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Exchange Surfaces
How do singular celled organisms ...,
What are the three ways that abso...,
What does diffusion do
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1.1 Cells
What are cells,
What s the difference between ani...,
What is the function of the cell ...
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1.2 Chromosome, Genome and Migration
What is dna,
Is dna is a polymer or monomer,
What is meant by the term polymer
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1.3 DNA - Key terms
What is an example of a single ge...,
What is an example of a character...,
What is meant by the term allele
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1.4 Structure & How it codes
What is the structure of dna,
Dna is a p_______ made up of lots...,
What is a monomer made up of
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1.5 Protein Synthesis
What is mrna,
What is mrna built of,
What does mrna use instead of thy...
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1.6 Mutations
What is meant by the term mutation,
What are 2 examples of things tha...,
What are the 3 types of mutations
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1.7 Genetic Diagrams
Does a lowercase letter represent...,
Does an uppercase letter represen...,
How would you describe the genoty...
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1.8 Family Trees
What does being a carrier of a di...,
Is cystic fibrosis a dominant or ...
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1.9 Mendel
Who was gregor mendel,
What did mendel do 3,
How has our understanding of gene...
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Microscopes
What are the steps for preparing ...,
How do you look at the specimen t...,
How do we calculate the total mag...
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2.1 - Health and Disease
What are some causes of disease a...,
What is a communicable disease an...,
What are 2 examples of a communic...
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2.2 Communicable Disease 1 - Introduction
What are pathogens,
What are the 4 types of pathogens,
What are the 7 different ways tha...
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2.3 Communicable Disease 2 - Viruses
If viruses cant reproduce by them...,
What are 3 examples of viruses,
How is the measles virus spread
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2.4 Communicable Disease 3 - Bacteria
How does bacteria infect us,
What is an example of a bad bacte...,
How do we catch salmonella
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2.5 Communicable Disease 4 - Protists and Fungi
How is fungi different to plant a...,
What is an example of a unicellul...,
What is an example of a multicell...
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2.6 Plant Diseases and Defences
What are the three different cate...,
How can plants develop diseases f...,
What are some common symptoms for...
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2.7 Immuse System & Defences
What are the 4 categories that ma...,
What are the physical barriers hu...,
What are the chemical barriers hu...
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2.8 Vaccinations
Why do people get vaccinated 2,
What do vaccinations do 2,
What are the pros of vaccinations 3
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2.16 Antibiotic Resistance
How does drug resistance happen 3,
When drug resistance occurs what ...,
How can you pass on this antibiot...
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3.3 Photosynthesis
Where does photosynthesis take place,
What is the word equation for pho...,
Is photosynthesis an exothermic o...
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3.4 Factors Affecting the Rate of Photosynthesis
What are the factors that affect ...,
What does the level of chlorophyl...,
What happens if the temperature i...
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3.5 Diffusion
What is diffusion,
Cell membranes are partially perm...,
Is diffusion a passive or an acti...
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3.6 Osmosis
What is osmosis,
What is meant by water concentration,
What would happen to red blood ce...
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3.7 Active Transport
What is active transport,
What is responsible for the energ...,
How do root hair cells take in water
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3.9 Transpiration & Translocation
What are phloem tubes made up of 2,
What do the phloem vessels transp...,
What are xylem tubes made up of 2
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5.11 Reproductive Hormones - Puberty & Menstrual Cycle
What is the definition of puberty,
What do hormones do in females,
Describe stage 1 of the menstrual...
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6.9 - Food Security
What is food security,
What are the 2 key features of fo...,
What are the 5 factors that affec...
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2.12 - Cancer
What is a tumour,
How are tumours formed,
What are the two types for tumour...
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3.16 Food Chains & Foodwebs
What do food chains always start ...,
How do producers make their food,
What is a producer
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3.18 Pyramids of Biomass
What does each bar on a pyramid o...
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4.8 Meiosis
What is sexual reproduction,
In sexual reproduction what do th...,
What are gametes in animals
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3.1 What are Enzymes?
