1. How can biomedical engineering be used to treat heart problems?
Name the components of blood and describe their functions.
Name the main features of a synovial joint and describe their functions.
What is the role of the valves in the heart and veins?
How could nanotechnology be used in the food industry?
How could you control type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
Name 3 things that humans need ecosystems for.
List the features of microorganisms that make them ideal for use in biotechnology.
What information would a fitness practitioner need to create an exercise regime?
What is a perfect closed loop system?
How could friction be reduced in joints?
How could excessive exercise cause injuries?
How do heart rate and blood pressure change during exercise? Why?
How could farmers use genetic modification?
Describe the function of insulin.
How are microorganisms used to produce insulin?
What is genetic modification?
What is bioaccumulation?
Describe how a pair of muscles moves a bone up and down.
Outline the stages in the genetic modification of a bacterial cell.
How might a physiotherapist treat a skeletal-muscular injury?
Why might BMI not be a good indicator for fitness?
Suggest why a skeleton is important.
What is sustainability?
Describe how tissue fluid is formed and what it’s function is.
Describe how microorganisms can be used in food production.
Suggest why no ecosystem is a perfect closed loop.
Suggest ways in which humans damage ecosystems.
Suggest why humans may choose not to protect an ecosystem.
How are red blood cells adapted for their function?
Explain why producing a large number of reproductive structures is not wasteful.
How could you test for a genetic disorder caused by a faulty allele?
Explain how eutrophication occurs and why it impacts the environment.
Describe how stem cell technology can be used to treat leukaemia.
Describe how the body responds to changes in temperature.
Describe how recovery period can be used to measure fitness.