Pearson GCSE Separate Science Biology
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| Which cell structure is found in plant and animal cells but not in bacterial cells? | show 🗑
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| show | (any communicable/infectious disease, e.g. flu or a cold)
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| show | (any non-communicable disease, e.g. cancer, diabetes)
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| Name a type of organism that can cause disease. | show 🗑
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| Suggest one way in which infectious diseases are spread. | show 🗑
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| What might a doctor give to someone who has a bacterial disease? | show 🗑
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| Give one symptom of flu. | show 🗑
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| show | (protect against infection)
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| Which term describes bacteria that are not harmed by an antibiotic? | show 🗑
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| show | (any suitable answer such as: avoid infection, get regular exercise, eat a good diet, avoid stress)
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| Which term means when part or all of the body is not working properly for a reason other than injury? | show 🗑
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| Lung cancer, as a result of smoking, is which kind of disease? | show 🗑
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| show | (communicable/infectious diseases)
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| show | (they change in a similar way)
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| show | (anything similar to: first disease damages immune system, first disease damages natural barriers to infection, first disease damages organ system)
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| What is meant by causation? | show 🗑
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| show | (anything similar to: absence of disease, healthy diet, sleeping well, regular activity, limiting the intake of harmful substances)
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| show | (anything similar to: how well you get on with people, how your surroundings affect you)
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| show | (anything similar to: feeling happy, feeling good about yourself)
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| show | (deficiency diseases/diseases due to poor diet)
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| show | (non-communicable)
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| show | (genetic disease)
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| show | (a poor diet/diet without the right balance of nutrients)
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| show | (not getting enough of a nutrient from food)
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| show | (any suitable answer such as anaemia, kwashiorkor, scurvy)
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| Give an example of a lifestyle factor that is linked to disease. | show 🗑
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| show | (increase)
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| show | (It breaks down toxic substances including alcohol.)
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| show | (any suitable answer such as cost of treating people with liver disease, loss of working days, increased risk of deaths by drink driving)
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| show | (disease of the heart and/or circulatory system)
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| show | (non-communicable)
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| Name two ways of measuring obesity. | show 🗑
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| How does diet affect obesity? | show 🗑
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| show | (More exercise can decrease obesity.)
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| How is obesity correlated with cardiovascular disease? | show 🗑
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| show | (The more a person smokes, the greater the person’s risk of cardiovascular disease.)
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| show | : bypass surgery or stent surgery; lifelong medication such as to prevent blood clots or reduce blood pressure; lifestyle changes such as giving up smoking, increasing exercise or changing diet)
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| show | (a microorganism that causes disease in/harms the body)
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| show | (communicable)
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| show | (virus)
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| show | (protist)
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| Which species is affected by chalara dieback? | show 🗑
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| Which type of pathogen causes cholera? | show 🗑
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| Which organ does tuberculosis damage? | show 🗑
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| Which pathogen causes haemorrhagic fever? | show 🗑
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| show | (damage to blood and liver, fever)
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| What are the symptoms of infection by Helicobacter? | show 🗑
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| show | (by destroying infected wood)
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| Why does killing mosquitoes help prevent malaria? | show 🗑
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| show | (bacterium, Helicobacter)
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| show | (virus)
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| How is Ebola spread? | show 🗑
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| show | (avoid drinking infected water/boil or treat water to kill the cholera pathogen)
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| show | (by isolating infected people)
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| show | (vector)
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| Which organism carries the pathogen that causes malaria from one host to another? | show 🗑
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| How does the malarial pathogen get into its host? | show 🗑
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| Name one part of a bacterium that is not found in virus particles. | show 🗑
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| How do viruses replicate? | show 🗑
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| Which two parts are found in all viruses? | show 🗑
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| show | (genetic material/genes)
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| show | (animal cell,bacterium, virus)
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| Name one example of a virus. | show 🗑
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| show | (to make more viruses/replicate)
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| show | (lysogenic)
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| In which pathway are cells damaged or destroyed as new viruses leave them? | show 🗑
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| What is the formula for calculating the cross-sectional area of a cylinder? | show 🗑
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| Which outer layer of leaves and stems can help to keep pathogens out of plant tissues? | show 🗑
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| Name one medicine used to treat human illness that has been developed from a substance taken from plants. | show 🗑
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| Which outer layer of leaves is a physical barrier to plant pathogens? | show 🗑
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| show | (cell wall)
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| Name one chemical defence that plants use against pests or pathogens. | show 🗑
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| Which disease is the plant substance artemisinin used to treat? | show 🗑
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| Name one symptom of disease that the medicine aspirin is used to relieve. | show 🗑
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| Which term describes methods used to kill microorganisms on equipment before carrying out experiments with bacteria, fungi or cells? | show 🗑
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| show | (autoclave)
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| show | (keep them covered)
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| show | (lesions on bark, or crown dieback)
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| show | (any suitable answer involving an environmental cause, such as drought, flooding, too much heat, lack of a nutrient)
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| Which term means using evidence to suggest what is causing infection? | show 🗑
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| show | (any two suitable such as: nutrient deficiency, drought, waterlogging, heat stress, cold, wind)
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| show | (any one suitable, such as yellow/non-green leaves, curled leaves, spotted leaves)
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| show | (soil nutrient test)
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| Which term means looking at how a disease spreads through a crop over time? | show 🗑
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| Suggest one lab test that might identify the pathogen causing plant disease. | show 🗑
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| Describe one physical barrier that plants have to infection. | show 🗑
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| show | (any one suitable such as: AIDS/HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis)
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| Which barrier to infection traps pathogens and dirt in the lungs? | show 🗑
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| Name a chemical defence against infection in the stomach. | show 🗑
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| Which barrier to infection covers the body? | show 🗑
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| Why does that barrier protect against infection? | show 🗑
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| show | (movement of cilia)
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| How does the chemical defence in the stomach help to protect against infection? | show 🗑
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| show | (lysozyme)
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| show | (The enzyme breaks down bacterial cell walls.)
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| show | (sexually transmitted infections/STIs)
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| show | (any answer that indicates prevention of contact with sexual fluids, or infected breast milk to a baby)
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| show | (presence of pathogen/antigen in body)
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| show | (antibodies)
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| Which type of blood cell is important in the immune response? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the molecules on pathogens that the immune system responds to? | show 🗑
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| show | (memory lymphocytes)
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| show | (to protect against further infection by the same pathogen)
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| show | (no [usually])
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| show | (faster and much larger production of antibodies)
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| Which name is given to the inactive form of a pathogen used in immunisation? | show 🗑
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| Why are people immunised against diseases? | show 🗑
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| show | (antibiotics)
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| When possible new medicines are being developed, what are they tested on in the first stage of testing? | show 🗑
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| show | (they kill bacteria/inhibit bacterial growth)
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| show | (different structure/processes)
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| show | (viruses have no cell processes)
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| Name one type of white blood cell that attacks bacteria. | show 🗑
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| What do some white blood cells produce in vast amounts when they come into contact with the antigens of a pathogen? | show 🗑
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| Given one reason why new medicines are first tested on cell or tissue cultures. | show 🗑
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| show | (humans/people)
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| Which name is given to the unintended effects of a medicine, some of which may be harmful? | show 🗑
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| show | (monoclonal antibodies)
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| show | (identifying blood clots/cancer cells)
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