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Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 60 - Selective Breeding. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 5.10 - Understand how selective breeding can develop plants with desired characteristics.
Specification Point 5.11 - Understand how selective breeding can develop animals with desired characteristics.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 57 - Crop Production. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 5.1 - Describe how glasshouses and polythene tunnels can be used to increase the yield of certain crops.
Specification Point 5.2 - Understand the effects on crop yield of increased carbon dioxide and increased temperature in glasshouses.
Specification Point 5.3 - Understand how the use of fertiliser can increase crop yield.
Specification Point 5.4 - Understand the reasons for pest control and the advantages and disadvantages of using pesticides and biological control with crop plants.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 62 - Cloning. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
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 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 8 - Enzymes and pH. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.14B - Practical: Investigate how enzyme activity can be affected by changes in pH.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 11 - The Leaf. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.21 - Describe the structure of the leaf and explain how it is adapted for photosynthesis.
Specification Point 2.22 - Understand that plants require mineral ions for growth, and that magnesium ions are needed for chlorophyll and nitrate ions are needed for amino acids.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for [Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 16 - Energy in Food.]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-igcse-biology-lecture-16-energy-in-food-12425217) Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.33B - Practical: Investigate the energy content in a food sample.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 56 - Deforestation. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
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 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 29 - Coordination. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.80 - Understand how organisms are able to respond to changes in their environment.
Specification Point 2.81 - Understand that homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant internal environment, and that body water content and body temperature are both examples of homeostasis.
Specification Point 2.82 - Understand that a coordinated response requires a stimulus, a receptor and an effector.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 35 - More Hormones. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.95B - Understand the sources, roles and effects of the following hormones: ADH, FSH and LH.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 33 - Controlling Body Temperature. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.93 - Describe the role of the skin in temperature regulation, with reference to sweating, vasoconstriction and vasodilation.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 36 - Reproduction. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 3.1 - Understand the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction.
Specification Point 3.2 - Understand that fertilisation involves the fusion of a male and female gamete to produce a zygote that undergoes cell division and develops into an embryo.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 40 - Pregnancy and Puberty. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 3.11 - Describe the role of the placenta in the nutrition of the developing embryo.
Specification Point 3.12 - Understand how the developing embryo is protected by amniotic fluid.
Specification Point 3.13 - Understand the roles of oestrogen and testosterone in the development of secondary sexual characteristics.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 51 - Biotic and Abiotic Factors. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 4.5 - Understand how abiotic and biotic factors affect the population size and distribution of organism.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 53 - The Carbon Cycle. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 4.10 - Describe the stages in the carbon cycle, including respiration, photosynthesis, decomposition and combustion.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 54 - The Nitrogen Cycle. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
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 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 52 - Feeding Relationships. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 4.6 - Understand the names given to different trophic levels, including producers, primary, secondary and tertiary consumers and decomposers.
Specification Point 4.7 - Understand the concepts of food chains, food webs, pyramids of number, pyramids of biomass and pyramids of energy transfer.
Specification Point 4.8 - Understand the transfer of substances and energy along a food chain.
Specification Point 4.9 - Understand why only about 10% of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Worksheets are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.27 - Describe the structure and function of the human alimentary canal, including: the mouth esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and pancreas.
Specification Point 2.28 - Understand how food is moved through the gut by
peristalsis.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
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.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.28 - Understand how division of a diploid cell by mitosis produces two cells that contain identical sets of chromosomes.
Specification Point 3.29 - Understand that mitosis occurs during growth, repair, cloning and asexual reproduction.
Specification Point 3.30 - Understand how division of a cell by meiosis produces four cells, each with half the number of chromosomes, and that this results in the formation of genetically different haploid gametes.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
