Biology · KS3 to A Level
Biology Key Terms
Every word a biology department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a worked example beside almost every one. Each key stage opens on one labelled cell diagram, drawn — cells and organisation, the one structure every other band assumes a pupil can already picture — and the numbers on it appear again beside the same words in the list; a further seventeen pages carry a real drawn figure wherever a picture genuinely teaches faster than a sentence: a reflex arc, a pyramid of biomass, a Punnett square, a feedback loop, a strand of DNA. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in, the false friends that mean something else in a biology classroom — a culture is not art or music, a mutation is rarely the dramatic thing fiction makes it, resistance is not electrical — the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.
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- Referenced to the DfE's science programmes of study at Key Stage 3 (September 2013, DFE-00185-2013), the Biology, Chemistry and Physics GCSE subject content (June 2015, DFE-00352-2014), and the GCE AS and A level subject content for biology, chemistry, physics and psychology (April 2014, DFE-00356-2014); GCSE and A Level also follow Ofqual's subject-level conditions, which set the assessment objectives quoted on the words-at-work pages, including the rule that mathematical skills make up at least 10% of an A Level biology assessment; 166 of 205 terms appear by name in one of those documents and the cover says so, the rest are standard biological vocabulary defined here in plain English; no awarding body is named, and nothing a board decides for itself appears in the A Level pages
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