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What is the eye an example of?
A sense organ
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What is a synapse?
A junction between two neurones
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What are hormones?
Chemicals secreted by glands
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How are hormones transported around the body?
In the Bloodstream
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What part of the body secretes FSH?
The pituitary gland
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What part of the body secretes oestrogen?
The ovaries
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What is the function of the hormone LH?
LH causes a mature egg to be released
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Oral contraceptives likely to contain which hormones?
Oestrogen and progesterone
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Which hormones may be used in fertility treatment?
FSH and LH
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Shoots are:
positively phototropic but negatively gravitropic
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Roots are:
negatively phototropic but positively gravitropic
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Which statement about auxins is correct?
They move through the plant in solution.
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A phototropism involves a response to:
Light
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Where is auxin made in a plant?
In the growing tip of a shoot or root
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When a root bends in the direction of the force of gravity:
the top side grows more than the bottom side
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