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11 Jun 2026
OCR (A) A-Level Biology Paper 3 Insights
It's getting closer to the final A-Level Biology Paper 3 exam.
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11 Jun 2026
AQA A-Level Biology Paper 3 Insights
It's getting closer to the final A-Level Biology Paper 3 exam.
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5 Jun 2026
OCR(A) A-Level Biology Paper 2 Insights
The OCR A-Level Biology Paper 2 Exam is on Fri 12th June. Here are my observations about which topics haven't been examined for a while and could come up. It is vital to revise and prepare for ALL...
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5 Jun 2026
AQA A-Level Biology Paper 2 Insights
The AQA A-Level Biology Paper 2 Exam is on Fri 12th June. Here are my observations about which topics haven't been examined for a while and could come up. It is vital to revise and prepare for ALL...
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21 May 2026
OCR(A) A-Level Biology Paper 1 Insights
The OCR(A) A-Level Biology Paper 1 Exam is on Thurs 4th June. Here are my observations about which topics haven't been examined for a while and could come up.
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21 May 2026
AQA A-Level Biology Paper 1 Insights
The AQA A-Level Biology Paper 1 Exam is on Thurs 4th June. Here are my observations about which topics haven't been examined for a while and could come up.
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8 May 2026
Human evolution by natural selection for more red hair, less male-pattern baldness and more…
A new study has looked at evolution of West Eurasians over the past 10 000 years and has revealed that nearly 500 genes have changed. It was a large-scale study including the analysis of 16 000...
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10 Apr 2026
Some animals have a gene that allows them to survive high altitude and this same gene also supports brain repair and could be part of the solution to treat humans with brain damage.
Mutations just happen – they are random and spontaneous. Sometimes they result in a new feature, which is an adaptation to the individual with the mutation. Animals that live in high altitude...
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19 Mar 2026
A human mutation that is an adaptation to survive with much less water in drought conditions
Turkana pastoralists in northern Kenya live in one of the driest habitats on Earth. They can survive chronic dehydration and not have kidney damage.
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9 Mar 2026
OCR Hardy-Weinberg Worksheet
This new OCR(A) A-Level Biology resource provides guidance and lots of practice questions for students to work through for the tricky topic of Hardy-Weinberg. Students will gain confidence in...
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9 Mar 2026
AQA Hardy-Weinberg Worksheet
This new AQA A-Level Biology resource provides guidance and lots of practice questions for students to work through for the tricky topic of Hardy-Weinberg. Students will gain confidence in...
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5 Mar 2026
Mutations can give us weird and wonderful phenotypes!
If you were a fearsome predator like a shark – patrolling the waters ready to find and kill prey - your advantage would come by camouflaging into the colours of the water – and being that classic...
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26 Feb 2026
One step closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes
It is though that type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune response where the body’s white blood cells recognise and destroy beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. These cells...
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19 Feb 2026
A snail can regrow its eyes in as little as a month!
Biology always offers up the weird and wonderful. This week I want to share with you how we can make use of model organisms to help learn more about human functions with a view to healing after...
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12 Feb 2026
A giant female tortoise named Fernanda has been discovered in Ecuador and is a member of a species thought to be extinct for over a century!
Maintaining biodiversity and conservation are important A-Level Biology topics. We look at how factors like human population growth and climate change can affect biodiversity. There are important...
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2 Jan 2026
Exercising for just 10 minutes changes our gene expression – and this can protect us against cancer!
It’s January and a common discussion focuses on exercise after the excesses of the celebrations now past. Another common discussion is about this now being the year of the A-Level exams for Y13.
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18 Dec 2025
Adaptation and Evolution in this changing world – How the Polar Bears are doing it!
A general theme of all A-Level Biology specs is that of adaptation. Organisms have special features that enable them to survive in a particular environment. This links nicely into evolution by...
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11 Dec 2025
Five different evolution events have given us crabs!
Evolution is an important topic on the AQA and OCR specs. It can be difficult to understand because the evidence for this theory lies very much in the distant past. Often the best way to understand...
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9 Dec 2025
tutor2u Festive Quiz 2025 | A-Level Biology
The A-Level Biology tutor2u Festive Quiz for 2025 is here!
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27 Nov 2025
The balance of selection, the environment and genetics!
There are established differences between the lifespans of males and females in many species of mammals and birds.
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