Slide Preview for AQA Biology Unit 2

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Use this slideshow to help you teach the Biology Unit 2 unit from the 2011 GCSEs. It covers: typical animal and plant cells, bacteria and yeast, specialised cells, diffusion, cells, tissues, organs and systems, how the stomach works, the digestive system, plant tissue, photosynthesis, what plants do with the glucose, limiting photosynthesis, common nutrients, taking samples from the environment, factors affecting organisms' growth, enzymes, using enzymes in digestion, bile and the liver, different uses for enzymes in industry, respiration, word equations for respiration, how the energy is used, the effect of exercise, anaerobic respiration, modern genetics and the work of Mendel, mitosis and meiosis, sexual reproduction and how it encourages variation, stem cells, how genes determine sex, monohybrid cross diagrams, determining eye colour and inheritance of diseases such as cystic fibrosis and polydactyly, family pedigree charts, fossil records, extinction of species, how geographic isolation leads to new species.