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1.1 - Introduction to biological molecules
What is a monomer,
What is a polymer,
Give 3 examples of polymers
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1.2 - Carbohydrates - Monosaccharides
What is a monosaccharide,
Give 3 examples of monosaccharides,
What are the two types of glucose
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1.3 - Carbohydrates - Dissacharides and Polysaccharides
What is a disaccharide,
Give 3 examples of discaccharides...,
What bond is between two constitu...
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Food Tests
What are the 5 food tests,
What is the test for reducing sugars,
What is the test for non reducing...
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1.4 - Starch, Glycogen & Cellulose
Where is starch found,
How is the structure of starch su...,
Where is glycogen found
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1.5 - Lipids
What are lipids,
What are the two main groups of l...,
Give 5 roles of lipids within bio...
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1.6 - Proteins
What are amino acids,
How many naturally occurring amin...,
How do the 20 naturally occurring...
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2.1 Structure of RNA and DNA
What are the three components of ...,
How are the pentose sugar phospha...,
How can two mononucleotides be jo...
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2.2 DNA replication
What are the two main stages of c...,
What must happen before a nucleus...,
What are the four requirements fo...
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2.3 Energy and ATP
What are the three parts of atp,
What do the bonds between phospha...,
What happens when the bond betwee...
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2.4 Water and its functions
Why is water described as dipolar,
What is a hydrogen bond,
Important properties of water
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3.1 Methods of studying cells
What is cell fractionation,
What are the conditions that must...,
What are the two stages of cell f...
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3.2 The Electron Microscope
Why do light microscopes have poo...,
What are the two main advantages ...,
What are the two types of electro...
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3.4 Eukaryotic Cell structure
What is meant by the ultrastructu...,
What is the function of the nucleus,
What is the function of the nucel...
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3.5 Cell specialisation and organisation
What is a tissue,
What are some examples of tissues,
What is an organ
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3.6 Prokaryotic cells and viruses
What are the two types of cells,
What is the cell wall of bacteria...,
Describe the structure of a bacte...
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3.7 Mitosis
What does mitosis produce,
What does meiosis produce,
Describe prophase
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3.8 The cell cycle
What are the 3 stages of the cell...,
Describe interphase,
Describe nuclear division
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4.1 Structure of the cell-surface membrane
What are the 5 structures of a ce...,
Why are phospholipids important c...,
What functions do phospholipids h...
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4.2 Diffusion
What is diffusion,
What type of process is diffusion,
What is a passive process
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4.3 Osmosis
What is osmosis,
How is water potential represented,
What is water potential measured in
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4.4 Active transport
What is active transport,
What is atp used for in active tr...,
How does active transport differ ...
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4.5 Co-transport and absorption of glucose in the ileum
What component do epithelial cell...,
What are microvilli,
What is the function of microvilli
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5.1 Defence Mechanisms
What are the two responses involv...,
Protein molecules on the cell mem...,
How do lymphocytes recognise cell...
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5.2 Phagocytosis
What are the two types of white b...,
What do phagocytes do,
What do lymphocytes do
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5.3 T lymphocytes and cell-mediated immunity
What is an antigen,
What type of response is phagocyt...,
What type of response is the cell...
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5.4 Humoral immunity and B lymphocytes
What does humoral immunity involve,
What do b cells produce,
What happens when an antigen ente...
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5.5 Antibodies
What are antibodies,
What are antibodies made up of,
What is the variable region
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5.6 Vaccination
What is immunity,
What are the two forms of immunity,
What is passive immunity
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5.7 The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
What does hiv cause,
Describe the structure of hiv,
What does the presence of reverse...
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6.1 Exchange between organisms and their environment
What is the environment around th...,
What are the features of a specia...,
What is the relationship between ...
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6.2 Gas exchange in single-celled organisms and insects
How does gas exchange occur in si...,
What have insects evolved mechani...,
What system do insects have for g...
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6.3 Gas exchange in fish
Describe the structure of the gills,
Describe the route by which water...,
What is the countercurrent flow
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6.4 Gas exchange in the leaf of a plant
What happens when photosynthesis ...,
What happens when photosynthesis ...,
How is gas exchange in plants sim...
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6.5 Limiting water loss
What is the problem for all terre...,
What adaptations have insects evo...,
How do plants limit water loss
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6.6 Structure of the human gas-exchange surface
Why do aerobic organisms require ...,
Why is the volume of oxygen that ...,
Why are lungs located in the body
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6.7 The mechanism of breathing
How is diffusion across the alveo...,
What happens when the air pressur...,
What happens when the air pressur...
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6.8 Exchange of gases in the lungs
Where is the site of gas exchange...,
What must occur to ensure a const...,
What ensures efficient transfer o...
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6.9 Enzymes and digestion
What is the human digestive syste...,
What are the major parts of the d...,
What is the oesophagus and what i...
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6.10 Absorption of the products of digestion
Why is the ileum adapted to the f...,
Where are villi situated,
What are the properties of villi ...
5
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7.1 Mass Transport - Haemoglobin
Describe the structure of haemogl...,
What is the loading of oxygen and...,
What is the unloading of oxygen a...
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7.2 Transport of oxygen by haemoglobin
What is the explanation for oxyge...,
What does a curve further to the ...,
What does a curve further to the ...
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7.4 The structure of the heart
What does the left side of the he...,
What does the right side of the h...,
What are the names of the two cha...
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7.6 Blood vessels and their functions
What are the four types of blood ...,
What are the components of the ba...,
What differs between each blood v...
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7.5 The Cardiac Cycle
What are the two phases to the be...,
Process of diastole,
Process of atrial systole
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7.6B - Tissue Fluid
What is tissue fluid,
What is the function of tissue fluid,
What does tissue fluid receive in...
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8.1 Genes and the genetic code
What is a gene,
What is the coded information in ...,
What is a lcus
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8.2 DNA and chromosomes
Describe dna of prokaryotic cells,
Describe the dna of eukaryotic cells,
When is the only time chromosomes...
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8.3 Structures of ribonucleic acid
What is a codon,
What is the genome,
What is the proteome
10
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8.4 Polypeptide synthesis - Transcription and splicing
What is the overall principle beh...,
Describe the process of transcrit...,
What is splicing of pre mrna
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8.5 Polypeptide synthesis - translation
Describe the process of translation
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9.1 Gene mutation
What is a mutation,
What is a gene mutation,
What happens when substitution of...
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9.2 Meiosis and genetic variation
What are the two types of cell di...,
What must occur to maintain a con...,
What is the process of meiosis 1
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10.1 Species and taxonomy
What is classification,
What is a species,
How are species named
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10.2 Diversity within a community
What is biodiversity,
What are the three components of ...,
What is species diversity
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10.3 Species diversity and human activities
What agricultural practices have ...,
What are some conservation techni...
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12.1 Glycolysis
What do cells use as an immediate...,
What are the two forms of cellula...,
What is aerobic respiration
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12.2 Link reaction and Krebs cycle
What happens to the pyruvate mole...,
What is the link reaction,
Where does the link reaction and ...
10
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12.3 Oxidative phosphorylation
Where does oxidative phosphorylat...,
What does the synthesis of atp by...,
What is the process of oxidative ...
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12.4 Anaerobic respiration
What happens in the absence of ox...,
What must happen for glycolysis t...,
What are the two types of anaerob...
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13.1 Food chains and energy transfer
What is the ultimate source of en...,
What are the three groups of orga...,
What are producers
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13.2 Energy transfer and productivity
How much of the suns energy avail...,
Why is most of the suns energy no...,
What is the gross primary product...
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13.4 Use of natural and artificial fertiliser
What does intensive food producti...,
What does intensive food producti...,
How are minerals in natural ecosy...
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13.5 Environmental issues concerning the use of nitrogen-containing fertilisers
What are the detrimental effects ...,
What is leaching,
What does rainwater do to soluble...
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20.1 Gene Mutations
What is a mutation,
What is a gene mutation,
What are the types of gene mutation
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20.2 Stem cells and totipotency
What is cell differentiation,
What are totipotent cells,
How are genes prevented from expr...
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20.3 Regulation of transcription and translation
What are the general principles i...,
How can oestrogen begin transcrip...
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20.4 Epigenetic control of gene expression
What is epigenetics,
What is the epigenome,
What does acetylation affect
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20.5 Gene expression and cancer
What are the two types of tumour,
Properties of benign tumours,
Properties of malignant tumours
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20.6 Genome Projects
What is a genome,
What is bioinformatics,
What does determining the complet...
