A balanced diet means, that
you eat something from each
group, but in the right amounts
of each.
Protein
Fat
Fibre and Water
Vitamins and Minerals
Carbohydrates
BMI
BMI=Mass in kg/(height in M)2
Underweight= under 18.5
Normal= 18.5-25
Overweight= 25-30
Obese=over 30
Health Problems: high blood
pressure, diabetes, some cancers,
gout, Osteoarthritis, breathing
problems, gallbladder and
gallstones.
Metabolic Rate
Factors
Is the speed at which
chemical reaction
happen in the cells of
your body.
Inheritance- the genes
passed to you by your
parents
The proportion of muscles
to fat in your body, the
more muscle the higher
your metabolic rate.
Gender- men tend to have more
muscle so have a higher
metabolic rate.
Age- younger people
tend to have a higher
metabolic rate then
older people
Controlling Fertility
IVF- may be offered to couples that are infertile
This is were fertility of the egg, takes place outside the body in a Petridis or test tube. Before
the procedure takes place the women is given FSH and LH in a "Fertility drug" to stimulate
the maturation of several eggs. The subsequent producer is show in diagram.
In Vitro Fertilisation
An ethical problem associated with IVF is that there is a low success rate and that any
left over embryo's created can only be kept for 10 years and after that, they must be
destroyed. As a consequence many embryo's die and this is an issue to the people who
think embryo's have a right for life.
Decreasing Fertility: the first Pill contained oestrogen in large close
which worked by preventing the relics of the pituitary gland there by
preventing eggs from maturing. However, these resulting in women
having side effects. Many factors found that they could oestrogen
which lowered the side effects. The mini pill just contains
progesterone and isn't as reliable at preventing pregnancy.
Tropism
Slow plant responses are called tropisms. There are three
stimuli that plants respond to: Light, gravity and water.
A response to light is
phototropism, gravity is
Geotropism and water is
Hydrotropism.
Parts of a plant that grow towards the stimulus are classed a positively
topic, e.g. leaves are positively phototropism phototropic and these the
grow away from the stimuli and negatively phototropic, e.g. roots
Growth in Plants: In plants cell division
and growth takes place mainly at the
root tips and the shoot tips.
Control of Growth: the shoot tip makes hormones called auxin. It stimulates the shoot
to grow and causes the cells to elongate. It passes on auxin through diffusion,
How light affects growth: How is it controlled? When a shoot only
gets light frim one side most auxin is found on the shades side.
The auxin makes the shoot grown more on the shaded side.
The shoot bends towards the light.
How Gravity affects growth? If a plant it
put on its side the auxin builds up on the
lower side of the shoot and roots.
If the shoot the auxin stimulates
it to grow more on the lower side.
This cause the shoot to bend upwards. In the root the auxin also
builds up on the lower side. But auxin slows down growth in a root.
So the upper side of the root grows quicker then
the lower side. The root bends downwards.
Using Plant Hormones
Ethylene is a plant hormones produces by fruit as they ripen.
Converting starch into sugar. Expose unripe fruit to ethylene gas.
Weed Killer contains auxin. Causes rapid growth in
plants, plant grow themselves to death.
Root powder: Cuttings of
plants are dipped in root
powder. The hormone
auxin in powder causes
roots to grow.
Drugs:
A drug is defined as any chemical which alters
the way the body works.
1. Chemicals are identified that might make useful drugs.
2. Small amounts of the promising chemical
are made up and tested in the laboratory on
human cell cultures and tissues (group of
cells)to check for toxicity (safety).
3. The drug is tested on small mammals like mice or
rats and possibly on primates (monkeys).
4. If early tests in the lab suggest the drug is safe to use on living things the
the drug company can apply for a licence to test the drugs on humans.
5. In phase 1 of the trial, a small number (10) of healthy, informed
volunteers are given low does of the drug to check it is not toxic to humans.
6. In phase 2, around 200 patients with the disease the drug is to treat are given to find the optimum (best) does of the drug.
7. Placebo controlled, double blind trails takes place. Some patients receive the drug and some patients are given a placebo- this
looks just like the real drug but doesn't contain the drug. The trail is double blind- because neither the doctor nor the patients
know who has received the placebo or the real drug.
8. Phase 3 of the trial extends to between 1000 and 3000 patients. If the medicine seems effective and safe a licence is applied for
to enable doctors to prescribe it for a patient with that disease.
Thalidomide
Thalidomide was originally developed as a sleeping pill but in the 1950s and
early 1960s doctors also found it could be effective for morning sickness.
The unforeseen outcome of using
thalidomide in pregnant women is that
their babies were born with
deformities.
The doctors were not just aware of the outcome
in the pregnant women they prescribed
thalidomide because they hadn't done relevant
testing.
They boned it and stopped people using
them. They used it for to try and treat
bone marrow cancer.
Drugs in sport
Mask drugs: cant be found in
urine, so hide other drugs taken,
banded in all sport. Side effects
dizziness and addiction.
Beta Blockers: Slow heart
beat, helps in archery to
calm you down.
Diuretics- don't effect
performance it helps you lose
weight quickly for sport with
set weights, like house riding.
Side effects are muscle
cramps and they weaken.
Pain Killers: treat pain, act on
Brain and spinal cord. Can be
used in any sport-not in
compertion only in training.
the side effects are vomiting.
Anabolic Steroids: Stimulates muscle growth which
increases strength and endurance. The hormones
resemble testosterone and new molecules and bonds are
made/formed in cells. The side effect are acne aggression
and liver diodes.
Competition
Animals and plants have to compete for
limited resources. The best adapted
animals or plants will win and survive.
