Slide Preview for B1 Understanding Organisms

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This slideshow covers the Understanding Organisms module from the OCR Gateway 2011 course and includes: Fitness and health, modern diets and obesity, the circulatory system, arteries and veins, heart disease, high blood pressure, measuring blood pressure, smoking, saturated fats, balanced diets, choices of diet, proteins, storing glucose, body-mass index, eating disorders, pathogens, defending against microbes, what pathogens do to us, white blood cells, producing antibodies, fighting diseases, vaccinations, developing new drugs, placebos, malaria, cancer, brain tumours, the eye, binocular and monocular vision, focussing on different objects, problems with vision, the nervous system, nerve cells, synapses, conscious actions, reflex actions, drugs, legal and illegal drugs, reaction times, steroids, diffusion in the lungs, damaging the lungs through smoking, tobacco and lung cancer, the effects of alcohol, homeostasis, measuring and regulating body temperature, controlling body temperature, heat stroke, hypothermia, controlling blood sugar levels, diabetes, plant growth, plant hormones, artificial plant hormones, variation, environmental differences, sexual reproduction, chromosomes, genes, monohybrid cross diagrams, determining eye colour and inherited diseases, the debate over nature vs nurture.