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Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Adaptations
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Types of Adaptations (Structural, behavioural & functional)
Adaptations in animals (Polar bear, artic fox, camels)
Adaptations in plants (Marram grass, cactus)
Extremophiles (Bacteria in deep sea vents and other examples)
Exam Practise
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1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Ada
3 - Food Chains & Predator Prey Cycles
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Intro to Ecology (Communities, Competition and Biotic & Abiotic Factors)
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes
Ecology Key Terms
Ecosystems, Communities and Competition
What is interdependence?
Stable communities
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
Food webs
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1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Adaptations
3 - Food Chains & Predator Prey Cycles
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
All lessons / revision notes for GCSE Biology Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution including:
1 - Meiosis & Reproduction
2 - DNA & Protein Synthesis
3 - Inheritance
4 - Genetic Disorders & Sex Determination
5 - Evolution, Variation & Speciation
6 - Selective Breeding
7 - Genetic Engineering
8 - Cloning
9 - Fossils
10 - Antibiotic Resistance
11 - Classification
Each lesson is a powerpoint with detailed notes covering all content from the topic including key practical and maths skills. Each powerpoint has practise exam questions and a summary page.
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
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Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Classification
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Carl Linneaus and the Linnean System
Concept of Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus & Species
How classification systems have changed over time
The 3 domain system (Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota) & Carl Woese
The Binomial Naming System
How to read evolutionary trees (phylogenetics)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Antibiotic Resistance
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
What are antibiotics?
Why antibiotics don’t work against viruses
How antibitoic resistance arises
MRSA
How to reduce the rate of development of antibiotic resistant strains
Exam Practise with model answers
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Fossils
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Fossil Formation (the 3 ways fossils can form)
Using fossils to explain evolution (identifying how organisms have and haven’t changed over time e.g. horses vs. sharks)
Why the fossil record is incomplete
Extinction
Factors causing extinction
* New Diseases
* New Predators
* New Competitors
* Physical Factors (Ice Age, Drought, Flooding)
* Catastrophic Events
Exam Questions
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Cloning
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Includes:
What is Cloning?
Types of cloning
* Cuttings
* Tissue Cultures
* Embryo Cloning
* Adult Cell Cloning
Risks and benefits of cloning
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Genetic Engineering
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Genetic Engineering and examples of it use in agriculture, medicine, fight diseases and treating inherited disorders
Stages of Genetic Engineering
GM Crops and concerns surrounding their use
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Selective Breeding
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
What is selective breeding
How is Selective Breeding carried out?
Selective breeding in animals (why is done? for which characteristics? examples of cattle and dogs)
Selective breeding in plants (why is done? for which characteristics? examples of wild brassica)
Problems with Selective Breeding (Inbreeding, inherited defects & new diseases)
Multiple choice questions & Exam Questions
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Evolution, Variation & Speciation
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Includes:
Variation (Genetics vs. Environment)
Evolution: Lamarck & Early Ideas
Evolution: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
Evolution: Accepting Darwin’s Ideas and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Contribution
Speciation
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Genetic Disorders & Sex Determination
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
X & Y chromsomes and sex determination
Sex determination using punnet sqaures
Inherited Disorders
* Polydactly
* Cystic Fibrosis
How to intepret family trees / pedigrees
Screening for genetic disoders
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Inheritance
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Includes:
Chromosomes, genes and alleles
Inheritance key words
Genetic crosses and punnet squares
The work of Gregor Mendel & the history of Genetics
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on DNA & Protein Synthesis
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Key Words
Function & Structure of DNA (including nucleotide structure)
The Human Genome & the importance of understanding it
Protein Synthesis
* Concept of a gene coding for a protein
* Main stages of Protein Synthesis
Gene Expression (the role of non-coding DNA)
Tyeps of mutations
All revision notes for GCSE Biology Unit 3 - Infection & Response
1 - Communicable Diseases
2 - The Immune System
3 - Vaccines
4 - Antibiotics & Drugs
5 - Monoclonal Antibodies
6 - Plant Disease & Defence
Powerpoint have detailed notes covering all content from the topic including key practical and maths skills. Each powerpoint has practise exam questions and a summary page
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
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Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Meiosis & Reproduction
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Comparrison of sexual & asexual reproduction
Basics on chromosomes, gametes, diploid vs. haploid etc
An explanation of types of gametes (animals & plants) and fertilization
The process of meisois
Meiosis vs. Mitosis
The advantages of both sexual & asexual reproduction
Examples of organisms that can reproduce both sexually & asexually
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Plant Hormones
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
The role of auxin in phototropisms & gravitropisms
The role of gibberlines and ethene
The uses of plant hormones
* Auxin - killing weeds, growing from cuttings, promoting growth in cultures
* Gibberellin - controlling dormancy, promoting flowering, increasing fruitsize
* Ethene - control ripening of fruit during storage and transport
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Contraception & Treating Infertility
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Hormonal contraception
* Oral Contraceptives
* Injection, implant or skin patch
* Intrauterine devices
Non-hormonal contraception
* Barrier methods
* Intrauterine devices
* Spermicidal agents
* Abstinence
* Surgical methods of sterilisation
Infertility
Treating Infertility
* Fertility Drug
* In-vitro Fertilisation
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Menstrual Cycle
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Human reproduction & secondary sex characteristics
The role of testosterone in sperm production
Female reproduction and the menstrual cycle
The role of FSH, LH, oestrogen and progesterone in the control of the menstrual cycle
Exam questions with answers
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Kidneys (Maintaining Water & Nitrogen Balance in the Body)
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Why is balancing water concentration important?
Waste products and how the body deals with them (e.g. water, CO2, ions & urea)
The breakdown of excess amino acids to Urea in the liver
The structure of the kidney and how it produces urine (flitration and selective reabsorption) with annotated diagrams
How ADH controls the amount of water reabsorbed by the kidneys & negative feedback loops
Kidney failure
Kidney Dialysis
Kidney Transplant
Practise Questions
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Control of Blood Glucose Levels
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
How glucose enters the body
The role of Insulin in lowering blood glucose levels
The role of Glucagon in raising blood glucose levels (Higher Tier)
The concept of negative feedback
Diabetes
* Type I
* Type II