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For ocr unit b5 includes growth charts, stages of growth, growth during puberty, what affects growth, what controls it and life expectancy. Biologists use the term producer to describe green plants that synthesize food through the process photosynthesis. Broadly, glycolysis breaks down a glucose molecule and forms 2 pyruvate molecules, with the release of two molecules of atp. Aqa biology revision science gcse and alevel revision. I take you through the concept of diffusion and then we look at three factors that affect the rate of diffusion.
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