Biology unit 1

What 7 things does a healthy diet contain?

What is metabolic rate?

What factors affect metabolic rate?

What are the two types of metabolic rate and what are they?

What does a low metabolic rate mean?

What is an epidemic?

What is a pathogen?

Draw the structure of a bacteria cell and label it

Draw a virus and label it

What are inherited diseases?

What are mutations?

How are mutations caused?

What are the 4 major types of pathogens?

Name some diseases caused by bacteria

Name some diseases caused by viruses

Name some disease caused by fungi

Name some diseases caused by protozoa (live inside animals)

What do you have more of in your blood - red or white blood cells?

What is phagocytosis?

What are the three types of white blood cell and what do they do?

What do vaccinations contain?

How do vaccinations work?

How do antibiotic resistant bacteria come about?

What does aseptic mean?

What does aseptic technique mean?

How do you aseptically grow bacteria?

What are drugs?

What does addicted mean?

Give some examples of withdrawal symptoms

Name three legal drugs

Name three illegal drugs

Name the addictive drug in cigarettes

Name the addictive drug in alcoholic drinks

What class of drug is cannabis?

Give two harmful effects of smoking cannabis

Name a carcinogen found in cigarette smoke

What does alcohol do to you?

What are extraneous variables?

What is the placebo effect?

What is a blind trial?

What is a double blind trial?

What are the three stages of drug development and why are they carried out?

What is an antiseptic?

Who was Ignaz Semmelweis?

Where is cholesterol made?

What is cholesterol needed for?

What do statins do?

What happens if your cholesterol is too high?

What affects the amount of cholesterol you have?

What are antibiotics?

What is the first line of defence?

What is the second line of defence?

Third line of defence?