Free support resources for Biology for You 5th Edition
GCSE Biology for You 5th Edition
Free support resources for Biology for You 5th Edition
- Specification Maps for each Examination Board
- Answers for end-of-chapter Questions
- Mark Schemes for the Further Questions sections
- Glossary
Specification Maps for each Examination Board
- AQA GCSE Biology (8461)
- Edexcel GCSE Biology (1BI0)
- OCR Gateway Biology A (J247)
- OCR Twenty First Century Science Biology B (J257)
- Eduqas (WJEC) Biology
- WJEC Biology GCSE
- CCEA GCSE Biology (1010)
- Cambridge IGCSE Biology (0610)
- Edexcel International GCSE Biology (4BI0)
- Oxford AQA International GCSE Biology (9201)
- Cambridge IGCSE Biology (0610) for exams from 2019
- Edexcel International GCSE Biology (4BI1) for exams from 2019
Support and help sheets
Chapter 1, Cells
- p8 Parts of the microscope - Help Sheet
- p8 Using the microscope - Help Sheet
- p10 Looking at animal cells - Help Sheet
- p10 Looking at plant cells - Help Sheet
- p11 Specialised cells - Help Sheet
Chapter 2, Diffusion
- p19 The rate of diffusion - Help Sheet
- p20 A model cell - Help Sheet
- p21 Osmosis in potato cells - Help Sheet
- p22 The effects of sugar solutions on potato cells - Help Sheet
Chapter 3, Enzymes
- p31 The effect of amylase on starch - Help Sheet
- p32 What effect does temperature have on the action of an enzyme? - Help Sheet
- p33 The action of protease on protein - Help Sheet
- p34 Building starch from glucose - Help Sheet
- p35 Changing sucrose into simple sugars - Help Sheet
- p36 Comparing the action of biological and non-biological washing powder - Help Sheet
- p36 To find out the effect temperature on biological washing powder - Help Sheet
Chapter 4, Food and digestion
- pp45-47 Food tests - Help Sheet
- p45 Ideas about proteins - Extension Sheet
- p48 Measuring the energy in a peanut - Help Sheet
- p49 Recommended daily amounts of nutrients - Help Sheet
- p53 Estimating vitamin C - Help Sheet
- p53 Ideas about vitamins - Extension Sheet
- p56 Digestion of three types of food molecules by enzymes - Key Diagram
- p58 What affects how quickly rennin clots milk? - Help Sheet
- p59 Human digestive system - Key Diagram
- p59 The action of lipase on milk fat - Help Sheet 1
- p59 The action of lipase on milk fat - Help Sheet 2
- p59 Your digestive system - Help Sheet
- p60 Making a model gut - Help Sheet
Chapter 5, Breathing and respiration
- p65 Measuring the heat caused by germinating seeds - Help Sheet
- p67 Composition of inhaled and exhaled air - Help Sheet - and p70 Your breathing system - Help Sheet
- p68 Respirometers - Help Sheet
- p70 Your breathing system - Key Diagram
- p71 Breathing movements - Key Diagram
- p71 Breathing in - Help Sheet and Breathing out - Help Sheet
- p72 Gas exchange at the alveolus - Help Sheet
- p72 Respiratory surfaces - Help Sheet
- p73 The depth of breathing - Extension Sheet
- p74 What effect does exercise have on breathing rate? - Help Sheet
- p74 Artificial respiration - Help Sheet
- p74 Presenting results and looking for patterns - Help Sheet
- p75 fermentation - Help Sheet
- p75 What increases the rate of respiration? - Help Sheet
- p75 What makes dough rise faster? - Help Sheet
Chapter 6, Blood and circulation
- p81 Circulation of blood through veins, arteries and capillaries - Key Diagram
- p82 Circulation of blood through heart and body - Key Diagram
- p82 A double circulation - Help Sheet
- p82 Ideas about blood circulation - Extension Sheet
- p83 What effect does exercise have on pulse rate? - Help Sheet
- p83 Blood vessels - Help Sheet
- p84 Section through the heart - Key Diagram
- p84 Your heart - Help Sheet
- pp89-92 Blood cells - Help Sheet
Chapter 7, Homeostasis
- pp98-99 Control of body temperature and control of blood sugar - Key Diagram
- p100 Control of blood sugar level - Extension Sheet
- p102 Your skin - Help Sheet
- p103 How skin reacts to overheating and overcooling - Key Diagram
- p103 How the skin reduces heat loss - Help Sheet - and How the skin loses heat - Help Sheet
- p104 The excretory system - Key Diagram
