Key term
AQA GCSE Combined Science Biology 8464
Bioenergetics
Cell Biology
Topic overviewEukaryotes and prokaryotesAnimal and plant cellsCell specialisation and differentiationMicroscopyChromosomes, mitosis and the cell cycleStem cells in embryos, adults and meristemsTherapeutic cloning, its risks, and cloning plantsDiffusion and the factors affecting its rateSurface area to volume ratio and exchange surfacesOsmosisActive transport
Ecology
Topic overviewLevels of organisation in an ecosystem, and what organisms needCompetition, interdependence and stable communitiesAbiotic factorsBiotic factorsAdaptationsProducers, food chains and sampling with quadrats and transectsPredators, prey and measuring population sizeHow materials are cycledWaste management and biodiversityLand use, deforestation and global warmingMaintaining biodiversity
Homeostasis and Response
Infection and Response
Inheritance, Variation and Evolution
Topic overviewSexual and asexual reproductionMeiosisDNA and the genomeGenetic terms, dominant and recessive allelesPunnett squares, probability and genetic crossesInherited disorders and sex determinationVariationEvolutionSelective breedingWhat genetic engineering is, and what it is used forGM crops, their risks, and the steps of the processEvidence for evolution, and extinctionFossilsResistant bacteriaClassification of living organisms
Organisation
Topic overviewLevels of organisation, and how enzymes workAmylase, proteases and lipasesBile, food tests and the effect of pH on amylaseThe heart, the lungs and double circulationThe pacemaker, the blood vessels and the bloodCoronary heart disease: a non-communicable diseaseHealth issuesRisk factors and causal mechanisms in diseaseSampling, correlation and interpreting risk dataCancerPlant tissues, and transpiration and its rateRoot hair cells, xylem, phloem and stomata
Cell Biology
Diffusion and the factors affecting its rate
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Overview
The definition of diffusion and net movement, substances such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and urea that diffuse into and out of cells, and how concentration gradient, temperature and membrane surface area affect the rate.
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Key term
Name two gases moved in and out of cells by diffusion during gas exchange.
Key term
In which direction does oxygen diffuse at a respiring cell, and why?
Questions from this subtopic
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Name the process by which many dissolved substances and gases pass through cell membranes without energy being used.
Model answer
Diffusion.
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Define diffusion.
Model answer
The spreading out of particles of a substance in solution, or of a gas, giving a net movement from a higher to a lower concentration.
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What is meant by a net movement of particles?
Model answer
Particles move in both directions, but more move one way than the other, so overall there is movement in that direction.
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What happens to the net movement of a substance once its concentration is the same on both sides of a membrane?
Model answer
There is no net movement, although the particles continue to move randomly in both directions.
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Name two gases moved in and out of cells by diffusion during gas exchange.
Model answer
Oxygen and carbon dioxide.
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Which waste substance diffuses out of cells into the blood plasma?
Model answer
Urea.
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