What are enzymes,
Explain how speeding up a reactio...,
What do enzymes do
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1.10 Using Genome Research In Medicine
Why is the human genome important 2,
How can genetic testing help to i...,
Drawbacks of genetic screening 3
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1.11 Genetic Engineering/Modification
What is genetic engineering,
What are three examples of geneti...,
What is gene therapy
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1.12 GMOs & Population Growth
Why has there been a higher deman...,
Global food production has had to...,
Roughly how much has the world po...
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2.9 Culturing Microorganisms
Conditions needed for bacterial g...,
What mixture of nutrients do bact...,
What 2 different culture mediums ...
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2.10 Monoclonal Antibodies
What are antibodies,
How do we make monoclonal antibod...,
Describe how monoclonal antibodie...
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2.11 Pregnancy Test
What is the pregnancy hormone,
Describe the components of the te...,
Describe how a pregnancy test wor...
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2.13 Risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases
What is a risk factor,
What are three examples of non co...,
What are the two categories that ...
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2.14 Exercise
During exercise what type of resp...,
Why is more cellular respiration ...,
What do we have to increase in ou...
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2.15 Drugs & Medicine
What are the two groups of drugs ...,
What are painkillers,
What are three examples of painki...
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2.17 Cardiovascular Disease
What are cardiovascular diseases,
What are 4 examples of cardiovasc...,
Describe how atheromas are formed
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2.18 Developing New Medicines
What are most medicines made from,
Aspirin is a common painkiller th...,
In order to develop a new drug wh...
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3.2 - Factors That Affect Enzyme Action
Describe how temperature effects ...,
Describe how ph effects the rate ...,
Describe how substrate concentrat...
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3.8 Plant Cell Organisation
Why is diffusion harder in multic...,
Why does carbon dioxide move into...,
Describe how carbon dioxide diffu...
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3.10 Minerals for Healthy Growth
What are mineral ions,
Why do plants need mineral ions,
Describe the process in which pla...
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3.11 - Competition & Interdependence
State the 4 different levels of o...,
What do plants need in ecosystems,
What do animals need in ecosystems
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3.12 Abiotic and Biotic Factors
What are biotic factors,
What are abiotic factors,
Give 6 examples of abiotic factors
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3.13 Eutrophication
What is a fertiliser,
Why do we need fertilisers,
Npk fertilisers 3
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3.14 Investigating Abundance & Distribution
What are the two main sampling me...,
How can you investigate how the d...,
What is a belt transect
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3.15 Keys
What are keys,
What are dichotomous keys
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3.17 Trophic Levels
What are trophic levels,
What is trophic level 1,
What is trophic level 2
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3.18 Pyramids of Biomass
What do pyramids of biomass show,
What does each bar on a pyramid o...,
What happens to most energy as yo...
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3.20 Food Tests (Practical)
How do you prepare a food sample,
How do you carry out the benedict...,
What colour will the solution go ...
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3.19 Biological Molecules
What are biological molecules pro...,
What are nutrients,
What are carbohydrates
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3.21 Carbon and Water Cycles
What is the whole carbon cycle po...,
What do green plants use the carb...,
What does eating do to the carbon...
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3.22 Decay
Describe the process of decomposi...,
What are detritus feeders detriti...,
What are decomposers
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3.23 Global Warming
What is the atmosphere,
What happens to the suns heat ene...,
Why does global warming occur
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4.1 Aerobic & Anaerobic Respiration
What is cellular respiration,
How organisms use their energy 3,
What is metabolism
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4.2 Mitosis
Why do all multicellular eukaryot...,
What is a cell cycle,
What happens in the interphase st...
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4.3 Microscopy - What it is
In microscopy what does object re...,
In microscopy what does the image...,
What do the lenses in microscopes...
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4.4 Microscopy - Light vs Electron Microscopes
How do electron microscopes diffe...,
What are the pros to light micros...,
What are the cons of light micros...
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4.5 Microscopy - Units of Conversion
How many times bigger are microme...,
What is the smallest size that th...,
Describe how you would convert 30...
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4.6 Microscopy - Calculations
What is the equation for finding ...,
What is the equation for finding ...,
How would you rearrange the magni...
