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Flashcards by Becca Coulson , updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Becca Coulson
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| circadian rhythm | a rhythm that happens over one day |
| photoperiodism | the way in which organisms respond to changes in day lengths |
| pasteurisation | the technique of heating things and sorting them to kill bacteria |
| memory lymphocyte | a lymphocyte that remains in the blood a long time after an infection or vaccination |
| monoclonal antibodies | many identical antibodies |
| glomerulus | blood flows along the renal arties into the network of capitilaries |
| filtration ( kidneys ) | the tiny holes let small molecules ( water, urea and glucose ) though into the nephron. big molecules ( proteins and blood cells ) stay in the blood |
| bowman's capsule | the part of the kidney tube where blood is filtered |
| convoluted tubules | a part of the kidney where glucose and other useful substances are reabsorbed into the blood. |
| loop of Henle | part of the kidney nephron that loops down and sharply upwards helps with osmoreregulation |
| osmoregulation | is the amount of water absorbed depending on how much water the body needs. |
| phenotype | what an individual looks like. |
| genotype | genetic material of the individual |
| pathogen | an organism that causes disease |
| vaccination | something that contains a vaccine , immunisation |
| metabolic reaction | a chemical reaction that takes place in a living organism |
| nephron | a kidney tubules |
| gamete | a sex cell ( sperm and egg cells ) |
| allele | different forms of a gene |
| behaviour | the way in which an animal responds to an external or internal stimuli |
| reflex | an automatic response to a stimulus |
| innate | means inborn, so it is something that you don't have to learn |
| classical conditioning | starts with an innate reflex action, but then the animal learns to respond to a new stimulus in the same way |
| habitation | a kind of learning is 'switching off ' from a repeated stimulus |
| operant conditioning | behaviour that can make something good happen or prevent something bad from happening |
| social behaviour | commutation between members of the same species |
| imprinting | the process in which young animals bind with or become attached to animals or moving objects they ca see immediately |
| co- evolution | the way in which two different species affect each others evolution |
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