A brief exercise using coral reef photographs and a fish identification chart to calculate a Simpsons Index of Biodiversity. 

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How to improve your answers to questions about practicals in A-level Biology exam questions.

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Neurones and Action Potentials give an opportunity for examiners to get you to explain a graph (in terms of the flow of Sodium and Potassium ions through voltage gated channel) and to link that explanation to first year concepts of facilitated diffusion and active transport.

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A level Biology Questions by topic - Kidney Questions with markschemes, useful for OCR, AQA, Eduqas

Here are lots of good questions on the kidney. I expect the kidney to appear frequently in the new style papers as they are very synoptic, give opportunities to require calculation and get students to analyse and explain data.

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Photosynthesis, Enzymes, Pigments, Leaf Buoyancy and more experimental design.

Think about how starch is made and what it is made from ......

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A level Biology Questions by Topic with Markschemes - Aerobic respiration and Anaerobic Respiration

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There is plenty of excellent guidance on how to plot graphs and draw tables in the OCR practical booklet  ..... pdf

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Surprisingly popular Photosynthesis revision

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Precision, control variables, independent variables ? Confusing for many students, however, particularly important now that this year practical skills are assessed in the exam paper. 

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One from the OCR Unifying concepts paper, combines respiration and photosynthesis.

(a) think photolysis and Oxygen accepting electrons ...

(b) is about phosphorylation and diffusion gradients

(c) is about the nature of passive transport and using proteins

(d) is about endosymbionts and prokaryotes

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Prompting some festive recapping ? - Looking back at first year A-level Biology topics

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