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Decks in this class (45)

Photosynthesis
What is the equation for photosyn...,
What is photosynthesis an example...,
What is a metabolic pathway 3
42  cards
Respiration
Where does aerobic respiration ta...,
What are the 4 parts of the mitoc...,
What is a co enzyme 3
45  cards
Energy transfer in ecosystems
What is an ecosystem 1,
What is biomass 2,
How is energy transferred through...
21  cards
Farming
What do food webs and food chains...,
What is each stage in a food chai...,
What is the role of decomposers 3
10  cards
Nutrient cycles
What are saprobionts 1,
What are saprobionts a type of an...,
What can saprobionts also do 3
39  cards
Fertilisers and eutrophication
What causes a loss of nutrients 1,
What is the purpose of fertilisers 2,
What are the two types of fertili...
10  cards
Survival and reponse
How do organisms increase their c...,
What is a stimulus 2,
What are two types of simple resp...
6  cards
Nervous communication
What are receptors 1,
What does a baroreceptor detect 2,
What are receptors specific to 3
15  cards
Responses in plants
What is a tropism 1,
How do plants respond to stimuli 2,
What is a positive tropism 3
24  cards
Receptors
What are receptors 1,
What do receptors in the nervous ...,
What are the three potentials of ...
38  cards
Control of heart rate
What are the two parts to the ner...,
What is the central nervous syste...,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...
33  cards
Neurones
When the membrane is at it s rest...,
What does polarised mean 2,
What is the voltage across the me...
36  cards
Synaptic transmission
What is a synapse 1,
What is a synaptic cleft 2,
What is a presynaptic neurone 3
31  cards
Muscle structure
What are three types of muscle 1,
What is cardiac muscle 2,
What is smooth muscle 3
34  cards
Muscle contraction
What is the structure of a myosin...,
What is the structure of an actin...,
What protein is found between act...
49  cards
Homeostasis basics
What is homeostasis 1,
What does homeostasis keep consta...,
Why is it important to maintain t...
21  cards
Control of blood glucose concentration
What is the normal concentration ...,
What monitors the concentration o...,
When does blood glucose rise 3
36  cards
Diabetes and blood glucose concentration
What is diabetes 1,
What are the two types of diabetes 2,
What happens in type 1 diabetes 3
16  cards
The kidneys
How does blood enter the kidneys 1,
What is ultrafiltration 2,
What substances are reabsorbed in...
25  cards
Controlling blood water potential
How is water lost 1,
What is osmoregulation 2,
What happens when the water poten...
17  cards
Genetic terms
What is a gene 1,
What is an allele 2,
What is a locus 3
10  cards
Genetic diagrams - simple monohybrid crosses
What do diploid organisms have 1,
What are gametes 2,
What are genetic diagrams used for 3
10  cards
Linkage
What is sex linkage 1,
Which chromosome are most genes f...,
Why do males express the characte...
12  cards
Epistasis
What is epistasis 1,
What will the phenotypic ratio be...,
What does there need to be for ep...
5  cards
Chi-squared test
What would the null hypothesis be...,
When do you use a chi squared test 2,
How do you calculate the expected...
7  cards
Hardy Weinberg principle
What is a species 1,
What is a population 2,
What is a gene pool 3
7  cards
Speciation and genetic drift
What is speciation 1,
When does speciation occur 2,
What does reproductively isolated...
22  cards
Ecosystems
What is an ecosystem 1,
What are biotic conditions 2,
What are some examples of biotic ...
11  cards
Variation in population size and investigating populations
What is a population 1,
What is a community 2,
What is population size 3
11  cards
Succession
What does a dynamic ecosystem mean 1,
What is succession 2,
Generally what happens at each st...
24  cards
Mutations and mutagenic agents
What is a mutation 1,
What can mutations be caused by 2,
What can increase the rate of mut...
10  cards
Cancer
What are acquired mutations 1,
What is a tumour 2,
How can acquired mutations cause ...
24  cards
Interpreting data on cancer
What is a risk factor 1,
What are the two types of risk fa...,
What are genetic risk factors 3
7  cards
Stem cells
What are stem cells 1,
What are the different types of s...,
What are totipotent stem cells 3
13  cards
Stem cells in medicine
What can bone marrow transplants ...,
What do the stem cells inserted i...,
What has bone marrow transports b...
19  cards
Regulation of transcription and translation
What are transcription factors 1,
Where are promoters found 2,
What are promoters 3
17  cards
Epigenetic control of gene expression
What is epigenetics 1,
What does epigenetic control dete...,
What are epigenetic changes a res...
23  cards
Genome projects
What is a genome 1,
What is a proteome 2,
What do you use to sequence the g...
5  cards
Making DNA fragments
What does recombinant dna technol...,
How is recombinant dna technology...,
What are the three ways you can p...
18  cards
Amplifying DNA fragments
What are the two ways to amplify ...,
What is in vivo cloning 2,
What is in vitro cloning 3
32  cards
Recombinant DNA technology
What is genetic engineering 1,
What is recombinant dna technology 2,
How do plants become transformed 3
15  cards
Gene therapy
What is gene therapy 1,
What is the treatment if there ar...,
What is the treatment if there is...
10  cards
Gene probes and medical diagnosis
What are dna probes 3 mark answer 1,
What are the two most common type...,
How is radioactivity detected 3
10  cards
Genetic fingerprinting
What is genetic fingerprinting 1,
What are vntr s also known as 2,
What are short tandem repeats 3
21  cards
Further reading (essay)
What is the 5 carbon compound int...
1  cards

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