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Revision Notes
Paper 1 Video Tutorials
Cell Biology
- Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes
- Sizes of cells
- Order of magnitude
- Animal cells
- Plant cells
- Animal cell specialisation
- Plant cell specialisation
- Required practical 1: Microscopes
- Microscopy
- Bacterial division
- Required practical 2: Culturing
- Cell divison by mitosis
- Stem cells
- Diffusion
- Surface area to volume ratio
- Osmosis
- Required practical 3: Effects of osmosis on plant tissue
- Active transport
Organisation
- The digestive system
- Digestive enzymes
- Effect of temperature and pH on enzymes
- Required practical 4: Food tests
- Required practical 5: Effect of pH on amylase
- Absorption in the intestine
- The heart and circulation
- Arteries, veins and capillaries
- The blood
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Gas exchange in the lungs
- Cancer
- Correlating risk factors
- Lifestyle and disease
- Plant tissues
- Transpiration
Infectious Diseases
- Communicable and non-communicable disease
- Pathogens
- Measles and HIV
- Salmonella and gonorrhoea
- Malaria
- Non-specific defense systems
- The immune system
- Plant diseases
- Vaccination
- Antibiotics
- Testing medicines
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Uses of monoclonal antibodies
- Plant diseases 2
- Plant defence responses
Bioenergetics
- Photosynthesis
- Uses of glucose from photosynthesis
- Required practical 6: Photosynthesis
- Limiting factors
- Respiration
- Exercise
- Metabolism
Required Practicals
Paper 2 Video Tutorials
Inheritance
- Sexual and asexual reproduction
- Meiosis and fertilisation
- Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction
- DNA and the genome
- DNA structure
- Protein synthesis
- Mutations
- Alleles
- Cystic fibrosis
- Polydactyly
- Family trees
- Inheritance of sex
Variation and evolution
- Variation
- Evolution by natural selection
- Selective breeding
- Genetic engineering
- Cloning plants
- Cloning animals
- Darwin and natural selection
- Speciation
- Mendel and genetics
- Evidence for evolution - fossils
- Resistant bacteria
- Classification
Homeostasis
- Homeostasis
- The nervous system
- Required practical 7: Reaction time
- The brain
- The eye
- How the eye focuses
- Thermoregulation
- The endocrine system
- Control of blood glucose concentration
- The kidneys
- Maintaining the body's water balance
- The menstrual cycle
- Contraception
- Hormones to treat infertility
- Negative feedback
- Plant hormones
- Required practical 8: Plant responses
- Uses of plant hormones
Ecology
- Competition and interdepenence
- Biotic and abiotic factors
- Adapatations
- Food chains and predator-prey cycles
- Sampling organisms
- Required practical 9: Sampling organisms
- Mean, median and mode
- The carbon cycle
- The water cycle
- Decomposition
- Required practical 10: decay
- Environmental change
- Biodiversity
- Waste management
- Land use
- Global warming
- Maintaining biodiversity
- Trophic levels
- Pyramids of biomass
- Food security
- Modern farming methods
- Sustainable fisheries
- Role of biotechnology