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# Homeostasis & Response
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Homeostasis & The Nervous System

Think of homeostasis as your body's personal thermostat - it's constantly adjusting your internal conditions to keep everything working perfectly. Your body needs to regulate three crucial things: blood glucose levels, internal temperature, and water levels.

Your nervous system is split into two main parts. The CNS (central nervous system) includes your brain and spinal cord - basically your body's command centre. The peripheral nervous system contains all the other nerves that carry messages around your body.

When you touch something hot, a reflex arc kicks in faster than you can think. A receptor detects the heat, sensory neurons carry the signal to your spinal cord, relay neurons process it, and motor neurons tell your muscles to pull away. At each connection point called a synapse, chemical messengers called neurotransmitters help the electrical signal jump between neurons.

Quick Tip: Remember that reflexes bypass your brain completely - that's why they're so fast!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Temperature Control & The Endocrine System

Thermoregulation is your body's clever way of maintaining the perfect internal temperature. Your brain constantly monitors your blood temperature and responds accordingly. When you're too hot, you sweat (the evaporating water cools you down) and your blood vessels dilate near your skin. When you're cold, you shiver to generate heat and your blood vessels constrict to keep warmth in.

The endocrine system works alongside your nervous system but uses hormones instead of electrical signals. It's slower but longer-lasting. Your pituitary gland acts as the master controller, sending signals to other glands around your body.

Key glands include your thyroid (controls growth and metabolism), adrenal glands (release adrenaline), pancreas (controls blood sugar with insulin), and reproductive organs. These glands release hormones that travel through your bloodstream to their target organs.

Remember: Nervous system = fast but short-term; Endocrine system = slower but long-lasting effects!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Blood Sugar Control & Diabetes

Your body needs to keep blood glucose levels just right - not too high, not too low. When blood sugar rises after eating, your pancreas releases insulin, which tells your cells to absorb glucose for energy. Any excess gets converted to glycogen and stored in your liver.

When blood sugar drops, your pancreas releases glucagon, which tells your liver to convert stored glycogen back into glucose. This is a perfect example of negative feedback - your body automatically corrects any changes.

Type 1 diabetes usually develops early in life when the pancreas can't produce enough insulin, requiring daily injections. Type 2 diabetes develops later when cells become resistant to insulin - they just stop responding to it properly. Obesity significantly increases your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Exam Tip: Learn the insulin/glucagon cycle - it's a classic negative feedback example that often appears in tests!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Water Balance & Contraception

Your kidneys are brilliant filters that control water and waste levels in your body. They remove excess water from your blood to make urine, which also contains urea - a toxic waste product from breaking down proteins. Your kidneys cleverly reabsorb useful substances like glucose and minerals.

Water balance is crucial for your cells. Too little water causes cells to shrivel (flaccid), whilst too much water can make them burst (turgid) as water moves in by osmosis.

Contraception prevents pregnancy through various methods. Hormonal methods like FSH-inhibiting pills stop eggs from maturing, whilst progesterone injections prevent egg release. Barrier methods like condoms physically block sperm. The contraceptive pill is highly effective but needs daily use and can have side effects like increased blood clot risk.

Key Point: Only condoms protect against both pregnancy AND sexually transmitted infections!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

The Menstrual Cycle

The menstrual cycle is a monthly process controlled by four key hormones working together. FSH from the pituitary gland causes eggs to mature and triggers oestrogen production from the ovaries.

Oestrogen thickens the uterus lining and blocks FSH (preventing more eggs from maturing). It also triggers LH release, which causes ovulation - the egg's release around day 14. Progesterone then maintains the uterus lining, preparing for a potential pregnancy.

The cycle follows a predictable pattern: Days 1-7 involve the breakdown of the uterus lining (your period), the lining rebuilds until day 14 when ovulation occurs, and if no fertilisation happens, progesterone levels drop around day 21, starting a new cycle.

Memory Aid: Think "F.O.L.P" - FSH starts it, Oestrogen builds it up, LH releases the egg, Progesterone maintains it!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Fertility Treatments

Infertility affects many couples for various reasons including hormonal imbalances, blocked fallopian tubes, or cancer treatments. Same-sex couples also need fertility assistance to have biological children.

Fertility treatments include hormone injections (FSH and LH) to stimulate egg production and IVF invitrofertilisationin-vitro fertilisation. IVF involves fertilising eggs outside the body, then implanting healthy embryos into the uterus. Though effective, it's emotionally and financially demanding.

Embryo screening during IVF allows detection of genetic disorders, but raises ethical questions. Whilst it prevents suffering from inherited diseases, it's expensive and some argue it increases prejudice against disabilities. The decision to screen embryos remains deeply personal for couples.

Think About It: Fertility treatments give hope to many families, but the ethical considerations around embryo selection continue to spark important debates.

