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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.
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Specification Point 2.18 - Understand the process of photosynthesis and its importance to the conversion of light energy into chemical energy.
Specification Point 2.19 - Know the word equation and balanced chemical symbol equation for photosynthesis.
Specification Point 2.20 - Understand how varying carbon dioxide concentration, light intensity and temperature affect the rate of photosynthesis.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lessons are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet 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 oesophagus, 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 Lessons are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 7 - Enzymes. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
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 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 5 - Biological Molecules. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Covers the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.7 - Identify the chemical elements present in carbohydrates, proteins and lipids.
Specification Point 2.8 - Describe the structure of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids as large molecules made up from smaller basic units.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Worksheets are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet covering the following in a modern, concise format:
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 Lessons are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet covering the following in a modern, concise format:
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 Lessons are available.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations and associated PDF worksheets for Edexcel IGCSE Biology (4BI0) Chapter 1 - Living Organisms. Contains colour coded specification points with handmade vector graphics. Nine presentations and companion worksheets included:
1 - Characteristics of Living Organisms
2 - Variety of Living Organisms
3 - Organisation and Cell Structure
4 - Cell Differentiation
5 - Biological Molecules
6 - Food Tests
7 - Enzymes
8 - Enzymes and pH
9 - Movement Across Membranes
Complete set of PDF worksheets for Edexcel IGCSE Biology (4BI0) Chapter 7 - Use of Biological Resources. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions. All questions are original. Six worksheets included:
57 - Crop Production
58 - Microorganisms for Food
59 - Fish Farming
60 - Selective Breeding
61 - Genetic Modification
62 - Cloning
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.6.4.2 - Control of blood glucose concentration.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.5.2 - Respiration.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.4.5 - Species and taxonomy.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 41 - DNA, Genes and Chromosomes. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 3.14 - Understand that the genome is the entire DNA of an organism and that a gene is a section of a molecule of DNA that codes for a specific protein.
Specification Point 3.15 - Understand that the nucleus of a cell contains chromosomes on which genes are located.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Worksheets are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.7.4 - Populations in ecosystems.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.34 - Understand how the process of respiration produces ATP in living organisms.
Specification Point 2.35 - Know that ATP provides energy for cells.
Specification Point 2.36 - Describe the differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
Specification Point 2.37 - Know the word equation and the balanced chemical symbol equation for aerobic respiration in living organisms.
Specification Point 2.38 - Know the word equation for anaerobic respiration in plants and in animals.
Specification Point 2.39 - Practical: investigate the evolution of carbon dioxide and heat from respiring seeds or other suitable living organisms.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 4.1 - Understand the terms population, community, habitat and ecosystem.
Specification Point 4.2 - Practical: investigate the population size of an organism in two different areas using quadrats.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 5.12 - Understand how restriction enzymes are used to cut DNA at specific sites and ligase enzymes are used to join pieces of DNA together.
Specification Point 5.13 - Understand how plasmids and viruses can act as vectors, which take up pieces of DNA, and then insert this recombinant DNA into other cells.
Specification Point 5.14 - Understand how large amounts of human insulin can be manufactured from genetically modified bacteria that are grown in a fermenter.
Specification Point 5.15 - Understand how genetically modified plants can be used to improve food production.
Specification Point 5.16 - Understand that the term transgenic means the transfer of genetic material from one species to a different species.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.9 - Practical: Investigate food samples for the presence of glucose, starch, protein and fat.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.22 - Understand that most phenotypic features are the result of polygenic inheritance rather than single genes.
Specification Point 3.23 - Describe patterns of monohybrid inheritance using a genetic diagram.
Specification Point 3.24 - Understand how to interpret family pedigrees.
Specification Point 3.25 - Predict probabilities of outcomes from monohybrid crosses.
Specification Point 3.26 - Understand how the sex of a person is controlled by one pair of chromosomes, XX in a female and XY in a male.
Specification Point 3.27 - Describe the determination of the sex of offspring at fertilisation, using a genetic diagram.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 4.5.2.2 - The brain.
Complete set of Chapter 5 Lectures are available.
