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15.1 Neurones And Nervous Coordination
What are the 2 main forms of coor...,
How does the hormonal system comm...,
How does the nervous system commu...
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15.2 The Nerve Impulse
What is the generator potential 1,
What is the resting potential 2,
What is the action potential 3
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15.3 Passage Of An Action Potential
What happens to the size of the a...,
Depolarisation definition 2,
Repolarisation definition 3
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15.4 Speed Of The Nerve Impulse
Explain the effect of myelination...,
What does a larger diameter of th...,
What is the all or nothing princi...
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15.5 Structure And Function Of Synapse
Synapse definition 1,
What is the synaptic cleft 2,
Neurotransmitters 3
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15.6 Transmission Across A Synapse
Cholinergic synapse definition 1,
Acetylcholine is made up of what 2,
Where do cholinergic synapses occ...
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15.7 Structure Of Skeletal Muscle
What are the 3 types of muscle in...,
What are the tiny muscle fibres c...,
What is the cytoplasm found in th...
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15.8 Contraction Of Skeletal Muscle
Explain what is meant by antagoni...,
How do antagonist muscles work 2,
What is the sliding filament mech...
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14.1 survival and response
Stimulus definition 1,
Taxis definition 2,
Kinesis definition 3
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14.2 pant growth factors
What is it called when something ...,
What is it called when something ...,
What is it called when something ...
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14.3 a reflex arc
What is the central nervous syste...,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...
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14.4 receptors
What do corpuscles respond to 1,
Features of sensory neurones 2,
What is a transducer 3
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14.5 control of heart rate
What is the involuntary subconsci...,
What is the sympathetic nervous s...,
What is the parasympathic nervous...
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16.1 principles of homeostasis
What is homeostasis 1,
Explain the importance of homeost...,
Explain how control mechanisms wo...
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16.2 feedback mechanisms
Explain what negative feedback is 1,
Explain why negative feedback is ...,
Explain the advantage of having s...
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16.3 hormones and the regulation of blood glucose concentration
Outline the factors which influen...,
Explain the role of insulin in re...,
Explain the role of glucagon in r...
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16.4 diabetes and its control
Describe type 1 diabetes 1,
Describe type 2 diabetes 2,
Explain how type 1 diabetes can b...
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16.5 control of blood water potential- structure of the neuphron
Fibrous capsule 1,
Cortex 2,
Medulla 3
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16.6 role of the nephron in osmoregulation
Describe ultrafiltration and the ...,
Adaptations of the proximal convo...,
Explain reabsorption of water by ...
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16.7 role of hormones in osmoregulation
Explain how water potential of th...,
Explain how water potential of th...,
A rise in solute concentration lo...
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