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Movement and messages

Connect movement, sensory signals, immune response and DNA information.

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  1. 1

    Why do different joints allow different movements?

    Can an elbow-like hinge move sideways? Compare a hinge with a ball-and-socket joint in the same direction. A blocked movement is an outcome, not a broken animation.

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  2. 2

    How can a pair of muscles move a joint both ways?

    Do muscles pull or push the bones? Compare bending with straightening. Follow the highlighted muscle and its tendon across the joint.

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  3. 3

    How does a stimulus become information?

    Does a picture travel down an eye nerve? Follow a stimulus to a receptor, then a nerve signal to processing in the brain or spinal cord.

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  4. 4

    How do different defences work together?

    Does immune memory recognize every new microbe? Compare a first encounter with a repeat of the matching feature M. The stages are a conceptual map, not an illness clock.

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  5. 5

    How does DNA pairing help preserve information?

    Which letter belongs across each DNA rung? Read across a rung: A pairs with T, and C pairs with G. The two strands run in opposite directions.

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