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An enzyme’s active site depends on its three-dimensional structure; denaturation can disrupt that structure. Phospholipids form a bilayer with hydrophilic heads facing aqueous environments and hydrophobic tails facing inward. Transcription makes RNA using a DNA template. Ventilation and blood flow help maintain gas-exchange gradients. In oxidative phosphorylation, a proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane drives ATP synthesis through ATP synthase.
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Flashcard 1 · Biological molecules
Why can a change in an enzyme’s tertiary structure reduce its activity?
Reveal answer and explanation
It can alter the active site so the substrate no longer binds effectively.
The explanation links molecular structure to function. Denaturation need not break the peptide bonds of the primary structure.
Flashcard 2 · Cells
How does phospholipid organisation help form a membrane barrier between aqueous environments?
Reveal answer and explanation
Hydrophilic heads face the water while hydrophobic tails form an inward-facing region.
This organisation creates a barrier to many water-soluble substances; specific transport proteins allow selected substances to cross.
Flashcard 3 · Genetic information
How does transcription differ from DNA replication in its immediate product?
Reveal answer and explanation
Transcription produces RNA; DNA replication produces DNA.
A DNA template is used in both processes, but the product and purpose differ. Transcription is not the assembly of a protein.
Flashcard 4 · Exchange systems
How do ventilation and blood flow help sustain oxygen diffusion at an alveolus?
Reveal answer and explanation
They refresh the air and blood, helping maintain an oxygen concentration gradient across the exchange surface.
A short diffusion distance also helps exchange, but it is different from maintaining the gradient.
Flashcard 5 · Biological processes
What directly drives ATP synthase during mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation?
Reveal answer and explanation
Protons moving down their electrochemical gradient through ATP synthase.
The electron transport chain helps establish the gradient. It is not oxygen passing through ATP synthase that drives ATP formation.
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Build a causal explanation, not a chain of labels
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A-Level recall should connect a molecular event to a consequence. For respiration, preserve the location of each stage and distinguish electron transfer, proton movement and ATP production. Split a large process into manageable prompts, then explain how the answers fit together. Do not reduce every mechanism to one vocabulary card.
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The AQA A-Level Biology 7402 specification includes advanced material on energy transfers, gene expression and responses as well as first-year topics. Check your own board and course year. The examples deliberately ask for mechanisms beyond GCSE definitions; they are a small selection, not a complete specification-mapped deck or a set of official marking points.
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