Eye & Ear
Homeostasis & Brain
Nerves & Hormones
Male & Female
Reproduction general
100
Controls the amount of light getting into the eye
What is the function of the iris?
100
The maintenance of a constant internal environment despite changes in the surroundings.
What is homeostasis?
100
This system acts more slowly than the nervous system.
What is the endocrine system?
100
The structures in which the gametes are produced in the male and female.
What are the ovary and the testes?
100
Result when a single fertilised egg splits in two.
What are indentical twins?
200
A coiled, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear
What is the cochlea?
200
A mass of wrinkled tissue that makes up 90% of the brain and is responsible for complex thoughts, sense, muscle control, memory and thinking.
What is the cerebrum?
200
This gland provides the vital link between the nervous and endocrine systems.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This cycle takes about 28 days on average and prepares the uterus for a fertilised egg.
What is the menstrual cycle?
200
The condom, diaphragm and the pill are examples of these.
What are contraceptives?
300
A technology that allows people who have an ear defect that causes a reduction in the amount of vibration reaching the auditory nerves.
What is a hearing aid?
300
This is the visual processing area of the brain.
What is occipital lobe?
300
These are fast actions, occuring automatically and without thinking.
What is a reflex action?
300
The place where the fertilisation takes place.
What is the fallopian tube?
300
IVF stands for this.
What is in vitro fertilisation.
400
This is a condition, also called short-sightedness, that can be corrected by wearing concave lenses.
What is myopia?
400
This is the base of the brain. It controls complex muscular movements like cycling, walking and running.
What is the cerebellum?
400
A fatty white substance that insulates the axons of nerves.
What is myelin?
400
The scientific term for a fertilised egg.
What is a zygote?
400
Budding, spore formation and fragmentation are examples of this.
What is asexual reproduction?
500
This technology is used to reshape the cornea.
What is LASIK (or, laser surgery)?
500
These are examples for scientific terms: a) thermostat detects the change b) thermostat turns heater on c) increasing temperature is detected
What are stimulus, response and feedback?
500
These are the three types of nerves: a) have specialised endings sensitive to stimuli such as heat and light b) also known as connecting neurons, these transfer messages within the CNS c) transfer messages from the CNS to effector organs, such as muscles
What is sensory neuron, interneuron and motor neuron?
500
From weeks 3-8, a developing baby in the uterus is known as this.
What is an embryo?
500
This process of cell division causes the number of chromosomes to be reduced by half (2n -> n).
What is meiosis?
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