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- Subject: Biology
- AS: AS90929
- Level: 1
- Credits: 3
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Biology 1.5 Demonstrate understanding of biological ideas relating to a mammal as a consumer
Subject content
Make sure you have up-to-date course notes and don't forget to use them. If you haven't got them see your teacher.
These are the topics you may be tested on:
- the overall function of
- processing food
- circulation
- respiration
- how the parts of the digestive system function
- buccal cavity (mouth – including structure of a generalised tooth)
- salivary glands
- oesophagus
- stomach
- duodenum
- bile duct
- liver
- gall bladder
- pancreas
- pancreatic duct
- ileum
- caecum
- appendix
- colon
- rectum
- anus
- how food is ingested
- how food is processed by physical digestion – chewing, churning, emulsification
- how food is processed by chemical digestion – enzymes, acid
- absorption of processed food
- assimilation of processed food
- egestion of processed food wastes
- how and where peristalsis occurs
- transport of the products of digestion within the body by the circulation system
- how the parts of the circulation system function
- heart (names of structures within the organ are not required)
- veins
- arteries
- capillaries
- use of food in cells in aerobic respiration (raw materials and products)
- function of lungs (names of structures within the organ are not required)
- relate processing of food, circulation and respiration to each other and to the overall survival of the mammal.