- p104 Your kidneys - Help Sheet
- p105 Structure of a nephron - Key Diagram
- p105 How a nephron filters - Key Diagram
- p105 Inside the kidney - Help Sheet - and How do nephrons work? - Help Sheet
- p106 ADH control of body water - Key Diagram
- p107 The kidney dialysis machine - Key Diagram
- p107 A kidney dialysis machine - Extension Sheet
Chapter 8, Control and coordination
- p112 Neurones - Key Diagram
- p115 A reflex arc - Key Diagram
- p115 A reflex arc - Help Sheet
- p116 Testing your reflexes - Help Sheet
- p116 Measuring your reaction time - Help Sheet
- p116 A reaction timer - Help Sheet
- p119 Inside the eye - Key Diagram
- p119 Inside the eye - Help Sheet
- p122 Chemicals in cows - Extension Sheet
- pp122-125 Hormones - Help Sheet
- p126 The menstrual cycle - Help Sheet
- p127 Control of the menstrual cycle - Key Diagram
- p127 The menstrual cycle - Extension Sheet
Chapter 9, Support and movement
- p138 The human skeleton - Key Diagram
- p138 The human skeleton - Help Sheet
- p139 Joints in the body - Help Sheet
Chapter 10, Disease
- p145 Louis Pasteur - Extension Sheet
- p145 Robert Koch - Extension Sheet
- p148 An infectious disease - Help Sheet
- p150 Spread of disease: the dirty shop - Key Diagram
- p152 Barriers to pathogens - Help Sheet
- pp153-155 Immunity and vaccines - Help Sheet
- p155 The spread of disease - Help Sheet
- p156 The discovery and development of penicillin - Extension Sheet
- p157 The effect of disinfectants and antibiotics on the growth of bacteria - Help Sheet
- p158 Growing bacteria on an agar plate - Help Sheet
Chapter 11, Drugs
- pp175-177 Drugs and solvents - Help Sheet
- pp175-177 Drugs and solvents (answers) - Help Sheet
- pp175-177 Drugs and solvents (answers) - Help Sheet (continued)
- pp178-179 The effects of alcohol on the body - Help Sheet
- p179 Alcohol in the blood - Help Sheet
Chapter 12, Feeding in plants
- p184 To find out if light is needed for photosynthesis - Help Sheet
- p200 Testing a leaf for starch - Help Sheet
- p201 Testing leaves for starch - Help Sheet
- pp201-203 Factors affecting photosynthesis - Help Sheet
- p203 Oxygen production during photosynthesis - Help Sheet
- Page 203 Collecting oxygen gas during photosynthesis - Help Sheet
- p207 Photosynthesis and carbon dioxide - Help Sheet
- p207 What effect does carbon dioxide have on the rate of photosynthesis? - Help Sheet
- p208 Section of a leaf - Key Diagram
- p208 Inside a leaf - Help Sheet
- pp208 and 210 Leaf structure - Help Sheet
- p210 Photosynthesis and respiration - Extension Sheet
- pp212 and 364 For and against the use of fertilisers - Extension Sheet
- p214 The grass house - Extension Sheet
- pp215-216 Phototropism in a shoot/Geotropism in a root - Key Diagram
Chapter 13, Plant transport
- p221 3-D diagrams of a root and a stem - Key Diagram
- p222 Absorption by roots - Help Sheet - and Up the stem - Help Sheet
- p222 A potato osmometer - Help Sheet
- p223 To show transpiration takes place - Help Sheet
- p224 Effect of temperature, humidity and wind on rate of transpiration - Key Diagram
- p224 Factors affecting transpiration - Help Sheet
- p224 What affects the rate of transpiration? - Help Sheet
- p225 Transpiration and the effect of the wind - Help Sheet
- p225 The potometer - Help Sheet
Chapter 14, Reproduction
- p236 How animals reproduce - Help Sheet
- p239 Cloning in plants - Help Sheet
- p239 Cauliflower cloning - Help Sheet
- p240 Dolly, the first cloned sheep - Help Sheet
- pp241 and 265 Designer babies - Extension Sheet
Chapter 15, Inheritance
- pp243-244 A design for life - Help Sheet
- p244 A DNA model - Key Diagram
- p244 Building a DNA strand - Help Sheet
- p246 Stages in mitosis - Key Diagram
- p247 Stages in meiosis - Key Diagram
- p248 The structure of DNA - Extension Sheet
- p248 Rosalind Franklin - Extension Sheet
- p249 Inheritance of sex - Key Diagram
- p253 Inheritance of eye colour - Key Diagram
- p253 A monohybrid cross in the fruit fly - Help Sheet
- p254 A genetic cross - Help Sheet
- pp254-255 Punnet squares - Help Sheet
