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Reading pop-science books is enjoyable and also supports your studies. Here are eight books that I recommend, all of which are written to be interesting and entertaining for non-specialists. They bring biology to life and will change the way you think about these topics forever.

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Immunity is a complex topic. This article overviews the basic concepts and vocabulary to give you a foundation before you start looking at the details. When you are studying, break this topic up into chunks so that you’re not overwhelmed by the amount of information.

A variable is any value that does/might change during an experiment. Variables can include things like pH, temperature, colour, or the concentration of substances. The amount of time that has passed is a variable, as are rates of reaction.

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What does it mean if a molecule is polar or charged? How does it change their behaviour? You’ll get confused in a number of topics if you can’t get this concept straight in your mind, and it’s too easy to lose exam marks by using the wrong term. Make life easier by learning this now.

How to change the language you use in A level Biology Answers, and get better grades

From an Old OCR Unifying concepts paper. ....

Don't panic, the question is not about DNA vaccines or plasmids. 

The question is about differences between protein and DNA structure,  protein synthesis, post translational modification of protein,  clonal selection, mutation of pathogens. All of which are on the specification.

Enzymes have an active site - Substrates don't.

The substrate is a complementary shape to the active site NOT the "same shape"

Enzymes reduce the activation energy for a reaction to occur

Anabolism is making, Catabolism is breaking

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The only prior  A-level knowledge you need to answer the question is that lactate is produced when ATP is made from anaerobic respiration.

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10 Basic points to remember for Biological Molecules

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