IGCSE Biology Edexcel

IGCSE Biology Edexcel

Dates Available

• Week 1: Monday 27 March – Friday 31 March
• Week 2: Monday 3 April – Friday 7 April
• Week 3: Monday 10 April – Friday 14 April

(Good Friday is 7 April 2023; Easter Monday is 10 April 2023)

Boards

Edexcel 4BI1

Length of Course

5 half-day sessions

Times

9am to 12.30pm and/or 1.30pm to 5pm daily

This course is designed for students studying IGCSE Biology with Edexcel. This course is not suitable for those students studying IGCSE Double/Dual Award Science or for those students studying any science courses which are not International. This course will be delivered to higher tier standard. The following topics will be covered:

• Characteristics of living organisms
• Features of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms
• Cell structure and organisation
• Movement of substances into and out of cells
• Food tests for reducing sugars, fats, starch and protein
• Enzymes, Photosynthesis, Diet and nutrition
• Alimentary canal
• Transport in plants and Transport in animals
• Disease and immunity
• Gas exchange in humans, Respiration, Gas exchange in plants
• Excretion in humans
• Co-ordination and response
• Tropic responses in plants
• Antibiotics
• Reproduction in plants and Reproduction in animals
• DNA and protein synthesis
• Meiosis and Mitosis
• Monohybrid crosses
• Codominance
• Mutation and evolution
• Selective breeding
• Ecology
• Nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle
• Biotechnology and genetic engineering
• Food supply
• Eutrophication, greenhouse gases and deforestation
• Advantages and disadvantages of using stem cells in medicine
• The importance of cell differentiation in the development of specialised cells
• GM food
• Transgenic animals and cloning
• Fish farming