Biology

Course summary

A-Level Biology will help you make sense of the living world around you. You’ll study the biology of plants and animals, human health and performance and the wider natural environment. You can progress to study a wide variety of courses at university, from agriculture to zoology. For medicine, it remains important. The First year of the course contains four modules: • Biological molecules • Cells • Organisms exchange of substances with their environment • Genetic Information, variation and relationships between organisms The second year of the course contains four further modules: • Energy transfers in and between organisms • Organisms response to change in their internal and external environments • Genetics, populations evolution and ecosystems • The control of gene expression