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Reproduction & Meiosis

Sexual reproduction involves male and female gametes (sperm and eggs in animals, pollen and eggs in plants) combining to create offspring with genetic variation. Each gamete contains 23 chromosomes, creating a 46-chromosome baby.

Asexual reproduction needs only one parent and produces identical offspring through mitosis (in complex organisms) or binary fission (in bacteria). There's no genetic variation, but it's much faster than sexual reproduction.

Meiosis creates gametes with half the normal genetic material (haploid cells from diploid parent cells). During meiosis, DNA replicates, chromosomes line up and separate, then the cells divide twice, creating four genetically unique gametes from one parent cell.

Key Difference: Mitosis creates identical cells for growth; meiosis creates unique gametes for reproduction!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Genetics & Inheritance

A gene is a small section of DNA that codes for specific characteristics, whilst your genome is your complete set of genetic material. Scientists use genome analysis to identify genes linked to diseases.

Your genotype refers to the genetic code (letters like BB or Bb), whilst your phenotype is the actual characteristic you can see (like brown eyes). Alleles are different versions of the same gene - you inherit one from each parent.

Dominant alleles (shown with capital letters) always show their characteristic when present. Recessive alleles (lowercase letters) only appear when you have two copies. Polydactyly extrafingers/toesextra fingers/toes is caused by a dominant allele, whilst cystic fibrosis results from a recessive allele.

Quick Check: If you're heterozygous (Bb), the dominant characteristic will show in your phenotype!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Variation & Mutations

Variation comes from both genetic and environmental factors. Two identical plants will grow differently if one's by a window and the other's in darkness - genes set the potential, but environment affects the outcome.

Mutations are random DNA changes that occur continuously and can be inherited. Most genetic variants have little effect on an organism, but occasionally they cause significant changes like cystic fibrosis.

Some characteristics like eye colour are controlled by multiple genes, so a mutation in one gene might cause only subtle changes. Environmental factors like diet, exercise, and lifestyle also significantly influence how your genes are expressed.

Remember: Your height potential comes from your genes, but whether you reach it depends on nutrition, sleep, and health during growth!

# Homeostasis & Response
homeostasis-organism ability to regulate 1
control its internal conditions so cruciac
reactions can happen at opt r

Evolution & Natural Selection

Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how species evolve over time. All living things show variation, those best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce, passing beneficial genes to the next generation. Evidence includes fossils and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Evolution can lead to new species when natural selection changes organisms so dramatically that they can't interbreed with their ancestors. However, species can also face extinction through habitat destruction, predators, disease, or catastrophic events like volcanic eruptions.

Antibiotic resistance perfectly demonstrates natural selection in action. When doctors prescribe antibiotics, most bacteria die, but resistant ones survive and multiply. This creates "superbugs" like MRSA that resist multiple antibiotics, making infections harder to treat.

Important: Always complete your full course of antibiotics - stopping early allows resistant bacteria to survive and multiply!



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Your body is like a brilliant control system that keeps everything running smoothly without you even thinking about it. From controlling your temperature when it's hot outside to managing your blood sugar after eating a chocolate bar, homeostasis ensures all... Show more

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Homeostasis & The Nervous System

Think of homeostasis as your body's personal thermostat - it's constantly adjusting your internal conditions to keep everything working perfectly. Your body needs to regulate three crucial things: blood glucose levels, internal temperature, and water levels.

Your nervous system is split into two main parts. The CNS (central nervous system) includes your brain and spinal cord - basically your body's command centre. The peripheral nervous system contains all the other nerves that carry messages around your body.

When you touch something hot, a reflex arc kicks in faster than you can think. A receptor detects the heat, sensory neurons carry the signal to your spinal cord, relay neurons process it, and motor neurons tell your muscles to pull away. At each connection point called a synapse, chemical messengers called neurotransmitters help the electrical signal jump between neurons.

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Temperature Control & The Endocrine System

Thermoregulation is your body's clever way of maintaining the perfect internal temperature. Your brain constantly monitors your blood temperature and responds accordingly. When you're too hot, you sweat (the evaporating water cools you down) and your blood vessels dilate near your skin. When you're cold, you shiver to generate heat and your blood vessels constrict to keep warmth in.

The endocrine system works alongside your nervous system but uses hormones instead of electrical signals. It's slower but longer-lasting. Your pituitary gland acts as the master controller, sending signals to other glands around your body.

Key glands include your thyroid (controls growth and metabolism), adrenal glands (release adrenaline), pancreas (controls blood sugar with insulin), and reproductive organs. These glands release hormones that travel through your bloodstream to their target organs.

Remember: Nervous system = fast but short-term; Endocrine system = slower but long-lasting effects!

