Syllabus: Biology

B1
Keeping healthy
Diet and exercise
Weight problems
Inheritance,exercise and health
Pathogens and disease
Defence mechanisms
Using drugs to treat disease grooving and investigating bacteria
Changing pathogens
Immunity
How do we deal with disease
Coordination and control
Responding to change
Reflex actions
Hormones and the menstrual cycle
The artificial control of fertilitly
Controlling conditions
Hormones and the control of plant growth
Using hormones
Medicine and drugs
Developing new medicines
How effective are medicines
Drugs
Legal and illegal drugs
Does cannabis lead to hard drugs
Drugs in sport
Adaptation for survival
Adapt and survive
Adaptations in animals
Adaptation in plants
Competition in plants
Competition in animals
How do you survive
Measuring environmental change
The imact of change
Energy in biomass
Pyramids of biomass
Energy transfers
Decay processes
The carbon cycle
Recycling organic waste
Variation,reproduction and new technology
Inheritance
Types of reproduction
Genetic and environmental differences
Clining
Adult cell cloning
Genetic engeneering
Making choices about technology
Evolution

 Theories of evolution
Accepting darwins ideas
Natural selection
Classification and evolution
B2:
Cells,tissues and organs
Animaland plant cells
Bacteria and yeast
Specialised cells diffusion
Tissues and organs
Organ system
Organisms in the environment
Photosynthesis
Limiting factors
How plants use glucose
Making the most of photosynthesis
Organisms in their environment
Measuring the distribution organisms
How valid is the data
Enzymes
Proteins,catalys and enzymes
Factors affecting enzyme action
Enzymes in digestion
Speeding up digestion
Making use of enzymes
High tech enzymes
Energy from respiration

 Aerobic respiration
The affect of exercise on the body
Anaerobic respiration
Simple inheritance in animals and plants
Cell dividion and growth
Cell division in sexual reproduction
Stem cells
From mendel to dna
Inheritance to dna
Inherited comditions in humans
Stem cells and embryos
Old and new species
The origins of life on earth
Exploring the fossil evidence
More about extinction
Isolation and the evolution of new species
B3:
Exchange of materials
Osmosis
Active transport
Yhe sports drink dialemma
Exchanging materials the lungs
Ventilating the lungs
Artificial breathing aids
Exchange in the gut
Exchange in plants
Transpiration

Transporting materials
The circulatory system and the heart
Keeping the blod flowing
Transport of the blood
Artificial or real
Transport system in plants
Keeping internal conditions constant
Contolling internal conditions
The human kidney
Dialysis
Kidney transplants
Controlling body temp
Treatment and temperature issues
Contolling blood glucose
Treating diabeates
How humans can affect the environment
The effects of population explosion
Land and water pollution
Air pollution
Deforestation and peat distruction
Global warming
Biofuels
Biogasmaking food production efficient
Sustainable food production
Environmental issues