GCE Biology

Unit 5 Exercise, energy and coordination

Name: ____________________

Date: ___________________

7.4 Health, exercise and sport

A. The risk of too little exercise
1. Explain the difference between correlation and causation.

2. Explain the relationship between obesity, diabetics, heart disease and level of exercise

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(a) How healthy is your heart

2. Explain how the electrical activity recorded in an ECG is related to the beating of the heart,
and why changes in this activity lead to problems.

(a) Exercise and the joints

a) State how knee injuries are caused and how they affect the joint.

b) Explain how surgery allows a footballing career to continue when an artificial knees
cannot.

3.

Investigate the IAAF ban on the use if prosthetics limbs in competition. Describe the issues
that it raises

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(b) Performance- enhancing drugs

3. Suggest why some drugs are banned completely and others only banned during
competition.

4. a) Suggest why athletics might want to switch on a particular genes.

b) Describe the production and role of a hormone acting as DNA transcription factors to
switch on a particular gene.

5. Describe the ethical positions of an absolutist and a relativist.

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