Biology Flashcards
(33 cards)
Respiration
The release of energy from our food
MRSFERG
Movement Respiration Sensitivity Feeding Excretion Reproduction Growth
Invertebrate
No backbone e.g worm
Vertebrate
Backbone e.g. Fish
key
set of questions to identify animal/plant
Excretion
Removal of waste products made in the body
Photosynthesis
Plants made their own food
Chlorophyll
Green pigment in plants
Ovaries
Store and release eggs
The Fallopian
Tubes carry the egg to the uterus fertilisation occurs here
The uterus
Womb is where the fertilised egg becomes implanted and finds nourishment
The cervix
Leads from the vagina to the uterus
The vagina
Holds the penis during sexual intercourse forms the birth canal during child birth
Gametes
Sex sell
Male gamete
Is the sperm
Female gamete
Is the egg/ovum
Ovulation
An eggs is released from the ovary an average of every 28 days
Fertile period
These are the days of the menstrual cycle when the woman is the most likely to become pregnant
Copulation
Is another name for sexual inter course
Implantation
Occurs when the fertilised egg lodges it’s self on the lining of the uterus
Zygote
The egg and sperm fuse to from a single cell
Embryo
Devision of the zygote occurs and it grows it attaches to the lining of the uterus Impaintation
Foetus
After 8 weeks looks like a human
Pregnancy
The average of a human pregnancy is 40 weeks