AQA GCSE Biology

This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams at the end of the course.  

Fundamental biological concepts and principles  

Students should have a basic understanding of the following biological principles and be able to apply them in either paper:  

• The structure and functioning of cells and how they divide by mitosis and meiosis from sections Cell biology and Meiosis. 
• That variation occurs when gametes fuse at fertilisation from section Sexual and asexual reproduction. 
• The two essential reactions for life on Earth: photosynthesis and respiration from sections Photosynthetic reaction and Aerobic and anaerobic respiration. 
• Metabolism is the sum of all the reactions happening in a cell or organism, in which molecules are made or broken down from section Metabolism. 
• All molecules are recycled between the living world and the environment to sustain life from sectionHow materials are cycled.

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