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21.1 Recombinant DNA technology - Producing DNA fragments
What does recombinant dna allow,
What is recombinant dna,
What is the result of recombinant...
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21.2 In Vivo gene cloning - use of vectors
What are the two methods of cloni...,
What are the sequences cut by res...,
What happens if the recognition s...
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21.3 In vitro gene cloning - the polymerase chain reaction
Why is the pcr rapid and efficient,
What things does the process require,
What is dna polymerase
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21.4 Locating genes, genetic screening, and counselling
What has recombinant dna technolo...,
What is a dna probe,
What are the two most commonly us...
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21.5 Genetic fingerprinting
What does the process of genetic ...,
How does gel electrophoresis work,
What must happen to larger genes ...
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16.1 Principles of homeostasis
What is homeostasis,
Why is homeostasis important,
What are the stages of controllin...
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16.2 Feedback Mechanisms
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16.3 Hormones and the regulation of blood glucose concentration
What are the characteristics of h...,
What is the name of the mechanism...,
What is the mechanism of adrenaline
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16.4 Diabetes and its control
What are the two types of diabetes,
What is type 1 diabetes,
What is type 2 diabetes
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19.1 Populations in ecosystems
What is ecology,
What is an ecosystem,
What are the two major processes ...
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19.2 Variation in population size
Why does no population continue t...,
What are the examples of abiotic ...
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19.3 Competition
What causes competition to arise,
What is intraspecific competition,
What is interspecific competition
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19.4 Predation
What is a predator,
What is a prey,
What is predation
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19.5 Investigating populations
What are the two methods of sampl...,
What are the 3 factors to conside...,
How do we get a truly random samp...
10
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19.6 Succession
What is succession,
How does succession take place,
How may a species change an envir...
11
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19.7 Conservation of habitats
What is conservation,
What does conservation involve,
What are the main reasons for con...
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18.4 Effects of different forms of selection on evolution
What are the three types of selec...,
What is stabilising selection,
What is directional selection
4
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Recurring Exam Questions and Answers
Explain why an enzyme only cataly...,
Describe how mrna is produced in ...,
Describe the structure of proteins
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14.1 Survival and Response
What is a stimulus,
What does responding to stimulus ...,
What does greater survivability f...
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14.2 Plant Growth Factors
In order to survive what must pla...,
What do plants respond to,
What do plants responses to exter...
10
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14.3 A reflex arc
What are the two major divisions ...,
What is the central nervous syste...,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...
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14.4 Receptord
What do pacinian copuscles respon...,
What are sensory responses specif...,
How do sensory responses produce ...
12
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14.5 Control of Heart Rate
What does autonomic mean,
What does the autonomic nervous s...,
What are the two divisions of the...
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15.1 Neurones and Nervous Coordination
What are the two forms of coordin...,
What does the nervous system use ...,
What do electrical nervous impuls...
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7.7 Transport of Water in the Xylem
Where in plants is water absorbed,
Where is the majority of water tr...,
What is the main force that pulls...
14
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7.8 Transport of Organic Substances in the Phloem
What is translocation,
What is the phloem,
What is the phloem made up of
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7.9 Investigating transport in Plants
Describe how a ringing experiment...,
What happens after a ringing expe...,
What does the region that was swo...
13
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9.3 Genetic diversity and adaptation
What can similarities and differe...,
What is a gene,
What is genetic diversity
10
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9.4 Types of Selection
What is selection,
What organisms are subject to sel...,
What causes different characteris...
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11.1 Photosynthesis
What is the main photosynthetic s...,
How are leaves adapted to their f...,
What are the 3 stages of photosyn...
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11.2 Light Dependent reaction
What does the light dependent rea...,
What are the two purposes of capt...,
What is oxidation
18
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11.3 Light independent reaction
What are the products from the ld...,
Why is atp and reduced nadp impor...,
Does the lidr require light energ...
6
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17.1 Studying inheritance
What is the genotype of an organism,
What does the genotype determine,
What is phenotype
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15.2 The Nerve Impulse
What is a nerve impulse,
What is a nerve impulse a tempora...,
What is the temporary reversal be...
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13.3 Nutrient Cycles
How does energy enter an ecosystem,
Describe the basis of a simple nu...,
What are nitrogen ions used for
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15.7 Structure of Skeletal Muscle
What are muscles,
What are the three types of muscl...,
What are individual muscles made ...
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