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Homeostasis - homeostasis
What do enzymes require,
What do our bodies have in order ...,
What is homeostasis
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Homeostasis - the nervous system
What are the two parts of the ner...,
How do receptors send information...,
How does the cns pass on information
7
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Homeostasis - the brain
What does the brain control and how,
What is the job of the cerebral c...,
What is the job of the cerebellum
6
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Homeostasis - the eye
What is the eye,
How does the eye detect light fir...,
What is accommodation
9
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Homeostais - how the eye focuses
What is the cornea,
What is the lens surrounded by,
What do the ciliary muscles and s...
11
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Homeostasis - thermoregulation
What is the job of the thermoregu...,
What does the thermoregulatory ce...,
What does the skin contain to not...
11
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Homeostasis - The Endocrine System
What is the endocrine system,
Comparison between nervous sytem ...,
What does the pancreas release
8
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Homeostasis - control of blood glucose concentration
Why is it important to keep conce...,
What is the blood glucose concent...,
What else does insulin trigger
11
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Homeostasis - The kidney
What happens if body cells gain o...,
How does body take in food,
How does the body lose water
10
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Homeostasis - mainting the body’s water balance
What happens if the blood becomes...,
What happens when water levels in...,
What happens if blood becomes too...
9
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Homeostasis - menstrual cycle
What happens during puberty,
What hormones are produced in men...,
When hormone is produced in women
22
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Homeostasis - contraception
What is contraception,
What is a very common method of c...,
What does the pill contain
25
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Homeostasis - Hormones to treat infertility
Why do some people struggle with ...,
What happens in fertility drug,
What is another type of infertili...
6
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Homeostasis - negative feedback
Where is adrenaline released into,
What are the main effects of adre...,
What happens when heart is beatin...
8
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Homeostasis - plant hormones
What is phototropism,
What experiments were carried out...,
What did the experiments for phot...
12
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Homeostasis - uses of plant hormones
What 2 cultures are auxin giberel...,
What are the 3 main uses of auxin,
What are the main uses of gibbere...
4
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Inheritance - sexual and asexual reproduction
How many chromosomes do human cel...,
What are gametes,
Gametes in humans
11
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Inheritance - meiosis and fetilisation
What does meiosis only take place in,
What are the stages of meiosis,
How many chromosomes does meiosis...
6
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Inheritance - advantages and disadvantages of sexual/asexual reproduction
Advantages of sexual reproduction,
Asexual reproduction advantages,
Disadvantage of asexual reproduction
8
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Inheritance - DNA and the Genome
What do chromosomes contain,
What does dna determine,
What does dna consist of structure
11
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Inheritance - DNA structure
What i d dna made of,
3 main parts of a nucleotide,
What never changes in dna
8
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Inheritance - proteinsynthesis
How many amino acids are there in...,
What does the eocific order of am...,
What is the order of amino acids ...
7
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Inheritance - mutations
What is a mutation,
When do mutations happen,
Why can the shape of the protein ...
8
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Inheritance - Alleles
Where does one chromosome in the ...,
What is ear wax controlled by,
What are most characteristics con...
12
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Inheritance - cystic fibrosis
What disorder is cystic fibrosis of,
What is cystic fibrosis controlled,
What is the allele for a normal c...
9
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Inheritance - polydactyly
What do people with polydactyly have,
What is polydactyly caused by,
You can t be a _______ of the pol...
8
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Inheritance - family trees
What does a family tree only show,
Give one piece of evidence that c...
2
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Inheritance - inheritance of sex
What does one pair of the chromos...,
Male sex chromosomes,
Female sex chromosomes
4
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Ecology - competition and independance
What is the habitat,
What is population,
Animals in african grassland
14
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ecology - abiotic + biotic factors
What is availability of food,
What happens if availability of f...,
What is the arrival of a new pred...
14
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ecology - adaptations
What are camels adapted to,
What are structural adaptations,
Structural adaptations of a camel
10
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ecology - food chains and predator prey cycles
Uk food chain,
What do food chains begin with,
Why are producers in food chains ...
13
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ecology - sampling organisms
How do scientists determine numbe...,
What is random sampling used for ...,
What is a quadratic how do we use it
10
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ecology - mean, median and mode
How to calculate mean,
What are anomalous results,
Median
4
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ecology - carbon cycle
What does carbon cycle start with,
What is the only way carbon can e...,
How does carbon dioxide return ba...
7
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ecology - the water cycle
Where is almost all water on eart...,
How does water cycle work to get ...,
What do all forms of precipitatio...
4
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ecology - decomposition
What happens with compost heap,
What do farmers use the compost for,
What are the optimal conditions f...
7
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ecology - environmental change
Environmental changes temperature...,
What is seasonal variation,
What can human activity affect
3
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ecology - biodiversity
What is biodiversity,
Why is biodiversity important for...,
What does a high level of biodive...
5
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ecology - waste management
What is happening due to more hum...,
How does pollution affect water,
Waste from human activity is ____...
6
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ecology - land use
How do humans reduce amount of la...,
What do peat bogs and pest land c...,
How are peat bogs lands reducing ...
5
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ecology - global warming
What is happening to earth s temp...,
What is peer review,
What are the reports in popular m...
4
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ecology - maintaining biodiversity
How can we reduce negative effect...,
How do breeding programmes for en...,
What has happened to many wetland...
6
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ecology - trophic levels
What are herbivores,
What do carnivores eat,
What is a tertiary consumer
8
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ecology - pyramids of biomass
How can we measure the mass of al...,
Why is dry biomass better than a ...,
How much light energy that falls ...
6
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ecology - food security
What is food security,
What are the biological threats t...,
What is essential as population o...
3
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ecology - modern farming methods
How to improve the efficiency of ...,
What are free range chickens able...,
In 1960s what did farms in uk mov...
6
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ecology - sustainable fisheries
How has modern day fishing caused...,
What do trawlers use to capture fish,
Problem with trawlers
5
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ecology - role of biotechnology
How has biotechnology been used i...,
What else is genetic modification...,
What is golden rice
6
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variation and evolution - variation
What is variation,
What are the three main causes of...,
What is the genetic variation in ...
4
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variation and evolution - evolution by natural selection
What have all different species c...,
Why will every rabbit have a diff...,
How does evolution by natural sel...
5
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variation and evolution - selective breeding
Wolves,
How have domestic dogs been selec...,
How have food crops been selectiv...
7
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variation and evolution - gentic engineering
What is genetic engineering,
What is insulin,
What do people with type 1 diabet...
8
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variation and evolution - cloning plants
Advantage of cloning plants,
How are plants cloned by taking c...,
How are plants cloned to get hund...
4
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variation and evolution - cloning animals
Stages to cloning using embryo tr...,
Problem with embryo transplant so...,
Benefit of adult cell cloning
4
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variation and evolution - darwin and natural selection
What lead to darwin wondering how...,
What did darwin study,
What did darwin come up
8
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variation and evolution - speciation
Who was alfred russel wallace wha...,
What theory did wallace propose,
How are new species formed
5
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variation and evolution - Mendel and genetics
How did the work of mendel gregor...,
How did people react initially to...,
Why is it important that mendel s...
3
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variation and evolution - evidence for evolution: fossils
What are fossils,
How are fossils formed,
Problems with fossils
5
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variation and evolution - evidence for evolution: resistant bacteria
Under ideal conditions how fast c...,
When are antibiotics used,
What happens when bacteria are an...
6
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variation and evolution - classification
Who came up with classification s...,
What is the classification system...,
What is the binomial system
7
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