GCSE Biology Knowledge Organisers

Every unit, and the sheet that covers it

Each sheet carries the same five sections in the same places — the vocabulary a pupil must be able to define, what they must know, what they must be able to do kept in its own list, the one diagram worth remembering, and the misconceptions that actually cost marks.

Combined science as well as separate biology. These follow the GCSE biology scheme of work, which is written for both routes: the combined content is a subset of the separate content, checked statement by statement against both the Department for Education’s documents. A combined class works from the same sheets — alongside chemistry and physics , or see all three together.

Board-neutral throughout. No sheet is written to one board’s specification. The content traces to the Department for Education’s own subject content, which AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas all have to cover however each one orders or labels it — so a department can use these whichever board they teach.

1. Cell Biology: Structure, Division and Scale

   Year 10 · unit 1 · 2 A4 sheets

2. Bioenergetics: Enzymes, Respiration and Photosynthesis

   Year 10 · unit 2 · 2 A4 sheets

3. Transport Systems: Exchange, Circulation and Plants

   Year 10 · unit 3 · 2 A4 sheets

4. Health and Disease: Pathogens, Defence and Medicines

   Year 10 · unit 4 · 2 A4 sheets

5. Coordination and Control: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems

   Year 10 · unit 5 · 2 A4 sheets

6. Homeostasis and Control in Plants

   Year 10 · unit 6 · 2 A4 sheets

7. The Genome: DNA, Genes and Gene Expression

   Year 11 · unit 1 · 2 A4 sheets

8. Inheritance, Variation and Evolution

   Year 11 · unit 2 · 2 A4 sheets

9. Ecosystems: Organisation, Cycling and Energy Transfer

   Year 11 · unit 3 · 2 A4 sheets

10. Biodiversity, Food Security and Gene Technology

    Year 11 · unit 4 · 2 A4 sheets

11. Final Preparation: Diagnosis, Technique and the Whole Course

    Year 11 · unit 5 · 2 A4 sheets