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Blood Sugar Control & Diabetes

Your body needs to keep blood glucose levels just right - not too high, not too low. When blood sugar rises after eating, your pancreas releases insulin, which tells your cells to absorb glucose for energy. Any excess gets converted to glycogen and stored in your liver.

When blood sugar drops, your pancreas releases glucagon, which tells your liver to convert stored glycogen back into glucose. This is a perfect example of negative feedback - your body automatically corrects any changes.

Type 1 diabetes usually develops early in life when the pancreas can't produce enough insulin, requiring daily injections. Type 2 diabetes develops later when cells become resistant to insulin - they just stop responding to it properly. Obesity significantly increases your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Exam Tip: Learn the insulin/glucagon cycle - it's a classic negative feedback example that often appears in tests!

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Water Balance & Contraception

Your kidneys are brilliant filters that control water and waste levels in your body. They remove excess water from your blood to make urine, which also contains urea - a toxic waste product from breaking down proteins. Your kidneys cleverly reabsorb useful substances like glucose and minerals.

Water balance is crucial for your cells. Too little water causes cells to shrivel (flaccid), whilst too much water can make them burst (turgid) as water moves in by osmosis.

Contraception prevents pregnancy through various methods. Hormonal methods like FSH-inhibiting pills stop eggs from maturing, whilst progesterone injections prevent egg release. Barrier methods like condoms physically block sperm. The contraceptive pill is highly effective but needs daily use and can have side effects like increased blood clot risk.

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The Menstrual Cycle

The menstrual cycle is a monthly process controlled by four key hormones working together. FSH from the pituitary gland causes eggs to mature and triggers oestrogen production from the ovaries.

Oestrogen thickens the uterus lining and blocks FSH (preventing more eggs from maturing). It also triggers LH release, which causes ovulation - the egg's release around day 14. Progesterone then maintains the uterus lining, preparing for a potential pregnancy.

The cycle follows a predictable pattern: Days 1-7 involve the breakdown of the uterus lining (your period), the lining rebuilds until day 14 when ovulation occurs, and if no fertilisation happens, progesterone levels drop around day 21, starting a new cycle.

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Fertility Treatments

Infertility affects many couples for various reasons including hormonal imbalances, blocked fallopian tubes, or cancer treatments. Same-sex couples also need fertility assistance to have biological children.

Fertility treatments include hormone injections (FSH and LH) to stimulate egg production and IVF invitrofertilisationin-vitro fertilisation. IVF involves fertilising eggs outside the body, then implanting healthy embryos into the uterus. Though effective, it's emotionally and financially demanding.

Embryo screening during IVF allows detection of genetic disorders, but raises ethical questions. Whilst it prevents suffering from inherited diseases, it's expensive and some argue it increases prejudice against disabilities. The decision to screen embryos remains deeply personal for couples.

Think About It: Fertility treatments give hope to many families, but the ethical considerations around embryo selection continue to spark important debates.

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Reproduction & Meiosis

Sexual reproduction involves male and female gametes (sperm and eggs in animals, pollen and eggs in plants) combining to create offspring with genetic variation. Each gamete contains 23 chromosomes, creating a 46-chromosome baby.

Asexual reproduction needs only one parent and produces identical offspring through mitosis (in complex organisms) or binary fission (in bacteria). There's no genetic variation, but it's much faster than sexual reproduction.

Meiosis creates gametes with half the normal genetic material (haploid cells from diploid parent cells). During meiosis, DNA replicates, chromosomes line up and separate, then the cells divide twice, creating four genetically unique gametes from one parent cell.

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Genetics & Inheritance

A gene is a small section of DNA that codes for specific characteristics, whilst your genome is your complete set of genetic material. Scientists use genome analysis to identify genes linked to diseases.

Your genotype refers to the genetic code (letters like BB or Bb), whilst your phenotype is the actual characteristic you can see (like brown eyes). Alleles are different versions of the same gene - you inherit one from each parent.

Dominant alleles (shown with capital letters) always show their characteristic when present. Recessive alleles (lowercase letters) only appear when you have two copies. Polydactyly extrafingers/toesextra fingers/toes is caused by a dominant allele, whilst cystic fibrosis results from a recessive allele.

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Variation & Mutations

Variation comes from both genetic and environmental factors. Two identical plants will grow differently if one's by a window and the other's in darkness - genes set the potential, but environment affects the outcome.

Mutations are random DNA changes that occur continuously and can be inherited. Most genetic variants have little effect on an organism, but occasionally they cause significant changes like cystic fibrosis.

Some characteristics like eye colour are controlled by multiple genes, so a mutation in one gene might cause only subtle changes. Environmental factors like diet, exercise, and lifestyle also significantly influence how your genes are expressed.

