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SQA Higher Biology

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Flashcards for SQA Higher Biology, split into the course's three areas, DNA and the genome, Metabolism and survival, and Sustainability and interdependence, and then by key area in the order of the course specification (version 4.0), plus a subdeck on the apparatus, techniques and experimental terms the course names. Delete or suspend any subdeck your course leaves out once the deck is yours.

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What is inside (28 subdecks)

  • 1 DNA and the genome177 cards
    • 1.1 The structure of DNA22 cards
    • 1.2 Replication of DNA19 cards
    • 1.3 Gene expression36 cards
    • 1.4 Cellular differentiation18 cards
    • 1.5 The structure of the genome7 cards
    • 1.6 Mutations30 cards
    • 1.7 Evolution19 cards
    • 1.8 Genomic sequencing26 cards
  • 2 Metabolism and survival135 cards
    • 2.1 Metabolic pathways22 cards
    • 2.2 Cellular respiration26 cards
    • 2.3 Metabolic rate13 cards
    • 2.4 Metabolism in conformers and regulators20 cards
    • 2.5 Metabolism and adverse conditions19 cards
    • 2.6 Environmental control of metabolism18 cards
    • 2.7 Genetic control of metabolism17 cards
  • 3 Sustainability and interdependence170 cards
    • 3.1 Food supply, plant growth and productivity27 cards
    • 3.2 Plant and animal breeding29 cards
    • 3.3 Crop protection35 cards
    • 3.4 Animal welfare9 cards
    • 3.5 Symbiosis12 cards
    • 3.6 Social behaviour26 cards
    • 3.7 Components of biodiversity10 cards
    • 3.8 Threats to biodiversity22 cards
  • 4 Apparatus, techniques and experimental design16 cards
    • 4.1 Apparatus and techniques16 cards

Some of its cards

  • Name a characteristic breeders try to improve in crops and animals relating to how much they produce.
    Food yield
  • Name the three components of biodiversity.
    Genetic diversity, species diversity and ecosystem diversity
  • What is a mutation?
    A change to the DNA sequence that can stop a protein being made at all, or change the protein that is made
  • What is dormancy?
    A stage some organisms' life cycles include, letting them survive a period when staying fully active would cost too much energy
  • What is a social hierarchy?
    A rank order within a group of animals, consisting of dominant and subordinate members
  • Which enzyme replicates DNA before cell division?
    DNA polymerase
  • An organism's entire hereditary information, encoded in DNA
    Genome
  • What is cellular differentiation?
    A cell switches on the particular genes needed to make the proteins typical of one specific cell type
  • In which part of the cell does glycolysis take place?
    The cytoplasm
  • What is a spectroscope used to do, in biology practicals?
    Compare visible light and filtered light, for example when examining light transmission through a pigment

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