Animal tissues, organs and organ systems exam tips

Exam tips

• The heart and blood vessels exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to use simple compound measures and rate calculations in the context of blood flow..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for The heart and blood vessels.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to explain that blood is a tissue made of plasma with cells and platelets suspended in it..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to describe the function of plasma in transporting substances..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to describe the function and adaptations of red blood cells..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to describe the function of white blood cells in defending against disease..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to describe the function of platelets in clotting..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to recognise different blood cells in diagrams or microscope images..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to explain how blood cells are adapted to their functions..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Blood exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to evaluate risks linked to the use of blood products..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Blood.

• Coronary heart disease: a non-communicable disease exam tip 1

  Use precise biological vocabulary when you explain how to explain that coronary heart disease happens when fatty material builds up in the coronary arteries..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Coronary heart disease: a non-communicable disease.