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Biological Processes
Biological Processes
- Decomposers
- Multicellular except yeast
- Cell walls arent made of cellulose
- Contains nuclei
- Have hyphae as a body
- Feed by digesting waste organic
material and absorbing it into their
cells
Birds - Feathers
- Beak
- Two limbs are wings
- Lay eggs with hard shells
Mammals - Hair on skin
- Young develops in uterus, attached
to mother by placenta
- Females produce milk to their
young
- Different kinds of teeth
- Have pinna on the outside of the
body
- Sweat glands on skin
- They have a diaphgram
Root hair: this is due to the special Plants: root hair cells take in nitrate ions
carrier proteins in the root hair cell’s from the soil. The concentration of nitrate
membrane that allows the cell to pick up ions inside the root hair cell is usually
nitrate ions from outside the cell and then higher than their concentration in the
change shape with energy from foil. Therefore the diffusion gradient for
respiration so they can push the nitrate the nitrate ions is out of the root hair
ions through the cell membrane and into however root hair cells are still able to
the cell’s cytoplasm. take nitrate ions in with the help of
active transport.
Role of liver in digestion Secretes fluid called bile that helps with
digestion of fat
Water from soil to xylem vessel 1. Water enters root via osmosis
2. Water passes across the root, from
cell to cell, by osmosis. Seeping
between the cells
3. Water is drawn up by the xylem
vessels due to the water being
removed at the top
Transpiration [water moving from xylem 1. Water moves from the xylem
to the air through the plant leaf] vessels to the mesophyll cells via
osmosis
2. Water evaporates from the surface
of the mesophyll cell walls
3. Water vapour diffuses out the air
spaces through the stomata
How water moves upwards in xylem 1. Pressure at the top of the xylem
is lower than the pressure at the
top
2. This difference in pressure is
called a transpirational pull and is
caused by the loss of water vapour
How an image is focused onto the retina 1. Light enters through the
cornea which is a clear
outer layer around the eye
and refracts the light rays
2. The light passes through
the pupil – pupil controls
how much light enters the
eye
3. The light rays make its way
onto the lens which is
located behind the pupil
and refracts the light rays
4. The lens then focuses the
light rays onto the retina
5. The focused imagine
stimulate the
photoreceptors on the retina
which converts it as an
electrical signal
6. These electrical signals are
then sent through the optic
nerve and into the brain
7. The brain then interprets
and processes these images
How auxin controls phototropism in a shoot – auxin is made all the time by the
cells in the tip of the shoot and it
diffuses downwards from the tip, into the
rest of the shoot
1. Auxins make the cells just behind
the tip elongate (the more auxin
there is, the faster they elongate)
2. When light shines onto the shoot
from all around, the auxin gets
distributed evenly around the tip
of the shoot therefore the cells all
elongate at the same rate
when light shines onto the shoot from one
side,
a. The auxins at the tip concentrates
on the shady side
b. Causing the tip on the shady side
to elongate faster than the ones
on the bright
c. causing the shoot to bend towards
the light
Kidneys – urine formation in the – blood flows into the kidney from the
nephrons renal artery. This divides to form many
coiled capillaries called the glomeruli