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What is the name of the substance found in the stomach that provides the optimum pH level for many enzymes to function?
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Hydrochloric Acid
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Which type of tumour is not bound by a membrane, so can spread into surrounding tissue and the blood, meaning that a secondary tumour can form?
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Malignant
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What is the name of the pathogen responsible for rose black spot disease?
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Fungus
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What is the name of the painkiller that came from the bark of willow trees?
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Aspirin
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A magnesium ion deficiency can lead to the yellowing of plant leaves as a result of a lack of chlorophyll, also known by what name?
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Chlorosis
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What is the name of the larger insoluble storage molecule that glucose is often converted to in plants, so they have a store of energy?
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Starch
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What is the name given to the sum of all the chemical reactions in the body?
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Metabolism
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Translocation is defined as being the movement of dissolved sugars through the what?
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Phloem
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What is the name of the cells in the tubes used for translocation that provide energy, as translocation is driven by active transport?
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Companion Cells
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Can water and dissolved minerals move in one or two directions in the xylem tube?
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One
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Is it xylem or phloem tubes that contain sieve plates and a continuous cytoplasm?
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Phloem
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What is the name of a junction between two neurones, that neurotransmitter chemicals diffuse across?
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Synapse
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What is the name of the hormone that raises blood glucose by stimulating breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver?
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Glucagon
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What is the name of the glands that produce adrenaline, the hormone that prepares the body for a flight or fight response?
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Adrenal
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What is the name of the plant hormone that stimulates seed germination, stem growth and flowering?
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Gibberellin
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In the accommodation reflex, when looking at a near object which structures loosen?
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Suspensory Ligaments
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What is the name of the sight defect where light focuses in front of the retina?
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Myopia
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In animal and plant cells, where does aerobic respiration occur?
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Mitochondria
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In plant cells, there are two products of anaerobic respiration, carbon dioxide, and what else?
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Ethanol
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What is the name of the loops of DNA that float in the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells?
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Plasmids
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What name is given to the process where unspecialised cells become specialised, meaning they have a specific function?
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Differentiation
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What is the term for the digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder that emulsifies lipids?
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Bile
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Which process is defined as the loss of water vapour from the leaves of a plant via the stomata?
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Transpiration
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During the reabsorption stage of urine production, glucose is reabsorbed into the blood by what process?
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Active Transport
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If water content is too low in the body, does the pituitary gland release more or less ADH?
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More
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If somebody is suffering from kidney failure, their blood may be pumped into a dialysis machine from which blood vessel type?
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Vein
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The pituitary gland releases FSH and which other fertility hormone in biological females?
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LH
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Oestrogen is a contraceptive hormone produced by which gland?
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Ovaries
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Osmosis is defined as the movement of water from a dilute to concentrated solution through a what?
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Partially Permeable Membrane
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Amylase is a digestive enzyme that breaks starch down into sugars, and is produced in the pancreas, small intestine, and where else?
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Salivary Glands
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Magnification, calculated by dividing the image size by actual size of an object, is adjusted using what on a microscope?
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Objective Lens
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