Biology SL study guide:
Mathematical Requirements and Statistics
- Size units in Biology
- Relative sizes
- Scale bars
- Calculating magnification
- Averages
- Variables
- Standard deviation
- Graphs
- Error bars
- Hypotheses and significance testing
- Statistics – chi-squared test
- Nomograms
Molecular Biology Part 1
- Molecules
- Carbon
- Water
- Carbohydrates
- Lipids
- Condensation and hydrolysis
- Body mass index (BMI)
- Molecular visualisation software
Molecular Biology Part 2
- Amino acids
- Proteins
- Nucleic acids
- Transcription
- mRNA codon table
- Translation
- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- DNA profiling
Cell Biology
- Cell theory
- Surface area to volume ratio
- Functions of life
- Cell differentiation
- Emergent properties
- Stem cells
- Electron microscopes
- Prokaryotic cells
- Eukaryotic cells
- Plant cells
- Comparing prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
- Comparing plant and animal cells
- Membranes
- Transmembrane transport
- The origin of cells
- Cell division
- Mitosis
- Cell division and cancer
- The correlation between smoking and the incidence of cancer
- Meiosis
- Genetic variety
- Non-disjunction
- Age and non-disjunction
- Karyotyping
Cell Metabolism
- Metabolism
- Enzymes
- Photosynthesis
- Factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis and Limiting factors
- Respiration
Human Physiology
- The human gut
- Gas exchange
- The blood system
- Defence against infectious disease
- The nervous system
- The endocrine system
- Reproduction
Ecology
- Species, communities and ecosystems
- Energy flow
- Ecosystems
- Carbon cycling
- Climate change
- Carbon fluxes
Genetics
- Chromosomes
- Human genome project
- Sickle cell anaemia – a base substitution mutation
- Comparing chromosome and gene numbers of different species
- Cairn’s technique for measuring DNA molecules
- Radiation and gene mutation
- Gene modification and Biotechnology
- Theoretical Genetics
- Genetics problems
Evolution and Biodiversity
- Evolution
- Classification of biodiversity
- Clades, cladistics and cladograms
Biology HL study guide:
Mathematical Requirements
- Size units in Biology
- Relative sizes
- Scale bars
- Calculating magnification
- Averages
- Variables
- Standard deviation
- Graphs
- Error bars
- Hypotheses and significance testing
- Statistics – chi-squared test
- Nomograms
Molecular Biology Part 1
- Molecules
- Carbon
- Water
- Carbohydrates
- Lipids
- Condensation and hydrolysis
- Body mass index (BMI)
- Molecular visulisation software
Molecular Biology Part 2
- Amino acids
- Proteins
- Nucleic acids
- Transcription
- Translation and prokaryotes
- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- DNA profiling
- Molecular visualisation of a nucleosome
Cell Biology
- Cell theory
- Surface area to volume ratio
- Functions of life
- Cell differentiation
- Emergent properties
- Stem cells
- Electron microscopes
- Prokaryotic cells
- Eukaryotic cells
- Plant cells
- Comparing prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
- Comparing plant and animal cells
- Membranes
- Transmembrane transport
- The origin of cells
- Cell division
- Mitosis
- Cell division and cancer
- The correlation between smoking and the incidence of cancer
- Meiosis
- Genetic variety
- Non-disjunction
- Age and non-disjunction
- Karyotyping
Cell Metabolism
- Metabolism
- Enzymes
- Oxidation and reduction
- Photosynthesis
- Respiration
- Comparing chemiosmosis in photosynthesis and respiration
- Summary and energy balance
Animal Physiology
- The human gut
- Gas exchange
- The blood system
- Defence against infectious disease
- The nervous system
- The endocrine system
- Osmoregulation and excretion
- Movement
- Reproduction
Plant Biology
- Transport in plants
- Water conservation
- Phloem transport – translocation
- Micropropagation
- Flowering plants
