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Topic 6 Check List 2025-27

Biology GCSE

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Biology GCSE

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Cambridge IGCSE Co-ordinated Sciences (Double Award) 0654 syllabus for 2025, 2026 and 2027.

Subject content

B13 Coordination and response


B13.1 Coordination and response
Core Supplement
1 State that electrical impulses travel along
neurones
2 Describe the mammalian nervous system in
terms of:
(a). the central nervous system (CNS)
consisting of the brain and spinal cord
(b). the peripheral nervous system (PNS)
consisting of the nerves outside of the
brain and spinal cord
3 Describe the role of the nervous system as
coordination and regulation of body functions
4 Identify in diagrams and images sensory,
relay and motor neurones
5 Describe a simple reflex arc in terms of:
receptor, sensory neurone, relay neurone,
motor neurone and effector

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B13 Coordination and response (continued)


B13.1 Coordination and response (continued)
Core Supplement
6 Describe a reflex action as a means of
automatically and rapidly integrating and
coordinating stimuli with the responses of
effectors (muscles and glands)
7 Describe sense organs as groups of receptor
cells responding to specific stimuli: light,
sound, touch, temperature and chemicals

B13.2 Hormones
Core Supplement
1 Describe a hormone as a chemical
substance, produced by a gland and carried
by the blood, which alters the activity of one
or more specific target organs
2 Identify in diagrams and images specific 4 State that glucagon is secreted by the
endocrine glands and state the hormones pancreas
they secrete, limited to:
(a). adrenal glands and adrenaline
(b). pancreas and insulin
(c). testes and testosterone
(d). ovaries and oestrogen
3 Describe adrenaline as the hormone secreted
in ‘fight or flight’ situations and its effects,
limited to:
(a). increased breathing rate
(b). increased heart rate
(c). increased pupil diameter

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B13 Coordination and response (continued)


B13.3 Homeostasis
Core Supplement
1 Describe homeostasis as the maintenance of
a constant internal environment
2 Explain the concept of homeostatic control
by negative feedback with reference to a set
point
3 Describe the control of blood glucose
concentration by the liver and the roles of
insulin and glucagon
4 Identify in diagrams and images of the skin:
hairs, hair erector muscles, sweat glands,
receptors, sensory neurones, blood vessels
and fatty tissue
5 Describe the maintenance of a constant
internal body temperature in mammals in
terms of:
(a). insulation, sweating, shivering, the role of
the brain
(b). vasodilation and vasoconstriction
of arterioles supplying skin surface
capillaries

B14 Drugs
B14.1 Drugs
Core Supplement
1 Describe a drug as any substance taken into
the body that modifies or affects chemical
reactions in the body
2 Describe the use of antibiotics for the
treatment of bacterial infections
3 State that some bacteria are resistant to 5 Explain how using antibiotics only when
antibiotics which reduces the effectiveness of essential can limit the development of
antibiotics resistant bacteria such as MRSA
4 State that antibiotics kill bacteria but do not
affect viruses

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