Biology gcse revision

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Across
  1. 2. What type of pathogen does an antibiotic not work on?
  2. 4. The part of your brain that controls unconcious activities like breathing and your heart rate.
  3. 6. What is the mass of living material that makes up an organism?
  4. 7. Which type of bacteria turns ammonia in decaying matter into nitrites and then into nitrates?
  5. 11. What type of organism carries out decomposition?
  6. 15. What is used to absorb carbon dioxide in the investigating respiration practical?
  7. 16. Which hormone stimulates growth in the plant?
  8. 18. What happens to enzymes when the pH of a solution gets too high?
  9. 20. Which muscles causes the hairs to stand up when you’re too cold?
  10. 21. The characteristic that alleles give a whole organism.
Down
  1. 1. Which gland is often known as the “master gland”?
  2. 3. What is the zone called around an antibiotic in an agar plate where the bacteria has been killed?
  3. 5. Which acid is produced during anaerobic respiration in animals?
  4. 8. A sequence of 3 bases that can be read to create an amino acid.
  5. 9. What is used to join the sticky ends of the desired gene to the plasmid DNA of a bacteria?
  6. 10. What type of microscope is used in a school lab?
  7. 12. What is the name of the square used to study the distribution of small organisms?
  8. 13. What is the name of the small sacs of air in the lungs where gas exchange takes place?
  9. 14. What is a living organism that can transmit infectious pathogens between humans, or from animal to human?
  10. 17. Which transport vessel is used to transport water and minerals up the plant?
  11. 19. Where a cell divides into two daughter diploid cells and then each daughter cell divides again into four haploid daughter cells.