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We understand the importance of education. We offer tailored private tuition designed to maximise success at GCSE, A Level and beyond. Our tutors are experienced professionals, teachers and top-tier graduates with extensive knowledge in their subjects.
On Tes we offer high quality board-specific resources. Please check back regularly as we are continually updating our stock.
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Specification Point 1.8 - Understand how to classify a substance as an element, compound or mixture.
Specification Point 1.9 - Understand that a pure substance has a fixed melting and boiling point, but that a mixture may melt or boil over a range of temperatures.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.10
Describe the following experimental techniques for the separation of mixtures:
Simple distillation.
Fractional distillation.
Filtration.
Crystallisation.
Paper chromatography.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.2 - Describe the common features shown by eukaryotic organisms: plants, animals, fungi and protoctista.
Specification Point 1.3 - Describe the common features shown by prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria.
Specification Point 1.4 - Understand the term pathogen and know that pathogens may include the following: fungi, bacteria, protoctista and viruses.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.10 - Understand the role of enzymes as biological catalysts in metabolic reactions.
Specification Point 2.11 - Understand how temperature changes can affect enzyme function, including changes to the shape of the active site.
Specification Point 2.12 - Practical: Investigate how enzyme activity can be affected by changes in temperature.
Specification Point 2.13 - Understand how enzyme function can be affected by changes in pH altering the active site.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.7 - Identify the chemical elements present in carbohydrates, proteins and lipids (fats and oils).
Specification Point 2.8 - Describe the structure of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids as large molecules made up from smaller basic units; starch and glycogen from simple sugars, proteins from amino acids and lipids from fatty acids and glycerol.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.5B - Explain the importance of cell differentiation in the development of specialised cells.
Specification Point 2.6B - Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using stem cells in medicine.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.59 - Describe the composition of the blood: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma.
Specification Point 2.60 - Understand the role of plasma in the transport of carbon dioxide, digested food, urea, hormones and heat energy.
Specification Point 2.61 - Understand how adaptations of red blood cells make them suitable for the transport of oxygen, including shape, the absence of a nucleus and the presence of haemoglobin.
Specification Point 2.62 - Understand how the immune system responds to disease using white blood cells, illustrated by phagocytes ingesting pathogens and lymphocytes releasing antibodies specific to the pathogen.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.51 - Understand why simple, unicellular organisms can rely on diffusion for movement of substances in and out of the cell.
Specification Point 2.52 - Understand the need for a transport system in multicellular organisms.
Specification Point 2.53 - Describe the role of phloem in transporting sucrose and amino acids between the leaves and other parts of the plant.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.14B - Practical: Investigate how enzyme activity can be affected by changes in pH.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.68 - Understand how the structure of arteries, veins and capillaries relate to their function.
Specification Point 2.69 - Understand the general structure of the circulation system, including the blood vessels to and from the heart and lungs, liver and kidneys.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.5 - Understand how abiotic and biotic factors affect the population size and distribution of organism.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.11B - Describe the stages in the nitrogen cycle, including the roles of nitrogen fixing bacteria, decomposers, nitrifying bacteria and denitrifying bacteria.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.10 - Describe the stages in the carbon cycle, including respiration, photosynthesis, decomposition and combustion.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.35B - Understand how a change in DNA can affect the phenotype by altering the sequence of amino acids in a protein.
Specification Point 3.36B - Understand how most genetic mutations have no effect on the phenotype, some have a small effect and rarely do they have a significant effect.
Specification Point 3.37B - Understand that the incidence of mutations can be increased by exposure to ionising radiation (for example, gamma rays, x-rays and ultraviolet rays) and some chemical mutagens (for example, chemicals in tobacco).
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 5.17B - Describe the process of micropropagation (tissue culture) in which explants are grown in vitro.
Specification Point 5.18B - Understand how micropropagation can be used to produce commercial quantities of genetically identical plants with desirable characteristics.
Specification Point 5.19B - Describe the stages in the production of cloned mammals involving the introduction of a diploid nucleus from a mature cell into an enucleated egg cell, illustrated by Dolly the sheep.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.90 - Describe the structure and functioning of a simple reflex arc illustrated by the withdrawal of a finger from a hot object.
Specification Point 2.91 - Describe the structure and function of the eye as a receptor.
Specification Point 2.92 - Understand the function of the eye in focusing on near and distant objects, and in responding to changes in light intensity.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.8 - Understand how the structure of the male and female reproductive systems are adapted for their functions.
Specification Point 3.9 - Understand the roles of oestrogen and progesterone in the menstrual cycle.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 5.5 - Understand the role of yeast in the production of food including bread.
Specification Point 5.6 - Practical: investigate the role of anaerobic respiration by yeast in different conditions.
Specification Point 5.7 - Understand the role of bacteria (Lactobacillus) in the production of yoghurt.
Specification Point 5.8 - Understand the use of an industrial fermenter and explain the need to provide suitable conditions in the fermenter, including aseptic precautions, nutrients, optimum temperature and pH, oxygenation and agitation, for the growth of microorganisms.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.18B - Understand the effects of deforestation, including leaching, soil erosion, disturbance of evapotranspiration and the carbon cycle, and the balance of atmospheric gases.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.52C - Know how to represent a metallic lattice by a 2-D diagram.
Specification Point 1.53C - Understand metallic bonding in terms of electrostatic attractions.
Specification Point 1.54C - Explain typical physical properties of metals, including electrical conductivity and malleability.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.