advanced higher biology

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Decks in this class (28)

biology - unit 1.1
What can present a hazard,
What do hazards in the lab include,
What is risk
59  cards
biology - 1.2
What is your name,
What are you studying just now,
What are genes that do not code f...
78  cards
biology - 1.3
What hold integral membrane prote...,
What do integral membrane protein...,
What are some integral proteins
39  cards
biology - 1.4
How do multicellular organisms si...,
What are examples of extracellula...,
What are receptor molecules of ta...
63  cards
biology - 1.5
What does the cytoskeleton give,
What does the cytoskeleton consis...,
What are microtubules
42  cards
biology - 3
What does the null hypothesis pro...,
When is the null hypothesis rejected,
When do scientific ideas become a...
45  cards
biology 2.1a - health and safety
What can present a hazard,
What do hazards in fieldwork include,
What is risk
5  cards
biology - 2.1b - sampling wild organisms
How should sampling be carried out,
What must consideration be given to,
What must the chosen technique po...
8  cards
biology - 2.1c - identification and taxonomy
How can indentification of an org...,
How can organisms be classified,
What does taxonomy involve
16  cards
biology - 2.1d - monitoring populations
What can presence absence or abun...,
What can be used to monitor an ec...,
What does an absence or reduced p...
9  cards
biology - 2.1e - measuring and recording animal behaviour
What are some of the measurements...,
What is latency,
What is frequency
9  cards
biology - 2.2a - drift and selection
What is evolution,
During evolution what do changes ...,
What does natural selection act on
32  cards
biology - 2.2b - fitness
What is fitness an indication of,
What is fitness a measure of,
What does fitness refer to
8  cards
biology - 2.2c - co-evolution
What is co evolution,
What does a change in traits of o...,
Where is co evolution frequently ...
11  cards
biology - 2.3a - costs and benefits of sexual and asexual reproduction
What is the costs of sexual repro...,
Why do benefits outweigh costs,
What does genetic variation provide
17  cards
biology - 2.3b - meiosis
What is meiosis,
In diploid cells what do chromoso...,
What are homologous chromosomes
16  cards
biology - 2.3c - sex determination
What is the sex of birds mammals ...,
In most mammals what determines d...,
What do heterogametic xy males lack
16  cards
biology - 2.4a - parental investment
1  cards
biology - 2.4b - reproductive behaviours and mating systems in animals
What are mating systems based on,
What do mating systems range from,
What is monogamy
19  cards
biology - 5ai - niche
What is an ecological niche,
What does a species have that it ...,
When is a realised niche occupied
5  cards
biology - 5aii - the parasite niche
What is parasitism,
What does a parasite gain benefit...,
Unlike in a predator prey relatio...
6  cards
biology - 5b - parasitic life cycles
What do some hosts require,
What do many parasites require,
What is the definitive host
24  cards
biology - 5c - transmission and viruslence
What is transmission,
What is virulence,
What are ectoparasites generally ...
9  cards
biology - 5d - defence against parasitic attack
What does immune response in mamm...,
What are non specific defences,
Examples of non specific defences
14  cards
biology - 5e - immune evasion
What have parasites evolved ways of,
What do endoparasites do,
Endoparasites what does antigenic...
5  cards
biology - 5f - challenges in treatment and control
What is epidemiology,
What is the herd immunity threshold,
What do vaccines contain
12  cards
definitions for unit 2
What is risk,
What is a risk assessment,
What is point count
47  cards
definition for unit 1
What is iep,
What are monoclonal antibodies,
What is aseptic technique
27  cards

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