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Weblinks and videos for use with 10676 – Stretch and Challenge Articles for A Level Year 2 AQA Biology (Sections 5-8)

Green planet

• Why the Amazon doesn’t really produce 20% of the world’s oxygen

Life without oxygen

• What Are Free Radicals?
• Health Check: the untrue story of antioxidants vs free radicals

Beneath the surface

• How a parasitic fungus turns ants into 'zombies'

Staying in touch

• Body’s 'Natural Opioids' Affect Brain Cells Much Differently than Morphine
• Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine
• Placebos trigger an opioid hit in the brain

Dealing with sugar

• The healthy diabetic cavefish conundrum

Becoming human

• Human Evolution Timeline Interactive
• Human Family Tree
• DNA reveals first look at enigmatic human relative

Newts, bats and badgers

• Lynx and wolf may soon be roaming Britain's wild places again. Is it a good idea?
• Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem in Yellowstone
• UK National Ecosystem Assessment
• Ecosystems services video

The rhythm of life

• Chronotherapy: The science of timing drugs to our Body Clock

Waste management

• Understanding bears could help us survive heart attacks, researchers say
• Biochemical tricks of the hibernating bear
• The brown bear as a translational model for sedentary lifestyle‐related diseases
• Turtles Urinate Via Their Mouths—A First

The mind–body connection

• Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones