Write your name here Surname Other names Centre Number Candidate Number Edexcel GCSE Biology Unit B2: The Components of Life Higher Tier Additional Sample Assessment Material Time: 1 hour You must have: Calculator‚ Ruler Paper Reference 5BI2H/01 Total Marks Instructions se b ink or • Uill inlack boxesball-point pen. page with your name‚ F the a the top of this • centre number andt candidate number. nswer all uestions. • Answer theqquestions in the spaces
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2. In what ways do normal red and white blood cells differ? (2 Marks) White blood cells have a nucleus‚ red blood cells do not‚ white blood cells protect while red blood cells transport‚ and red blood cells have a longer life span than white blood cells. 3. Which type of white blood cell would you expect to be most common in a normal blood smear? (2 Marks) In a normal blood smear‚ one would expect to find more neutrophil cells. 4. A differential count of white blood cells from a patient
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In the novel‚ My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult‚ a child was genetically engineered to become a donor for another child’s benefit. This novel covered a story of the genetically engineered child that was trying to fight for the right of her own body with her parents. The novel questioned human ethics and morals and the extent of medical technologies that should be allowed. At the end of the novel‚ it concluded that there was no correct answer relating to this situation. I realize that it was a hard
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How would you like to solve the world’s problems? Cure diseases? Or even prevent diseases from happening? Embryonic Stem Cells are beneficial to society . Embryonic Stem Cells can help treat many diseases . The most exciting use of the stem cells depend on their their the ability to differentiate into a wide range of functioning adults cells. This gives a replacement source of the cell to treat any serious disease. That means that technically any disease that cellular and tissue destruction it
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Colorectal tumor takes on the 2nd place for the world’s well-known cancer. Next to to the therapeutic treatment for this type of cancer‚ researchers have found another treatment which is more useful. The person who is a living proof for curing this type of malady is Chris Wark. He was analyzed and found out to have cancer type III‚ he treated it and after the surgery he denied the chemotherapy. Today he has clarified the story in his web site. Eleven years later that very day‚ Wark is still
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Recent advancements in medical technology have allowed doctors to permanently extract the most prevalent cancerous brain tumor‚ Glioblastoma Multiforme‚ and improve the lives of countless individuals and their families. By using a modified form of the poliovirus‚ doctors are now able to eradicate the cancer without compromising the health of the patient. Glioblastoma Multiforme is the most common and most aggressive cancer that starts within the brain. Glioblastomas represent 15% of all brain
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Tradition is the enemy of progress Weather it’s religious traditions preventing the study of the dead for better understanding of the living to the churches traditions stopping the progress into the realization that the Earth is not the center of the universe or to take something recent Umbilical cord debates over weather to use them for life saving stem cell research. Tradition is the common enemy among Progress into the future people want the results of science we live our lives due to science
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Handout 3.1 Pretest Write the letter corresponding to the medical term defined. __a_ 1. inflammation of the skin of the extremities a. acrodermatitis b. acrocyanosis c. dermatitis __c_ 2. pertaining to under the skin a. dermal b. percutaneous c. hypodermic __a_ 3. pertaining to upon the skin a. epidermal b. percutaneous c. subcutaneous __b_ 4. disease of the skin a. dermatology b. dermatopathy c. dermatitis __b__ 5. red skin a. xanthoderma b. erythroderma
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Have you accepted your fate…or have you done something to change it? In The Flash Fiction story Friday Roses every Friday she receives roses from her partner and is forced to say the she loves them. She goes on to talk about how she hates the roses more than she despises him. No matter if you are three or thirty years old sometimes you will face a fate that you will not like whether that is being in an abusive relationship or being diagnosed with cancer‚ you have the power to change your fate. The
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Sebold‚ Alice. The Lovely Bones. New York: Little‚ Brown‚ and company‚ 2002. Print. p. 328 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a truly different novel. It is told from the perceptive an average fourteen year old girl named Susie Salmon. The one thing that makes Susie unique is that she was raped and murdered and shares her story from Heaven. The beginning of the book is
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