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4.7 Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
What happens in sexual reproduction,
Why are egg cells bigger than spe...,
What are the gametes involved whe...
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4.10 Stem Cells in Medicine
What are the two types of stem ce...,
Describe diabetes paralysis and s...,
How may scientists use embryonic ...
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4.11 Specialised Cells & Differentiation
Define differentiation,
Explain how a sperm cell is adapt...,
Heart muscle tissue has to be abl...
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4.12 Plant Hormones - Auxins
What are auxins,
Describe how shoots are positivel...,
Describe how shoots are negativel...
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4.13 Plant Hormones - Comercial Uses
Give two examples of how auxins c...,
What is dormancy,
Give three examples of how gibber...
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5.1 Surface Area to Volume ratio
What do single celled organisms n...,
What do single celled organisms g...,
Cells need oxygen for aerobic res...
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5.2 Specialised Exchange Surfaces
What are specialised exchange sur...,
What is the job of the lungs,
What are the alveoli surrounded by
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5.3 Lungs & Gas Exchange
How do our cells get the energy n...,
Describe how oxygen travels in th...,
What is a single alveoli called
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5.4 Circulatory System I
What is the circulatory system ma...,
What is the role of the circulato...,
Describe what each circuit in the...
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5.5 Circulatory System 2 - Blood vessels
What are the three main types of ...,
What do arteries do,
What do capillaries do
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5.6 Circulatory System 3 - Blood
What is blood,
What is plasma,
What are red blood cells
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5.7 The Nervous System, Synapses & Reflexes
What is the nervous system made u...,
Describe how a neurone transmits ...,
Describe how the central nervous ...
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5.8 Brain
What is the brain made up of,
What is the cerebral cortex,
What are the two sides of the cer...
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5.9 Endocrine System
What does the endocrine system co...,
What does the pituitary gland do,
What gland is found in the neck
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5.10 Adrenaline & Thyroxine
When is adrenaline produced,
What does adrenaline do 4 simplified,
Which organ is adrenaline release...
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5.12 Contraception
Describe briefly with mention to ...,
What 2 hormones do hormonal metho...,
What does the release of oestroge...
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5.13 Fertility Treatment
What does fsh stand for,
What does lh stand for,
What would low levels of fsh mean...
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5.14 Homeostasis
Conditions in your body need to b...,
Define homeostasis,
What type of systems do our body ...
11
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5.15 Thermoregulation
What is thermoregulation,
What part of your brain acts as y...,
How does the hypothalamus detect ...
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5.16 Kidneys 1 - Overview & ADH
What is the role of the kidneys,
What is urea,
What type of fluid are body cells...
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5.17 Kidneys 2 - Anatomy & Nephrons
How does blood pass through the k...,
What does the tubule carry,
What 5 main things can be filtere...
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5.18 Regulating Glucose
What does our cells need glucose for,
What puts glucose into our blood,
What are changes in blood glucose...
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5.19 Diabetes
When does type 1 diabetes general...,
What is type 1 diabetes,
What is insulin therapy
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5.20 Eyes 1 - Structure & Iris Reflex
What type of organ is the eye,
The cornea,
The iris
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5.21 Eyes 2 - Accommodation & Visual Defects
What is accommodation in terms of...,
If the object an eye is looking a...,
If the object an eye is looking a...
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6.1 Variation & Evolution
Describe how natural selection in...,
What is the definition of evolution,
What is speciation
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6.2 Speciation
What is wallace best known for 2,
Speciation,
What is a species
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6.3 Fossils & Extinction
What are fossils,
What are the three ways that foss...,
What are the reasons that a speci...
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6.4 Selective Breeding
Why do humans use selective breeding,
What are organisms bred to have 3,
Describe the basic process involv...
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6.6. Classification
Traditionally how were organisms ...,
What did carl linnaeus propose,
How did developments in biology l...
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6.7 How Humans Reduce Biodiversity
Biodiversity is a combination of ...,
Why is biodiversity important,
Humans have a big impact on the e...
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6.8 Maintaining Biodiversity
What is sustainability,
How can we protect specific speci...,
How can we protect habitats and e...
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