centres in the me...,
What are baroreceptors and how do...
13
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15.1 The principles of homeostasis
Define homeostasis 1,
What is negative feedback how doe...,
What s positive feedback and give...
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15.2 Thermoregulation in ecotherms
Behavioural responses of ectother...,
Physiological responses to thermo...,
What issue do ectotherms face whe...
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15.3 Thermoregulation in endotherms
Characteristics of endotherms 1,
How do endotherms detect a temper...,
Physiological adaptions of endoth...
13
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15.4 Excretion, homeostasis and the liver
What occurs in detoxification 1,
Define excretion 2,
What s egestion 3
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15.5 The structure and function of the mammalian kidney
What does the renal artery carry 1,
What does the renal vein carry 2,
What does the ureter carry 3
22
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15.6 The kidney and osmoregulation
Describe the mechanism of adh act...,
What s osmoregulation 2,
What does adh control 3
4
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15.7 Urine and diagnosis
Why is urine well suited for diag...,
What is immunoassay 2,
Outline the process of pregnancy ...
8
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15.8 Kidney failure
What are the causes of kidney fai...,
What are the effects of infection...,
What are the effects of kidney fa...
16
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16.1 Plant hormones and growth in plants
What roles do auxins have in plan...,
What roles do gibberellins have i...,
What roles do ethene have in plan...
17
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16.2 Plant responses to abiotic stress
What are examples of abiotic stre...,
What is photoperiodism and what c...,
How does abscission help a plant ...
7
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16.3 Plant responses to herbivory
What are the physical defences of...,
What are the chemical defences of...,
How to tannins defend plant 3
7
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16.4 Tropisms in plants
What are plant tropisms 1,
What is the growth of plants in r...,
Whats the growth of plants in res...
13
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16.5 The commercial uses of plant hormones
How can weedkiller be made using ...,
Whats the commercial use of ethene 2,
How can auxins act as rooting pow...
7
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17.1 Energy & ATP
What are the uses of energy atp 1,
What s the three parts of the flo...,
What happens at the light compens...
15
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17.2 Chloroplasts
How is granum adapted for its fun...,
What are thylakoid membrane 2,
What shape is chloroplast dna and...
16
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17.3 Photosynthesis
What are pigment molecules 1,
After absorbing light energy to w...,
Why may a plant contain accessory...
36
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17.4 Factors affecting photosynthesis
How does light intensity affect g...,
How does temperature affect gp gl...,
How does co2 concentration affect...
13
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18.1Glycolysis
What happens in glycolysis 1,
Outline the process of glycolysis 2,
Why type of phosphorylation is gl...
6
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18.2 Linking glycolysis and the Krebs cycle
What s the role of the link react...,
Where does the link reaction take...,
Outline the process of the link r...
15
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18.3 The Krebs cycle
Outline the process during the ke...,
How many products are produced du...,
What s a coenzyme 3
8
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18.4 Oxidative Phosphoylation
What is oxidative phosphorylation 1,
Where does oxidative phosphorylat...,
Outline the processes which occur...
7
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18.5 Anaerobic respiration
Define anaerobic respiration 1,
What are the different categories...,
Benefits of being able to respire...
19
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18.6 Respiratory substrates
What are respiratory substrates 1,
What apparatus is used to measure...,
What s the formula for respirator...
8
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