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Year 1 Model Answers
Describe condensation reactions 1,
Describe hydrolysis 2,
Name the bonds in biological mole...
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Year 1 Practical Techniques
What do you need to know about rp...,
What do you need to know about rp...,
What do you need to know about rp...
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3.1.1 Monomers and Polymers (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
What is a condensation reaction 1,
What is a hydrolysis reaction 2,
What is a monomer 3
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3.1.2 Carbohydrates (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
Name a structural polysaccharide 1,
Which elements make up carbohydra...,
When 2 monosaccharides join toget...
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3.1.3 Lipids (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
Which 3 elements do lipids contain 1,
Which part of a phospholipid is h...,
Identify the molecule 3
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3.1.4.1 Proteins (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
What decides the amino acid seque...,
Describe the ionic bonds that hol...,
What does biuret reagent contain 3
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3.1.4.2 Enzymes (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
How did scientists discover the i...,
What is a substrate 2,
Why are enzymes essential to orga...
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3.1.5 Nucleic Acids and DNA Replication (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
Dna is made from which monomer 1,
Name the 3 components of a nucleo...,
In dna which base complements gua...
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3.1.6 Energy and ATP (Unit 1 Biological Molecules)
Why is glucose not a good immedia...,
If an inorganic phosphate molecul...,
What is the equation for respirat...
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3.1.7/8 Water and Ions
Give a property of water 1,
Why is it useful to living organi...,
Why is it useful to living cells ...
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3.2.1.1 Eukaryotic Cell Structure and Specialised Cells (Unit 2 Cells)
Is this a eukaryotic or prokaryot...,
Identify the organelle of the ani...,
Identify the organelle of the ani...
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3.2.1.5 Studying Cells/Microscopy/Cell Fractionation (Unit 2 Cells)
What you see when looking through...,
What is the biggest disadvantage ...,
What are the advantages of a ligh...
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3.2.1.2 Prokaryotes and Virus Structure (Unit 2 Cells)
Identify the missing label 1,
The nucleic acid in a virus is en...,
Do prokaryotes have a nucelus 3
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3.2.2 Cell Cycle and Mitosis (Unit 2 Cells)
What are the 4 stages of mitosis 1,
What does the diagram show 2,
Cancer is caused by uncontrolled ...
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3.2.3.1 - Cell Membrane Structure and Function (Unit 2 Cells)
All membranes around and within c...,
What do we call the plasma membra...,
What is the function of a cell su...
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3.2.3.2 - Transport across membranes Unit 2 Cells)
Diffusion is an example of 1,
In diffusion the motion of the pa...,
In diffusion the direction of par...
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3.2.4 Immunity (Unit 2 Cells)
What is immunity 1,
What is an antigen 2,
Describe non specific defences 3
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3.3.1 Surface area to volume ratio (Unit 3 Exchange)
The name given to the environment...,
Single celled organisms can match...,
Exchange of materials in living o...
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3.3.2 Gas Exchange (Unit 3 Exchange)
Fish 1,
Fish 2,
Fish 3
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3.3.3 Digestion and Absorption (Unit 3 Exchange)
The 2 stages of digestion in huma...,
Give some examples of proteases i...,
Identify the part of the digestiv...
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3.3.4.1 Mass Transport in animals (Unit 3 Exchange)
Give some ways in which cardiac o...,
Explain what causes the blood pre...,
Explain why a vein is described a...
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3.3.4.2 Mass Transport in plants (Unit 3 Exchange)
Explain how the active transport ...,
The presence of an air bubble in ...,
Explain how water enters a plant ...
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3.4.1 DNA, genes and chromosomes (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
What is a gene 1,
What is the locus 2,
What factors determine the phenot...
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3.4.2 DNA and protein synthesis (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
Define genome 1,
Define proteome 2,
Define codon 3
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3.4.5 Species and taxonomy (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
What are the 5 things courtship b...,
What are the 2 types of classific...,
What is meant by a hierarchy 3
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3.4.4 Genetic diversity and adaptation (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
Define genetic diversity 1,
Apart from genetic factors what o...,
What is a species 3
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3.4.3 Meiosis and Diversity (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
Give 2 possible causes of variati...,
Explain what happens to chromosom...,
Describe how meiosis causes varia...
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3.4.6 Biodiversity within a community (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
The demand for increased food pro...,
Why might animal species diversit...,
Explain why it may be more useful...
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3.4.7 Investigating diversity (Unit 4 DNA and Relationships)
Comparing the base sequences of a...,
What does standard deviation show 2,
What can be said about the data c...
