Science / Year 9 / Science Understanding / Biological sciences

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Curriculum content descriptions

Multi-cellular organisms rely on coordinated and interdependent internal systems to respond to changes to their environment (ACSSU175)

Elaborations

describing how the requirements for life (for example oxygen, nutrients, water and removal of waste) are provided through the coordinated function of body systems such as the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous and excretory systems
explaining how body systems work together to maintain a functioning body using models, flow diagrams or simulations
identifying responses using nervous and endocrine systems
investigating the response of the body to changes as a result of the presence of micro-organisms
investigating the effects on humans of exposure to electromagnetic radiations such as X-rays and microwaves

ScOT terms

Nervous system, Plant hormones, Endocrine system, Immune system, Homeostasis

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Gus Nossal describes his most noted medical research, 2008

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This is an edited sound recording of Sir Gustav Nossal describing the medical research for which he became internationally known. He outlines his contributions to the emerging science of immunology in the 1950s-70s, and how other researchers have been able to make further discoveries based on his initial work. The recording ...

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