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GRADE 9 NOTES AQA Biology GCSE Topic 4 Bioenergetics

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These are in-depth notes for topic 4 bioenergetics in the AQA Biology GCSE. It covers everything you need to know for your GCSE exam for topic 4, highlighting the important parts of the specification to help you get those top GRADE 9s.

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Topic 4:Bioenergetics  Enable muscle contraction (movement)
Leaf adaptations: o More muscle = more energy
 Leaf is thin -> short diffusion path  Maintain a steady body temp (keeping warm)
 Leaf is broad -> big surface for light o Humans and birds need to eat for
absorption energy
 Chlorophyll -> absorb light energy Respiration:
 Xylem -> supply the water  Process of transferring energy from glucose so
 Phloem -> remove the glucose living processes can occur
 Air spaces -> diffusion of the gases  Exothermic reaction
 Guard cells -> regulate the opening & closing Aerobic Respiration:
of the stomata to reduce water loss  Complete breakdown of glucose in the
 Epidermis -> Transparent to let more light in presence of O2 to release energy
 Palisade cell layer -> absorbs more light to  Uses oxygen
increase the rate of reaction  Transfers most energy
Photosynthesis:  Mitochondria
 Water + Carbon Dioxide (+light)  Oxygen +  6O2 + C6H12O6  6H2O + 6CO2
Glucose  Oxygen + Glucose  Water + Carbon Dioxide
6H2O + 6CO2  6O2 + C6H12O6 Anaerobic Respiration:
 Process of how plants make glucose (food)  Incomplete breakdown of glucose to release
from sunlight energy
 Endothermic (takes in energy to the  Doesn’t use oxygen
surroundings to the chloroplasts)  Transfers little energy
 Energy used to break the H2O & CO2 bonds  Used as a last resort where there is not
 Rate of Photosynthesis: enough oxygen
o Increase Temperature = increased  Animals:
rate o C6H12O6  C3H6O3
 The enzymes move faster, but o Glucose  Lactic Acid
at a certain temp, they  Plants:
denature and the rate o C6H12O6  Ethanol + CO2
decreases o Glucose  Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide
o Light Intensity increases = increased o Used to make bread & alcoholic drinks
rate Response to exercise:
o Carbon Dioxide concentration  Heart rate increases
increases = increased rate  Breathing rate increases
o Increased chlorophyll = increased rate  Breath volume increases
as they convert the light energy to  Respiration occurs faster & more oxygen
food for the plant needs to be supplied to cells so more
Limiting Factors: carbon dioxide removed
 A factor that limits the rate of a reaction  Muscles begin to hurt during exercise
where there is not enough of it  The muscles are running out of oxygen for
 Environmental condition that restricts rate of aerobic respiration so they start
photosynthesis when there is less of It anaerobically respiring
 Can be seen on a graph if the curve levels  This creates lactic acid which builds up
Uses of glucose from photosynthesis: creating pain in your leg
 Respiration  Even when you stop exercising, you still
 Converted into insoluble starch for storage (in breath hard because you need more
roots, stems, leaves) oxygen to break down the lactic acid
 To produce fat or oil for storage in seeds  Oxygen debt – the amount of extra
 To produce cellulose to strengthen cell walls oxygen the body needs after exercise to
 Combined with nitrates (absorbed from the react with the accumulated lactic acid &
soil) to form amino acids which produce remove it from the cells
proteins  Results in muscles getting tired & not
Uses of energy from respiration: contracting properly
 Build bigger molecules/proteins  Blood flowing through the muscles
o E.g. joining glucose molecules transports lactic acid to the liver 
together to make glycogen for storage converted back to glucose
Metabolism:
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