Module 2 Summary Biology
Module 2 Summary Biology
Colonial Individual unicellular organisms living intact with each other with some cooperation
between cells.
No cell speciation
Advantages to individuals living in colonies but can live independently if
needed.
Unicellular ability to
Unicellular organisms reproduce quickly due to their simplistic structure.
cope with different
bacteria reproduce through binary fission.
environments
Individually, it is exposed to the harsh external environment.
Easily affected by environmental change
Colonial organisms can cope with changing environments decently well as the cells
can corporate and communicate with each other.
May coordinate efficient functioning.
Always colonial organism to move towards light or food source to process
waste more efficiently.
Efficient and flexible to change as the cells are specialised and able to carry out their
roles.
Internal environment is highly efficient due to specialisation.
Processing of nutrients + wastes is highly effective e.g. humans have lines
of defence of specialised cells to evade antigens.
Relating structure of cells and cell specialisation to function
Intro When cells become specialised to perform a particular function, they are said to
differentiate develop suitable structural features that allow them to carry out their
specific functions.
Cell differentiation The process that a stem cell goes through to become specialised.
Investigate the structure and function of tissues, organs and systems and relate those functions to cell
differentiation and specialisation
Cell specialisation in - Specialised cells that perform a function are organised into tissues.
multicellular organisms - Different types of tissues that are grouped together to perform a particular
function are called organs.
- Different organs are grouped together to form an organ system.
- Numerous organs make up a multicellular organism.
Cell organisation –
speciation and
functioning animal
cells
Epithelial tissue
- Covers body surfaces.
- Protects organs.
- Form glands.
- Cells are densely/closely packed.
- Can occur in single sheets or layers.
- Does not contain blood vessels connective tissue underneath provides
nutrients.
- Good barriers to injury and infection.
Connective tissue
- Extracellular matrix
- Matrix is composed of collagen strength and elastin flexibility.
- Provides support, protects against damage, ensures different parts of the body
are bound together.
- E.g. adipose tissue, cartilage, collagen in skin
Nervous tissue
- Brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves
- Highly specialised for communication
- Nerve cell – neurons
Muscle tissue
- Highly specialised for contraction
- Skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and smooth muscle.
Plant systems.
1. The short system – above ground
2. The root system – below ground
3. The vascular system – transport (xylem, phloem)
Meristematic tissue
- Tips of roots and shorts
- Buds in woody plans
Dermal tissue
- Protects
- Outer layers
- Controls interactions with surroundings
- Secretes waxy layer – cuticle.
- Root hairs – increase surface area.
Vascular tissue
- Transport
- Xylem – water and minerals
- Phloem – sugar
Ground tissue
- All the internal cells apart from the vascular tissue
- Food storage, support and photosynthesis.
Justify the hierarchical structural organisation of organelles, cells, tissues, organs, systems and organisms.
Organelle Specialised structures that perform specific functions
- Enable cells to carry out their various activities, such as energy production,
protein synthesis and waste management.
Organs Composed of multiple tissue types working together to perform a specific function.
- The heart is an organ composed of muscle tissue, nervous tissue. Organs are
specialised to carry out more complex tasks that individual tissues cannot
achieve alone.
Organ system - A collection of organs that carry out specific functions within an organism.
Stem
- Structural support + transport
- Stem tissues
o Dermal – outer layer, waterproofing, protection, controls gas
exchange
o vascular – xylem and phloem
o ground – fills in around the vascular tissue.
Leaves
- photosynthesis and transpiration
- leaves photosynthesis thin, flat, large SA, epidermis is transparent.
- mesophyll cells palisade and spongy.
Hot/dry environment - gases exchange in leaves – within epidermis – guard cells that control the
leaves difference exchange of gases and the loss of water, bean shaped, occurs in pairs,
surround a pore known as stoma (stomata usually occur in the underside of
the leaf)
- transport – vascular tissue continuous. Main vein = midrib. Veins contain
xylem + phloem.
- respiration in plants – day + night, oxygen required comes from the oxygen
produced as a by-product from photosynthesis. Co2 released as a result of
respiration in the day is used a reactant in photosynthesis.
Stomata - Pores in the epidermis through which the gases oxygen and carbon dioxide
can move in and out of
- Mostly found on the under surface, some found on the upper epidermis.
- 2 bean shaped cells called guard cells.
- Guard cells contain chloroplast.
- Plant cells need to balance exchange of gases without losing too much water –
stomata can open and close.
- Open gases diffuse through them.
- Close no gases are transported, and no water is lost.
- Opening/ closing determined on environmental factors light – open in day,
close at night.
- Open water is lost. Temperature increases, more vapour lost, water content
of the cell map drop – guard cellulose some of their water and stomata will
close.
- Water lowered, limits photosynthesis build-up of carbon dioxide in the
lead, cause stomata to close restricting the entry of carbon dioxide.
Lenticels - pores through which gaseous exchange occurs in the woody part of plant.
- Trunks, branches, woody shrub, appears as small dots.
- Diffusion is slow.
Gas exchange in animals - All animals movement of gases between internal and external
environments
- Diffusion across cell membranes
All gaseous exchange 1. Large SA folding, branching, flattening faster rate of diffusion.
structures have: 2. Most thin surface easier diffusion of gases + less distance
3. Close to an efficient transport system efficient transport to all parts of the
body
4. Great concentration of gas on one side versus the other gradient is
maintained.
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WEEK 8 : MAMMALIAN DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Interpret a range of secondary-sourced information to evaluate processes, claims and conclusions that have
led scientists to develop hypotheses, theories and models about the structure and function of plants,
including but not limited to:
o Photosynthesis
o Transpiration-cohesion-tension theory (TCT theory)
Trace the digestion of foods in the mammalian digestive system including.
o Physical digestion
o Chemical digestion
o Absorption of nutrients, minerals, and water
o Elimination of solid waste
Compare the nutrient and gas requirements of autotrophs and heterotrophs.
Interpret a range of secondary-sourced information to evaluate processes, claims and conclusions
that have led scientists to develop hypotheses, theories and models about the structure and function
of plants, including but not limited to:
o Photosynthesis
Driving force: High- and low-pressure regions in the phloem high to low pressure
Source
energy is required to actively pump sugars into phloem.
creates a concentrated solution into the phloem.
water drawn in my osmosis from xylem – creates a region of high pressure
at the source.
Where glucose is produced
Sink
energy actively required to remove the sugars from the phloem.
dilute solution water to leave the phloem tissue by osmosis + return to the
xylem tissue low pressure region formed.
difference in pressure – source + sink movement of substances in the
phloem i.e.; sap flows from high to low pressure and a flow is continuous
Flowering tissue
- Xylem vessels continuous tubes for transport of water. When cells
specialise to become xylem vessels, the walls break down so that cells stacked
on top of another become continuous tubes (reinforced with lignin)
Phloem
Sieve tube cells = long thin phloem cells, large pores through the cell wall at
either end
perforated cell walls are called sieve plates.
Sieve tube cells share cytoplasm channel through which sugars and other
plant products can flow.
Companion cells are found alongside sieve tubes (function unknown) ……
possibly provide ATP and nutrients and help with loading and unloading of
sugars into the sieve tube cells
Small intestine (chem - Chyme from stomach small intestine through the pyloric sphincter
digestion) - SI highly folded for efficient SA – 7m long in adult, 3 regions – duodenum,
jejunum, ileum
- Chyme stimulates the release of a hormone pancreatic juices.
- Pancreatic juices trypsin + lipase
- Liquids present in chyme. bile released into the duodenum.
- Bile produced by liver, stored in gall bladder. Use: breaks down/emulsifies
fats into smaller pieces, increase SA for lipase
- Food enters the jejunum absorption takes place.
Villi
- Digested food once absorbed into the blood liver.
- Food metabolism
- Sugars, glycogen, proteins levels in balance
- Detoxifies blood.
- Remaining undigested material moves into the large intestine water, salts,
fibre.
- 2 main sections – colon and rectum
Colon – water and some salts are absorbed back into the bloodstream.
- Undigested material compacting into a more solid substance.
Remaining waste moved into the rectum by peristalsis and egested through the
anus.
Liver
Large intestine
Heterotrophs
Investigate transport systems in animals and plants by comparing structures and components using
physical and digital models, including but not limited to:
o macroscopic structures in plants and animals
o microscopic samples of blood, the cardiovascular system and
plant vascular systems
investigate the exchange of gases between the internal and external environments of plants and animals.
compare the structures and function of transport systems in animals and plants, including but not limited
to:
o vascular systems in plants and animals
o open and closed transport systems in animal
compare the changes in the composition of the transport medium as it moves around an organism.
Investigate transport systems in animals and plants by comparing structures and components using
physical and digital models, including but not limited to:
o macroscopic structures in plants and animals
o microscopic samples of blood, the cardiovascular system and
plant vascular systems
Open/closed circulatory Similarities
systems. - contain the heart as a driving mechanism, a fluid that transports systems and a
system of vessels.
- Nutrients required to transport to tissues.
- Waste not needed, transported away from tissues.
Differences
- Lymph: fluid that surrounds cells and diffuses out of capillaries as they pass
Lymphatic system.
through tissues (white blood cells and the end products of lipid digestion)
- Lymph vessels absorb.
- Lymph tissues to heart, valves move in one direction.
- Helped by muscles.
- Channels drain into veins allowing fluid to re-join blood.
- Helps prevent a build-up of fluid in the tissues maintain the volume of
blood + blood pressure.
- Defence role.
- Blood = fluid transport medium that flows through the heart + blood vessels pf
Circulatory system
the cardiovascular system in vertebrates, supplying cells with nutrients +
removing wastes
- Two main components blood cells, plasma
Vein
- Return blood to the heart.
- Thin walls – lower pressure
- Few elastic fibres
- Internal diameter is much wider – ease of blood flow, 2 ways they prevent
backflow of blood.
o When the muscles in the tissue that surround the vein contract, walls of
the veins are compressed, propelling the blood towards the heart.
o Veins have valves to prevent backflow.
- Deoxygenated blood returns from the body to the RA of the heart via the 2
large veins – vena cava
- It then moves to the right ventricle.
- Pumped via the pulmonary artery to the lungs.
- CO2 diffuses from blood alveoli, O2 diffuse from the alveoli into the
blood.
- Blood now oxygenated.
Blood flow through the - Returns to the left atrium of the heart via the pulmonary vein.
heart - Moves to the left ventricle where it is pumped via the aorta to all areas of the
body.
- Muscular wall (septum) separates the left + right hand side of the heart.
- Heart: cardiac muscle heartbeat when it contracts
- Left hand side, thicker wall ventricle pumps blood to all areas of the body.
- Pumping of oxygenated blood all parts of the body, return of deoxygenated
blood systemic circulation.
- pathway of blood form the heart to the lungs + back to the heart pulmonary
Heart circulation
compare the changes in the composition of the transport medium as it moves around an organism.
Function of the transport 1. blood passes through all organs and tissues (except lungs) concentration of
system in animals O2 decreases CO2 increases cellular respiration.
deliver nutrients + gases 2. blood moves through the lungs gains oxygen by diffusion from the alveoli,
to the cells + collect and removes carbon dioxide.
remove wastes 3. blood moves through all organs and tissues, nutrients such as glucose move
out of blood into the cells and wastes move in the opposite direction.
4. blood passed through the small intestine increase in digestive end products
(glucose and amino acids) travel in the blood stream from the digestive
tract directly to liver.
5. stomach water diffuse into the blood along with other substances e.g.
alcohol. Fatty acids empty into the blood stream lymphatic system. Blood
entering the heart has a high lipid content. This is then metabolised in the
liver.
6. in the liver
o decrease in digestive end products (glucose, fatty acids, amino acids)
as the liver is the centre of food metabolism.
o glucose added or removed.
o urea added to blood (proteins are broken down and nitrogen is
removed)
o toxins and other substance such as alcohol are removed from the
blood.
o some vitamins + iron is removed.
7. Kidneys – amount of urea is decreased (kidneys filter). Blood leaving the
kidneys had the lowest % of nitrogenous waste. Excess water + salts are
removed from the blood.
8. Large intestine water salts and vitamins are absorbed into the blood.
9. Endocrine glands hormones are added