Biology - Paper 1

Paper 1 notes for the GCSE Biology Triple AQA (Separate science) course, will also be helpful to anyone studying the other exam boards too. This is £2.40 cheaper than buying all of these topics individually. Contents.. its a lot:

Cell Structure and Transport

• The world of the microscope
• Animal and Plant cells
• Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells
• Specialisation in animal cells
• Diffusion
• Osmosis
• Active Transport

Cell Division

• Cell Division
• Stem Cells
• Stem Cells dilemmas

Communicable Diseases and Preventing Disease:

Communicable Diseases

• Health and Disease
• Pathogens and Disease
• Growing bacteria in the lab
• Preventing bacterial growth
• Preventing infections
• Viral diseases
• Bacterial diseases
• Disease caused by fungal and protists
• Human defence responses
• More about plant diseases
• Plant defence systems

Preventing and treating disease

• Vaccination
• Antibiotics and painkillers
• Discovering drugs
• Developing drugs
• Making monoclonal antibodies
• Uses of monoclonal antibodies

Photosynthesis and Respiration

Photosynthesis

• Photosynthesis
• The rate of photosynthesis
• How plants use glucose
• Making the most of photosynthesis

Respiration

• Aerobic respiration
• The response to exercise
• Anaerobic respiration
• Metabolism and the liver

Organisation and the Digestive system

• Tissues and organs
• Catalysts and enzymes
• Factors that affect enzyme activity
• The Digestive system
• The Chemistry of food
• Food Tests

Organising Animals and Plants

• The blood
• Blood vessels
• The heart
• Problems with the heart
• Transpiration and Translocation

Practicals

• Microscopes
• Effect of different concentrations of salt solution on the mass of plant tissue
• Food tests
• pH on rate of reaction of amalyse
• Light intensity for photosynthesis
• Reaction time
• Plant responses
• Field investigations
• Effect on antiseptic on bacterial growth
• Temperature on rate of decay of milk

6 markers

• Menstrual cycle hormones
• Process of IVF
• Reflex actions
• Vaccinations
• Stages of testing
• Growing and investigating bacteria in the lab
• Monoclonal antibodies
• Meiosis
• How natural selection works
• Adult cell cloning
• Embryo transplant cloning

(Please note that these are ALL of the Biology 6 markers and practicals, I have not separated them into Paper 1 and Paper 2.)