- pp254-255 Black panthers and leopards - Extension Sheet
- pp258-259 Genetic diseases - Extension Sheet
- pp258-259 The inheritance of cystic fibrosis and Huntingdon's disease - Help Sheet
- p259 Polydactyly - Help Sheet
- p263 Selective breeding - Help Sheet
- pp241 and 265 Designer babies - Extension Sheet
- p267 Against GM foods - Help Sheet
- p267 For GM foods - Help Sheet
Chapter 16, Evolution
- pp272 and 275 Alfred Russel Wallace - Extension Sheet
- pp273-274 Charles Darwin - Extension Sheet
- p274 How do species change over time? - Help Sheet
- p274 Jean Baptiste Lamarck - Extension Sheet
- p277 The peppered moth - Help Sheet
- p277 The brown-lipped snail (Cepaea nemoralis) - Extension Sheet
- pp278-279 Fossils - Help Sheet
Chapter 17, Variation
- p291 A key to identify animals - Key Diagram
- p291 An arthropod key - Help Sheet
- p291 A leaf key - Help Sheet
- p291 A parasite key - Help Sheet
- p291 Making a key - Extension Sheet
- p292 The animal kingdom - Key Diagram
- p293 The plant kingdom/The other three kingdoms - Key Diagram
Chapter 18, Adaption and competition
- p315 Environmental factors in a wood - Help Sheet
- p318 The growth of a yeast population - Help Sheet
- p320 Looking at sample sizes in fieldwork - Help Sheet
- p320 Using a quadrat - Help Sheet
- p320 Investigating the population size of a weed in a playing field - Help Sheet
- p320 Sampling animal populations - Help Sheet
- p321 Identifying freshwater invertebrates - Help Sheet
- p321 Identifying invertebrates in leaf litter - Help Sheet
- p321 Invertebrates in grassland and bushes - Help Sheet
- p322 Identifying weeds on playing fields - Help Sheet
- p322 What conditions do woodlice prefer? - Help Sheet
- pp326-330 and 337-339 Charles Elton - Extension Sheet
- p330 Predator-prey Key Diagram
- p330 Predators and prey - Help Sheet
Chapter 19, Energy and nutrient transfer
- pp335-337 Food chains and food webs - Help Sheet
- pp340-341 Energy flow through a food chain - Help Sheet
- pp342-343 Energy flow through an ecosystem - Extension Sheet
- pp342-343 Energy flow through a meadow - Extension Sheet
- p348 Investigating the effect of temperature on the rate of decomposition of leaf litter - Help Sheet
- p349 The carbon cycle - Key Diagram
- p349 The carbon cycle - Help Sheet
- p350 The nitrogen cycle - Key Diagram
- p350 The nitrogen cycle - Extension Sheet
Chapter 20, Humans and the environment
- pp359 and 361 Different types of pollution - Help Sheet
- pp362-363 Rachel Carson - Extension Sheet
- p363 Caterpillar's conquest - Extension Sheet
- p364 Sewage pollution - Help Sheet
- p364 The effects of sewage pollution on river - Extension Sheet
- pp212 and 364 For and against the use of fertilisers - Extension Sheet
- p364 Poison algae - Extension Sheet
- p365 Against rainforest clearance - Extension Sheet
- p365 For clearance of the rainforest clearance -Extension Sheet
Chapter 21, Biotechnology
- p385 Sour milk - Help Sheet
- p387 An industrial fermenter - Key Diagram
- p390 Mycoprotein production - Help Sheet
Technician cards
Answers for the end-of-chapter questions
- Chapter 1, Cells
- Chapter 2, Diffusion
- Chapter 3, Enzymes
- Chapter 4, Food and Digestion
- Chapter 5, Breathing and respiration
- Chapter 6, Blood and Circulation
- Chapter 7, Homeostasis
- Chapter 8, Control and coordination
- Chapter 9, Support and movement
- Chapter 10, Disease
- Chapter 11, Drugs
- Chapter 12, Feeding in plants
- Chapter 13, Plant transport
- Chapter 14, Reproduction
- Chapter 15, Inheritance
- Chapter 16, Evolution
- Chapter 17, Variation
- Chapter 18, Adaptation and competition
- Chapter 19, Energy and nutrient transfer
- Chapter 20, Humans and the environment
- Chapter 21, Biotechnology
Zip file of all end-of-chapter answers (ZIP)
Mark Schemes for the Further Questions sections
- Biotechnology
- Cells and life processes
- Humans as organisms
- Inheritance, evolution and variation
- Living organisms and their environment
- Plants as organisms
- Practical work
Zip file of All these Mark Schemes (PDF)
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