B1h Variation and Inheritance

You need to be able to:

• Identify characteristic as environmental, inherited or both
• Understand and apply the terms; "chromosome, gene, allele, dominant, recessive, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive"
• Construct and use genetic cross diagrams for gender determination, family pedigrees of inherited disorders and for inherited characteristics (e.g. eye colour)

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2. Variation and inheritance notes
3. Reading, flash cards, quiz and more on genetic variation
4. Key terminology meanings
5. Interactive eye colour calculator

B1g Controlling Plant Growth

You need to be able to:

• Describe, explain and conclude from experiments investigating plant's response to light
• Explain phototropism and geotropism (including the role of auxin)
• Expalin how plant hormones are used commercially

1. Tutorial on tropisms (you don't need to understand thigmotropism)
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4. Geotropism and phototropism notes from the BBC
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6. Quiz on auxin and plant growth
7. Notes and questions on tropisms

B1f Staying in Balance

You need to be able to:

• Explain what homoeostasis is and how negative feedback loops maintain it
• Explain thermoregulation (what, why needed, how, what if it doesn't happen) 
• Explain the control of blood sugar (why needed, how, what if it doesn't happen)

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2. S-cool notes on homeostasis
3. Human homeostasis notes
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B1e Drugs and You

You need to be able to:

• Explain the classification of drugs (harmful/beneficial/prescription, legal classification with examples and effects, stimulants/depressants with examples and what they do to the synapses)
• Explain how smoking causes health problems (CO2, nicotine, tars, particulates, particular focus on the cause of smoker's cough)
• Explain the effect of alcohol (short term, long term - particular focus on cirrhosis, social impacts - data analysis)

1. Bitesize notes on drugs.
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3. Drugs and bad body maintenance notes
4. Interactive body map showing the effects of alcohol
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B1d The Nervous System

You need to be able to:

• Explain how the eye works (focus near and far, functions of each part, how long/short sight can be corrected, advantages and disadvantages of monocular and binocular vision)
• Describe the nervous system and the cells in it (neurones adapted to their function)
• Describe reflex and voluntary action (reflex arc, spinal reflex, synapses)

1. The nervous system and senses notes
2. Website explaining the nervous system, with further links
3. Short sight animation and diagrams
4. Long sight animation and diagrams
5. Bitesize notes on the eye (look at all the pages)
6. A nerve cell
7. Reflex arc

8. A synapse

   
   

 

 

B1c Staying Healthy

You need to be able to:

• Explain how infectious diseases are spread including examples (pathogens, parasite, host, malaria, vectors, how symptoms are caused, contolling the spread)
• Explain and evaluate immunisation (passive, active, action of antibodies, benefits and risks)
• Describe the use of antibiotics and anti viral drugs, and explain how new drugs are tested

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3. Pathogens
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5J1nF4wM4
5. Natural defences against diseases
6. Vaccination....

 

B1b Human Health and Diet

You need to be able to:

• Explain a balanced diet (and why it varies from person to person), and how carbohydrates, fats and proteins are stored in the body
• Describe the role of protein in the diet (including why teens need high protein, what protein deficiency is and why its common, what protein is used for in the body, calculating EAR for protein, explain why EAR for protein will vary, classify proteins)
• Calculate and understand BMI measurements, and link these to obesity and other poor diets

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2. Bitesize notes on health and diet
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4. Interactive BMI calculator
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B1a Fitness and Health

You need to be able to:

• Explain what blood pressure is and the consequences of high and of low blood pressure
• Explain and evaluate different ways of measuring fitness
• Explain the health issues caused by smoking and by poor diet (CO2 and red blood cells, cholesterol and heart disease/heart attack)

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3. Bitesize notes on measuring fitness
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