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Evolution & Natural Selection

Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how species evolve over time. All living things show variation, those best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce, passing beneficial genes to the next generation. Evidence includes fossils and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Evolution can lead to new species when natural selection changes organisms so dramatically that they can't interbreed with their ancestors. However, species can also face extinction through habitat destruction, predators, disease, or catastrophic events like volcanic eruptions.

Antibiotic resistance perfectly demonstrates natural selection in action. When doctors prescribe antibiotics, most bacteria die, but resistant ones survive and multiply. This creates "superbugs" like MRSA that resist multiple antibiotics, making infections harder to treat.

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The app's just great! All I have to do is enter the topic in the search bar and I get the response real fast. I don't have to watch 10 YouTube videos to understand something, so I'm saving my time. Highly recommended!

Sudenaz Ocak

Android user

In school I was really bad at maths but thanks to the app, I am doing better now. I am so grateful that you made the app.

Greenlight Bonnie

Android user

very reliable app to help and grow your ideas of Maths, English and other related topics in your works. please use this app if your struggling in areas, this app is key for that. wish I'd of done a review before. and it's also free so don't worry about that.

Rohan U

Android user

I know a lot of apps use fake accounts to boost their reviews but this app deserves it all. Originally I was getting 4 in my English exams and this time I got a grade 7. I didn’t even know about this app three days until the exam and it has helped A LOT. Please actually trust me and use it as I’m sure you too will see developments.

Xander S

iOS user

THE QUIZES AND FLASHCARDS ARE SO USEFUL AND I LOVE THE SCHOOLGPT. IT ALSO IS LITREALLY LIKE CHATGPT BUT SMARTER!! HELPED ME WITH MY MASCARA PROBLEMS TOO!! AS WELL AS MY REAL SUBJECTS ! DUHHH 😍😁😲🤑💗✨🎀😮

Elisha

iOS user

This apps acc the goat. I find revision so boring but this app makes it so easy to organize it all and then you can ask the freeeee ai to test yourself so good and you can easily upload your own stuff. highly recommend as someone taking mocks now

Paul T

iOS user

The app is very easy to use and well designed. I have found everything I was looking for so far and have been able to learn a lot from the presentations! I will definitely use the app for a class assignment! And of course it also helps a lot as an inspiration.

Stefan S

iOS user

This app is really great. There are so many study notes and help [...]. My problem subject is French, for example, and the app has so many options for help. Thanks to this app, I have improved my French. I would recommend it to anyone.

Samantha Klich

Android user

Wow, I am really amazed. I just tried the app because I've seen it advertised many times and was absolutely stunned. This app is THE HELP you want for school and above all, it offers so many things, such as workouts and fact sheets, which have been VERY helpful to me personally.

Anna

iOS user

Best app on earth! no words because it’s too good

Thomas R

iOS user

Just amazing. Let's me revise 10x better, this app is a quick 10/10. I highly recommend it to anyone. I can watch and search for notes. I can save them in the subject folder. I can revise it any time when I come back. If you haven't tried this app, you're really missing out.

Basil

Android user

This app has made me feel so much more confident in my exam prep, not only through boosting my own self confidence through the features that allow you to connect with others and feel less alone, but also through the way the app itself is centred around making you feel better. It is easy to navigate, fun to use, and helpful to anyone struggling in absolutely any way.

David K

iOS user

The app's just great! All I have to do is enter the topic in the search bar and I get the response real fast. I don't have to watch 10 YouTube videos to understand something, so I'm saving my time. Highly recommended!

Sudenaz Ocak

Android user

In school I was really bad at maths but thanks to the app, I am doing better now. I am so grateful that you made the app.

Greenlight Bonnie

Android user

very reliable app to help and grow your ideas of Maths, English and other related topics in your works. please use this app if your struggling in areas, this app is key for that. wish I'd of done a review before. and it's also free so don't worry about that.

Rohan U

Android user

I know a lot of apps use fake accounts to boost their reviews but this app deserves it all. Originally I was getting 4 in my English exams and this time I got a grade 7. I didn’t even know about this app three days until the exam and it has helped A LOT. Please actually trust me and use it as I’m sure you too will see developments.

Xander S

iOS user

THE QUIZES AND FLASHCARDS ARE SO USEFUL AND I LOVE THE SCHOOLGPT. IT ALSO IS LITREALLY LIKE CHATGPT BUT SMARTER!! HELPED ME WITH MY MASCARA PROBLEMS TOO!! AS WELL AS MY REAL SUBJECTS ! DUHHH 😍😁😲🤑💗✨🎀😮

Elisha

iOS user

This apps acc the goat. I find revision so boring but this app makes it so easy to organize it all and then you can ask the freeeee ai to test yourself so good and you can easily upload your own stuff. highly recommend as someone taking mocks now

Paul T

iOS user