Unicellular and Multicellular organisms

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How does the paramecium take part in metabolism?
Produces enzymes which catalyse reactions in the cytoplasm
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How does a paramecium respond to its external environment?
Uses cilia to move/ stick to surfaces and reverse its direction when it comes into contact with a solid object
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How does the paramecium take part in homeostasis?
Contractive vacuole expels excess water and plasma membrane controls passage of substances
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How does the paramecium grow?
Mitosis and by accumulating organic matter and minerals from food to increase its dry mass and size
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How does the paramecium reproduce?
Meiosis and gametes
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How does the paramecium excrete?
Diffusion/ active transport through the surface
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How does the paramecium get nutrition?
Ingests and digests smaller organisms in vesicles and stores it in the food vacuole
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How does an algae chlorella excrete?
Diffusion using the plasma membrane to control the passage of substances in and out of the cell
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How does the algae chlorella gain nutrients?
Photosynthesis in the chloroplasts produces glucose and oxygen
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How does the algae chlorella reproduce?
Mitosis
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What happens to the surface area: volume ratio as a cell gets bigger?
Decreases
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Why do cells need to be small?
If a cell is too large, it cannot take in or excrete substances quickly because the substances have further to travel which could poison the cell
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The rate at which materials enter or leave cells relies on...
SA
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The rate at which substances are used and produced relies on...
Volume
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Give an advantage of multicellular organisms?
Groups of cells can have different functions so more efficient due to division of labour (differentiation)
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Describe emergent properties
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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Give an example of emergent properties
The combination of a tiger's differentiated cells for different functions causes extra properties like the ability to hunt and kill
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What is a genome?
An organism's entire set of genes
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What happens to the genome of differentiating cells?
Only certain genes are used so the cell can follow its development pathway
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What does it mean when a cell is committed?
It cannot change its development pathway to a different one once it has started differentiating
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Why do big cells struggle to cool down?
More chemical reactions take place so it takes longer to lose heat- longer to cool down
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