REVISION 4 - ORDINARY LEVEL BIOLOGY-EDEXCEL

1. What is the name of for the narrow opening between the uterus and the vagina? 2. Where is the prostate gland and what is its function? 3. Explain how ovulation happens. 4. Where are sperm made? 5. How does an egg travel along the oviduct? 6. What is semen? 7. Where does fertilization takes place? 8. What is formed when an egg and sperm fuse together? 9. What kind of cell division takes place in the growth of an embryo? 10. From where does the very young embryo obtain its food? 11. What is implantation? 12. How is the fetus connected to the plasma? 13. Describe how the structure of the placenta helps diffusion between the mothers and the fetuss blood to take place quickly. 14. List 2 substances which pass from the mothers blood into the foetus blood. 15. What is the function of the amnion? 16. How long is the gestation period in humans? 17. Describe what happens to each of the following during the birth of a baby. Muscles in the uterus wall, cervix, placenta 18. Draw a comparison to show the advantages of breast feeding compared with bottle feeding. 19. What is meant by adolescent and puberty?

20. What are androgens? 21. list 2 effects of androgens. 22. What kind of energy does a plant use to make carbon dioxide combine with water? 23. What is chlorophyll? 24. What happens when sunlight falls on a chlorophyll molecule? 25. What does a balanced equation show? 26. What is another name for a leaf stalk? 27. Which kind of cells make the cuticle on a leaf. 28. What is the function of the cuticle? 29. What are stomata? 30. What are guard cells? 31. List 3 kinds of cells in a leaf which contain chloroplast and one kind which does not. 32. What are the raw materials needed for photosynthesis. 33. What percentage of the air is carbon dioxide? 34. How does carbon dioxide get into a leaf? 35. How does a leaf obtain its water? 36. Give 2 reasons why leaves need to have a large surface area. 37. Why are leaves thin? 38. Why is glucose not very good for storing in a leaf? 39. What substances does a plant need to be able to convert glucose into proteins? 40. Why do plants need magnesium? 41. How do parts of the plant such as the roots, which cannot photosynthesize obtain food?

42. Copy and complete the table. Obtained from Nitrates Water Magnesium Carbon dioxide Used for

43. Why do plants need such elaborate transport systems as mammals? 44. What do xylem vessels carry? 45. What do phloem tubes carry? 46. What substances make up the cell walls of xylem vessels? 47. Give 3 ways in which phloem tubes differ from xylem vessels. 48. What is a vascular bundle? 49. Where in a leaf do you find xylem and phloem? 50. Describe one function of xylem other than transport of water and minerals. 51. In which part of a root are root hairs found? 52. Suggest why root hairs are not found at the very tip of the root. 53. Explain why water moves into root hair cells from the soil. 54. How does water travel from a root hair cell to a xylem vessel. 55. Why does water move up the xylem vessels? *************** THE END ****************