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What are cells?

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The building blocks of all living organisms

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How do single cells carry out exchanges?

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Across their cell membrane

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What is a tissue?

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A group of cells with similar structure and function working together

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What does the muscular tissue do?

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Contract and relax to bring about movement.

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What does the glandular tissue do?

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Contains secretory cells that can produce and release substances such as enzymes and hormones

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What does the epilethal tissue do ?

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Covers the outside of the body and the internal organs.

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What is an organ?

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A collection of tissues working together to perform a particular function

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What tissues does the stomach organ contain?

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  • muscular tissue- to churn the food and digestive juices of the stomach together
  • glandular tissue- to produce digestive juices that break down food
  • epithelial tissue- which covers the inside and the outside of the organ
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Which organ has tissues that are completely different?

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The pancreas , two different tissue that produce enzymes that digest food and also hormones . Two completely different tissues

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What is an organ system?

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A whole multicellular organism made up of a group of organs that work together to perform a specific function.

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Examples of organ system?

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Digestive system
Circulatory system
Gas exchange system

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What does a group of organ systems create?

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Organism

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What is the digestive system?

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A organ system in which several organs work together to digets and absorb food.

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What does the mouth, salivary glands and oesophagus do?

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Mouth is where food enters, salivary glands produce saliva that contain amylase enzymes. The oesophagus is the tube that the food is squeezed down

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What does the pancreas do in the digestive process?

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Produce enzymes and release them in the stomach

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What does the liver do?

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Produces bile , releases into the stomach.

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What does the gall bladder do ?.

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Store bile , before releasing it

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What does the small intestine do ?

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Duodenum is where the food is mixed with bile and digestive enzymes
Then food moves to ileum where digested food is absorbed into blood and lymph , to go to necessary cells

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What happens in the large intestine?

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Colon is where water is reabsorbed
Rectum is where faeces is stored
Anus is where faeces leaves alimentary canal

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Process of digestion?

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  1. Mouth
  2. Salivary glands
  3. Oesophagus
  4. Pancreas
  5. liver
  6. Gall bladder
  7. Small intestine
  8. Large intestine
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What do glands do?

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Produce digestive juices containing enzymes

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Where does digestion take place?

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Stomach and small intestine

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What do enzymes do ?

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Break down insoluble food molecules into smaller soluble ones

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How is the small intestine adapted?

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  • large surface area, covered in villi
  • good blood supply
  • short diffusion distances.
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What are the main compounds that make up the structure of the cell and are vital for a balanced diet?
- carbohydrates - lipids - proteins
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Why carbohydrates are important?
Provide us with fuel to make all other reactions possible
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What elements do carbohydrates contain?
Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen
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What makes up carbohydrates?
Sugar units
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What is the carbohydrate made up of only one sugar molecule?
Simple sugar, eg glucose C6H12O6 or sucrose
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What are complex carbs?
Carbs with long chains of sugar molecules.
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Examples of complex carbs?
Starch , cellulose
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Examples of carb rich food?
Bread Potatoes Pasta
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What happens to most carbohydrates when taken into the body?
Broken down into glucose and used for cellular respiration to provide energy for metabolic reactions.
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What does carbs do for the plants?
Cellulose is a support material in plants
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Examples of lipids?
Fats and oils
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What are lipids?
Energy efficient store in the body and important energy source for your diet
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Why lipids are important?
Combined with other molecules, lipids are important in the cell membrane , as hormones and in the nervous system
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Are lipids soluble in water?
No
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What elements are in lipids?
Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen
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What makes up lipids?
3 molecules of fatty acid, joined with a molecule of glycerol. Glycerol is always the same but fatty acids can differ.
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Examples of lipids?
Oil, margarine , cheese, butter
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What are proteins?
Basic building block of all tissues in the body | Basis of enzymes
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What elements make up proteins?
Carbon , hydrogen , oxygen, nitrogen
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What makes up proteins?
Long chains of small units of amino acids
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How many amino acids are there ?
Around 20
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What makes different proteins?
Different arrangements of amino acids. They are twisted, folded and coiled to make specific 3d shapes
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How strong are bonds between amino acids?
Sensitive to ph and temperature
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What happens if proteins loses its function?
Becomes denatured
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What functions do proteins carry out?
- structural components of tissues such as muscle and tendons - hormones such as insulin - antibodies , part of immune system , destroy pathogens - enzymes which act as catalysts
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What is a catalyst?
Speeds up chemical reactions , but is not used up in it. Can be used over and over again
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What controls the rate of chemical reactions?
Controlled by enzymes
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What do enzymes interact with?
Substrate
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What is the active site of an enzyme?
A section on an enzyme that can bind to a particular substrate. It is vital otherwise enzyme wont work
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What is bile?
Made in the liver and stored in the gall bladder. Its alkaline to neutralise hydrochloric acid from the stomach . It also emulsifies fats to form small droplets which increases the surface area. The alkaline conditions and large surface area increase the rate of fat breakdown by lipase
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What is the lock and key theory?
Enzymes have a specific active site to the substrate. This active site and the substrate binds to speed up the reaction of the substrate to create products.
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What enzyme breaks down protein?
Protease
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What happens when protein breaks down protease?
Breaks it down into individual amino acids and they are absorbed into the blood stream
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What happens when amino acids are absorbed by body cells?
Joined together in a different order to make human proteins
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What enzyme breaks down starch ?
Amylase
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What produces protease?
Pancreas, stomach and small intestine
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What breaks down lipids?
Lipase
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Where is amylase produced?
Salivary glands , pancreas
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Where is lipase produced?
Pancreas and small intestine
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What breaks down simple sugars?
Carbohydrases
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What is an enzyme?
A biological catalyst
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What controls the rate of reaction.
Enzymes
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What makes up enzymes?
Large protein molceules
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How is an enzymes active site formed?
Long chains are folded to produce a molecule with an active site , that can bind to a specific substrate.
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What is the lock and key theory?
- substrate fits into active site. - bind together and the reaction takes place rapidly and the products released from the surface of the enzymes - enzymes can also join small molecules together
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What do enzymes control?
Metabolism
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What is the metabolism ?
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body.
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Why do enzymes break down molecules ?
- glucose for cellular respiration(absorbed into blood stream) - amino acids to form urea.
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Why the shape of the active site is important?
Enzymes are specific to the substrate . Must fit perfectly or doesn't work
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How does temperature affect the activity of enzymes?
- increase temperature , activity increases. Enzymes and substrate moving faster. - one hit optimum temperature , it is working at its maximum . - once going past optimum temperature the activity of the enzyme rapidly decreases to 0
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What happens once the temperature of enzymes exceeds the optimum temperature ?
Vibrate rapidly and the active site changes. The substrate can no longer fit into the active site , so it is denatured.
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How does ph affect enzyme activity ?
Enzymes have an optimum ph . If ph becomes more acidic or alkali , the enzyme activity drops to 0. Each enzyme has a specific optimum ph
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How small intestine is adapted to be efficient?
- very large surface area for absorption of the products of digestion - interior covered in villi to increase surface area - microvilli increase it even more - villi have a good blood supply so blood stream rapidly removes products of digestion - villi have a thin membrane , short diffusion path - molecules not absorbed by diffusion ,are by active transport.

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