There are four resources
for which animals
compete. They are: food,
water, space/territory and
to mate.
Interspecies
Competition:
Outside the
species.
Intraspecies
Competition: in the
species
Adaptation
An adaptation is a special feature or behaviour that makes an
organism particularly suited to its habitat.
Competition in Plants
They compete for water and nutrients from the
soil. Tall plants such as trees prevent light from
reaching the plants beneath them.
Plants have many adaptations that make them good competitions.
Adaptations in Plants
Diseases
A pathogen is a scientific term
for a germ that makes you ill.
Bacteria makes you feel ill by dumping their
toxic waste into your blood stream, which
makes you feel ill.
Bacteria increase in number by
halving them self's and double form
there. In the right conditions they
can double every 20 minutes.
Viruses damage the body,
by injecting their DNA into
a cell then destroys it
making more every time in
destroying the cell.
Barriers to Infection
Eyes have lysozyme in our tears
you nose has mucus in and it
is sticky so bacteria get
trapped in the nose hair
Hair
Your stomach is lined
with mucus and has
hydrochloric acid in
there.
Skin
Finger Nails
Scabs
Mouth
Reflex Action
A reflex action is an in voluntary response
which takes place automatically
Reflex action are responsible for
running everyday actions in your
body and help you avoid danger.
The pathway the
electrical impulse takes is
known as a reflex arched.
The electrical impulse by passes the confuse area of the brain, so that
time between the stimulus and the response is as short as possible.
Hormones
Water content: Water in drink and food enters
the body.
lost in sweat.
Water lost when you
wee as well as iron.
Water is produced during
respiration in every cell.
Pituitary gland produces a hormone (ADH) that enables
kidneys to reduce water lose
breathing out
Blood suger: Pancreas eating carbs
and exercise both effect blood
glucose levels.
Insulin lowers blood gluecose.
Blood glucose levels must be kept within limits.
Controlling Temperature: core body temperature must be
maintained at 37 degrees C. If we are too hot sweat evaporate to
remove heat energy and more blood travels throught the skin to
radiate.
If we are too cold we shiver and muscle movement generates heat.
Homestasis
A hormone is a chemical produced in a gland in one part of
the body (in glandular tissue), released into the blood
stream and carried to a target organ where it brings about
an effect.
Second Line of Defence
If pathogens make it into
the blood then white blood
cells called phagocytes
engulf them and destroy
them.
This is a non-specific
response- it is the
same for all
pathogens
Smallpox
Epidemic- in one country (swine flu)
When a pathogen mutates no one has immunity.
When new strings are made they can
spread rapidly from person to person,
leading to epidemics (one country) or
pandemics (more then 3 countries).
Antibiotics and vaccines may not be effective to the
new strain.
Herd immunity- controls diseases.
If the minority of the population is vaccinated
against by a disease it is Herd immunity.
It is very hard for it to be transmitted and
the disease becomes controlled.
Third-Line of
Defence
Is the defence against infection it is
called the specific reaction. When the
white blood cells in the immune system
recognises a foreign invading, they
prepare a antibodies to fix it.
The white blood cells try
different antibodies until
they find one that matches
the antigen. The specific
antibodies lock onto the
antigen allowing the foreign
body to be destroyed.
Anti-Toxins
Bacteria makes you
feel ill by dumping
toxins/waste into
your blood. Some
white blood cells
can produce
anti-toxins that
nutrients these
toxins.
Antibiotic Resistance
It means that
bacteria's are
no longer
killed by
antibiotics.
Bacteria divides and a error is
made in copying the DNA that
leads to a mutation.
The mutation is beneficial in
that it confers resistance.
This new strain of bacteria is not
destroyed by the antibiotics.
It survives to
reproduce and pass
on the beneficial
mutation to its off
spring.
How Vaccines Work
1. A vaccine containing dead or
inactive forms of a pathogen
enters the body and triggers the
immune system to respond.
2. White blood cell produce antibodies
to attach to antigens on the surface of
the dead or inactive pathogen in the
vaccine.
3.Each pathogen requires a specific antibody
because the antigens on its surface are unique.
4.The white blood cells also make 'memory
cells' that stay in your body for years.
5. If the same microbe attacks that
body in future, the memory cells
produce antibodies to attack and
destroy it quickly.
6. You will not develop the symptoms
again. You are now 'immune' to the
disease.
Receptors and Stimuli
The nerverus system coordanates and
controls you body. It makes you aware of
changes in your surrodings and able to
make you respond to them. A change in
the environment is called a stimulus.
Specialised cells in the sence organs can
detect a stimulase are called receptor
cells.
Sight- in your eyes-
dectected by light
Taste- in your
tongue- dectected by
chemical in food.
Touch- skin- dectected by
pressure and temperature
change.
Smell- by your
nose- chemicals in
air
Hear- by your ears-
vibrations
Balance- by your ears-posision
Neurone
The Menstrual Cycle
The menstrual cycle is a sequence of events that takes place repeatedly during the fertile
part of a woman life to enable for her to reproduce. There are several significant event that
need to be coudanated if she is to has a successful pregnancy:
Building up the lining of the uterus
Maturing an egg (ovum) in to ovary- ovulation
releasing egg from an ovary
Main tainting the lining
Breaking down of the lining passing it out the body- menstration
FSH- produced in the pituitary gland, targeted organ is the ovary and effects the mature of egg and produce oestrogen.
LH- produced in the pituitary gland, targeting in the ovary's and causes ovulation (egg release).
Oestrogen- produced in the uterus and pituitary gland, target organ is ovary, starts thickening of uterine lining and stops FSH released.
Progesterone- produced in yellow body (empty follicle), targets the uterus and maintains thick lining of uterus.