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tokyorose888

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Hi!

Im really stuck on AB biology unit 2 human health and disease and unit 3 transport becuase they are just soo big in content.!

so id just like to ask if anyone has any concise, clear revision notes that they have found/ made and can kindly post it up!

or if there are any websites specific to OCR biology...im really lost in this subject please help!

All the ones i can find are edexcel or AQA specific..

REP will be given for best contribution

thnx!

bazdaman

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If you write yours up on the net would u mind posting them in the forum. Sharing is caring

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ayesha2210

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This website:

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=category&s=00020&n=01000&i=01020.01&o=|00510|00570|00520|00530|00540|00550|00580|00130|00PRS|00560|00590|00010|00020|00030|00040|00050|00060|00070|00120|00080|00090|00100|00110|01000|02000|03000|04000|05000|06000|07000|08000|09000|10000|11000|12000|13000|14000|15000|16000|17000|18000|19000|20000|21000|22000|23000|24000|25000|26000|27000|28000|29000|30000|31000|32000|33000|34000|35000|36000|37000|38000|39000|40000|41000|42000|43000|44000|45000|46000|47000|48000|49000|50000|51000|52000|53000|54000|55000|56000|57000|58000|99000|

shootbangfire

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These only go up to lung diseases but I think they're alright. I've been working on notes like this for a few weeks now - I've got Chemistry unit 4 in it's entirety and i'm trying to do the same for all my notes. if you print these out 2 sided (try using a school computer and fiddling with the print settings) they can be really concise. If these help tell me and I'll try and put up the rest of HHD notes by the end of today. Fraid I can't do transport as I scored too highly to retake last year, I underestimated the difficulty of HHD in relation to the other Units.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ybvamy3gjm0

bazdaman

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(Original post by shootbangfire)
These only go up to lung diseases but I think they're alright. I've been working on notes like this for a few weeks now - I've got Chemistry unit 4 in it's entirety and i'm trying to do the same for all my notes. if you print these out 2 sided (try using a school computer and fiddling with the print settings) they can be really concise. If these help tell me and I'll try and put up the rest of HHD notes by the end of today. Fraid I can't do transport as I scored too highly to retake last year, I underestimated the difficulty of HHD in relation to the other Units.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ybvamy3gjm0

Do you have notes on Transport...Those are quite good human health and disease notes btw!

shootbangfire

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Nah, did you read my post? Not retaking, i got almost top marks. sorry. It's best to make your own notes for transport anyway, as it's a tough unit and some bits are harder to grasp.

tokyorose888

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(Original post by shootbangfire)
Nah, did you read my post? Not retaking, i got almost top marks. sorry. It's best to make your own notes for transport anyway, as it's a tough unit and some bits are harder to grasp.

do you know if when i retake unit 3 will i have to re do the coursework? its becuase my stupid stupid teacher gave me 18/30 which is just a C and I was aiming for an A, if i want to get an A in unit 3, that means ill have to get full marks in my transport lol :eek:

which is impossible

shootbangfire

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yes. =

juicyfruit

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Aahhhh Transport is so hard to get to grips with and remember!!!

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out of the three AS modules what would ppl say is the hardest, in my opinions it foundation, i'm retakin it this summer

bazdaman

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From past papers It seems like Human Health and Disease is the hardest. Foundation just has alot of content but it's quite easy ... however 80% In my college did fail lol ... Not me I got an A

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out of the three AS modules what would ppl say is the hardest, in my opinions it foundation, i'm retakin it this summer

i was gonna retake foundation again too....but after hearing people say that doing 3 exams in a row is hard and tiring when you get to the 3rd which is usually foundation. :9 so im retaking in january....anyone think thats a good idea? or bad one?

bazdaman

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No you would do it in order, So first you do Foundation, then Humand Health and Disease, and lastly Transport

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(Original post by bazdaman)
No you would do it in order, So first you do Foundation, then Humand Health and Disease, and lastly Transport

erm, probabaly becuase your in a different college, the one which most people take is first, which usually in the summer is either human health and disease or transport

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can someone please explain translocation to me??

also the source to sink thing, because it doesn't make sense.

bazdaman

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havn't revised that yet lol...only done the stuff bout the heart just started transpiration...gotta finishd the rest of transport and then do Human helth and then got to do economics ain touched that yet. 8 Exams in two dayz is not easy! lol

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Source to sink is the fact that translocation can go in two directions, so instead of saying it goes from roots to leaves or vice versa you say it goes from the source to the sink.
At the source you have active loading of sucrose into sieve elements, this leads to decreased water potential. Water follows the the sucrose by osmosis. At the sink, the sucrose is removed and followed by water again. The difference in hydrostatic pressure causes the sucrose to go from source to sink.
I hope ive explained that okay.. x

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ok..but i dont really understand loading of sucrose and unloading, could you please explain this.

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broot90

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The loading and unloading bit is a fair bit more complicated and i dont rlly understand it well enough to explain. The textbook notes on it are pgs 142/3.
Sorry that i can't help.. good luck

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(Original post by tokyorose888)
do you know if when i retake unit 3 will i have to re do the coursework? its becuase my stupid stupid teacher gave me 18/30 which is just a C and I was aiming for an A, if i want to get an A in unit 3, that means ill have to get full marks in my transport lol :eek: