: EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES : Scientific enquiry : Using and organizing apparatus and materials : Observing, measuring and recording : Handling experimental observations and data : Planning, carrying out and evaluating investigations : EXPERIMENTS 1: Characteristics and classification of living organisms 1.1: Dichotomous keys 2: Organisation and maintenance of the organism 2.1: Plant cells 2.2: Animal cells 3: Movement in and out of cells 3.1: Osmosis and water flow 3.2: Turgor in potato tissue 3.3: Osmosis and turgor 3.4: Plasmolysis 3.
5: Partial permeability (dialysis) 4: Biological molecules 4.1: Food tests 4.2: Application of the food tests 5: Enzymes 5.1: Extracting and testing an enzyme 5.2: The effect of temperature on enzyme reaction 5.3: The effect of pH on enzyme reaction 6: Plant nutrition 6.1: Is cholorophyll necessary for photosynthesis? 6.2: Is light necessary for photosynthesis? 6.
3: Is carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis? 6.4: Is oxygen produced during photosynthesis? 6.5: The effect of light intensity on the rate of photosynthesis 6.6: Gaseous exchange during photosynthesis 6.7: The importance of different mineral elements 7: Human nutrition 7.1: Energy from food 8: Transport in plants 8.1: Transport in vascular bundles 8.2: Rates of water uptake in different conditions 8.
3: To find which surface of a leaf loses more water vapour 9: Transport in animals 9.1: Physical activity and pulse rate 10: Diseases and immunity 11: Gas exchange in humans 11.1: Oxygen in exhaled air 11.2: Carbon dioxide in exhaled air 11.3: Volume of air in the lungs 12: Respiration 12.1: Using up oxygen during respiration 12.2: Releasing energy in respiration 12.3: Anaerobic respiration in yeast 13: Excretion in humans 14: Co-ordination and response 14.
1: Gravitropism in pea radicles 14.2: Phototropism in shoots 14.3: Region of response 15: Drugs 16: Reproduction 16.1: Insect pollinated flowers 16.2: The growth of pollen tubes 16.3: Germination: the need for water 16.4: Germination: the need for oxygen 16.5: Temperature and germination 17: Inheritance 18: Variation and selection 19: Organisms and their environment 20: Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering 20.
1: The effect of pectinase on fruit pulp 21: Human influences on ecosystems 22: Past exam questions 22.1: Practical past exam questions 22.2: Alternative to practical past exam questions.