GCSE Biology – Blood glucose – high and low

Last updated: 30/05/2020
WJEC GCSE Science – Double science foundation Response and regulation GCSE Biology – Blood glucose – high and low

Learning Objectives

-I can describe how blood glucose concentration is monitored
-I can explain what happens when blood glucose is too high
-I can describe how insulin controls blood glucose levels
-I can explain what happens when blood glucose is too low

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  1. Can the body change its blood glucose concentration?

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  2. What monitors and controls blood glucose concentration?

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  3. What is activated once a change is detected in glucose levels?

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  4. What are hormones?

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  5. What hormones does the pancreas produce?

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  6. Which of these hormones does the pancreas secrete?

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  7. When would insulin be secreted?

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  8. What happens when there are high blood glucose levels?

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  9. What is insulin?

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  10. What system is insulin part of?

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  11. Which gland secretes insulin?

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  12. What produces insulin?

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  13. What does insulin do?

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  14. How else can insulin be produced?

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  15. How does insulin travel around the body?

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  16. Is insulin exocrine or endocrine?

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  17. What effect does insulin have on the blood glucose level?

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  18. What happens when there are low blood glucose levels?

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  19. Why is glucose needed by human cells?

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  20. Why may blood glucose be too low?

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  21. In what way is excess glucose stored?

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  22. Where is excess glucose converted to glycogen?

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  23. What produces glucagon?

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  24. What does the liver do when there is low glucose?

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  25. Why would eating too little mean glucagon would need to be released?

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