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Essay Model Answers
Ao1 synapses ao2 control of heart...,
Ao1 oxidative phosphorylation ao2...,
Ao1 photophosphorylation ao2 ligh...
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Year 2 Model Answers
Describe predator prey relationsh...,
Describe succession 2,
Why are there are energy losses b...
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Year 2 Practical Techniques
What do you need to know about th...,
What do you need to know about th...,
What do you need to know about th...
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3.5.1 Photosynthesis, LDR and LIR (Unit 5 Energy Transfers)
Describe how nadp is reduced in t...,
What are the products of the ligh...,
Identify the labels 3
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3.5.2 Respiration (Unit 5 Energy Transfers)
Identify the missing labels 1,
Identify the missing label 2,
Identify the missing labels 3
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3.5.3.1 - Energy and Biomass/GPP and NPP (Unit 5 Energy Transfers)
Define ecosystem 1,
What are producers 2,
What is biomass 3
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3.5.4 Nutrient Cycling (Unit 5 Energy Transfers)
What is a saprobiont 1,
What is a symbiotic relationship 2,
What do plants and animals use ni...
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3.6.1.1 Survival and Response (Unit 6 Responding to Environment)
Suggest two advantages of simple ...,
What is a stimulus 2,
Why is the ability to respond to ...
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3.6.1.2 Receptors (Unit 6 Responding to Environment)
Give the location of osmoreceptor...,
When a person is dehydrated the w...,
What is the function of a recepto...
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3.6.1.3 Control of heart rate (Unit 6 Responding to Environment)
Describe how a heartbeat is initi...,
The sinoatrial node san is in the...,
When a wave of electrical activit...
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3.6.2.1 Nerve Impulses (Unit 6 Responding to Environment)
What is the voltage across the me...,
How is resting potential maintain...,
What happen in response to the st...
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3.6.2.2 Synaptic transmission (Unit 6 Responding to Environments)
What is the myelin made up of 1,
What is saltatory conduction 2,
What are the nodes of ranvier 3
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3.6.3 Skeletal muscles as Effectors (Unit 6 Responding to Environment)
Describe the role of atp in muscl...,
Describe the role of ca ions in m...,
Role of glycogen in skeletal musc...
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3.6.4.1 Homeostasis and negative feedback (Unit 6 Homeostasis)
What is negative feedback 1,
Describe the sequence of events t...,
Define homeostasis 3
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3.6.4.2 Control of blood glucose (Unit 6 Homeostasis)
Define gluconeogenesis 1,
Define glycogenolysis 2,
Define glycogenesis 3
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3.6.4.3 Control of blood water potential (Unit 6 Homeostasis)
What are the 4 stages of water re...,
Where are osmoreceptors 2,
Where specifically is adh secrete...
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3.7.1 Inheritance (Unit 7 Inheritance and Populations)
What is a genotype 1,
What is an allele 2,
What is a gene 3
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3.7.2 Populations (Unit 7 Inheritance and Ecosystems)
What does hardy weinberg predict 1,
Hardy weinberg principle only hol...,
P q 1 what is this predicting 3
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3.7.3 Evolution may lead to speciation (Unit 7 Inheritance and Populations)
What do you call the environmenta...,
Define gene pool 2,
All populations have the potentia...
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3.7.4 Ecosystems (Unit 7 Inheritance and Populations)
Define community 1,
Define ecosysytem 2,
Define niche 3
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3.8.1 DNA Mutations (Unit 8 Gene Expression)
Mutations are 1,
Mutations occur through errors du...,
Mutation rate can be increased by 3
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3.8.2.1 Stem Cells (Unit 8 Gene Expression)
What does totipotency mean 1,
What does pluripotency mean 2,
What does multipotency mean 3
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3.8.2.2 Regulation of transcription and translation (Unit 8 Gene Expression)
Molecules which regulate the expr...,
Where do transcription factors bi...,
What do transcription factors do ...
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3.8.2.3 Gene Expression and Cancer (Unit 8 Gene Expression)
Epigenetics has been associated w...,
All tumours are cancerous true or...,
What is a tumour 3
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3.8.3 Using genome projects (Unit 8 Gene Expression)
Why might the ability to determin...,
Why is determining the genome of ...,
What is a genome 3
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3.8.4.1 Recombinant DNA Technology (Unit 8 Gene Tech)
What is meant by the term recombi...,
Why does recombinant dna technolo...,
What does universal mean 3
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3.8.4.2 and 3 DNA fingerprinting and Genetic counselling (Unit 8 Gene Tech)
What are the two methods that can...,
How does germ line gene therapy w...,
How does somatic cell gene therap...
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