AQA GCSE 8461 Biology specification: every spec point and its video lesson
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| Spec | Statement | Lesson | YT search phrase |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1.1.1AQA 8461 | Eukaryotes and prokaryotes | Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells | ScholaFly BI01-01 |
| The size and scale of cells | ScholaFly BI01-03 | ||
| 4.1.1.2AQA 8461 | Animal and plant cells | Sub-cellular structures and what each one does | ScholaFly BI01-02 |
| The size and scale of cells | ScholaFly BI01-03 | ||
| 4.1.1.3AQA 8461 | Cell specialisation | Cell specialisation | ScholaFly BI02-03 |
| 4.1.1.4AQA 8461 | Cell differentiation | Cell differentiation and how organisms grow | ScholaFly BI02-02 |
| 4.1.1.5AQA 8461 | Microscopy | Microscopy and the magnification equation | ScholaFly BI01-04 |
| 4.1.1.6aAQA 8461 | Culturing microorganisms | Measuring a zone of inhibition: the area of a circle | ScholaFly BI10-05 |
| Culturing microorganisms and aseptic technique (triple) | ScholaFly BI10-06 | ||
| 4.1.1.6bAQA 8461 | Culturing microorganisms (Higher tier only) | Not in our plan yet | |
| 4.1.2.1AQA 8461 | Chromosomes | DNA, genes, chromosomes and the genome | ScholaFly BI17-01 |
| 4.1.2.2AQA 8461 | Mitosis and the cell cycle | Mitosis and the cell cycle | ScholaFly BI02-01 |
| 4.1.2.3AQA 8461 | Stem cells | Stem cells and meristems | ScholaFly BI02-05 |
| 4.1.3.1AQA 8461 | Diffusion | Diffusion and active transport across the cell membrane | ScholaFly BI04-01 |
| Exchange surfaces and the surface area to volume ratio | ScholaFly BI04-03 | ||
| What sets the rate of diffusion, and Fick's law | ScholaFly BI04-04 | ||
| 4.1.3.2AQA 8461 | Osmosis | Osmosis and the change in mass of plant tissue | ScholaFly BI04-02 |
| 4.1.3.3AQA 8461 | Active transport | Diffusion and active transport across the cell membrane | ScholaFly BI04-01 |
| 4.2.1AQA 8461 | Principles of organisation | Levels of organisation: cells, tissues, organs and organ systems | ScholaFly BI02-04 |
| 4.2.2.1AQA 8461 | The human digestive system | How enzymes work: the active site, specificity and denaturing | ScholaFly BI03-01 |
| What changes the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction | ScholaFly BI03-02 | ||
| The human digestive system: digestive enzymes and bile | ScholaFly BI03-03 | ||
| 4.2.2.2AQA 8461 | The heart and blood vessels | Exchange surfaces and the surface area to volume ratio | ScholaFly BI04-03 |
| The heart, the blood vessels and the double circulatory system | ScholaFly BI07-01 | ||
| 4.2.2.3AQA 8461 | Blood | The blood and its four components | ScholaFly BI07-02 |
| 4.2.2.4AQA 8461 | Coronary heart disease: a non-communicable disease | Coronary heart disease and how it is treated | ScholaFly BI07-04 |
| 4.2.2.5AQA 8461 | Health issues | Health, disease and how diseases interact | ScholaFly BI08-01 |
| Reading disease data: sampling, correlation and cause | ScholaFly BI08-03 | ||
| 4.2.2.6AQA 8461 | The effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases | Lifestyle risk factors for non-communicable disease | ScholaFly BI08-02 |
| Reading disease data: sampling, correlation and cause | ScholaFly BI08-03 | ||
| 4.2.2.7AQA 8461 | Cancer | Cancer: benign and malignant tumours | ScholaFly BI08-04 |
| 4.2.3.1AQA 8461 | Plant tissues | Plant tissues and the structure of a leaf | ScholaFly BI05-01 |
| 4.2.3.2AQA 8461 | Plant organ system | Root hair cells, xylem and phloem | ScholaFly BI05-02 |
| Transpiration, translocation and the stomata | ScholaFly BI05-03 | ||
| What changes the rate of transpiration, and measuring it | ScholaFly BI05-04 | ||
| 4.3.1.1AQA 8461 | Communicable (infectious) diseases | Pathogens and the diseases they cause | ScholaFly BI09-01 |
| How infections spread, and how the spread is stopped | ScholaFly BI09-02 | ||
| 4.3.1.2AQA 8461 | Viral diseases | Viral diseases: measles, HIV and tobacco mosaic virus | ScholaFly BI09-03 |
| 4.3.1.3AQA 8461 | Bacterial diseases | Bacterial diseases: Salmonella and gonorrhoea | ScholaFly BI09-04 |
| 4.3.1.4AQA 8461 | Fungal diseases | Fungal disease: rose black spot | ScholaFly BI09-05 |
| 4.3.1.5AQA 8461 | Protist diseases | Protist disease: malaria and the mosquito vector | ScholaFly BI09-06 |
| 4.3.1.6AQA 8461 | Human defence systems | The body's defences: barriers, white blood cells and the immune response | ScholaFly BI10-01 |
| 4.3.1.7AQA 8461 | Vaccination | Vaccination and herd immunity | ScholaFly BI10-02 |
| 4.3.1.8AQA 8461 | Antibiotics and painkillers | Antibiotics, antivirals, antiseptics and painkillers | ScholaFly BI10-03 |
| 4.3.1.9AQA 8461 | Discovery and development of drugs | Discovering and testing a new medicine | ScholaFly BI10-04 |
| 4.3.2.1AQA 8461 | Producing monoclonal antibodies | Producing monoclonal antibodies (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI10-07 |
| 4.3.2.2AQA 8461 | Uses of monoclonal antibodies | Using monoclonal antibodies (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI10-08 |
| 4.3.3.1aAQA 8461 | Detection and identification of plant diseases (Higher tier only) | Detecting and identifying plant disease (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI11-03 |
| 4.3.3.1bAQA 8461 | Detection and identification of plant diseases | Plant pathogens, pests and mineral ion deficiencies (triple) | ScholaFly BI11-01 |
| 4.3.3.2AQA 8461 | Plant defence responses | How plants defend themselves (triple) | ScholaFly BI11-02 |
| 4.4.1.1AQA 8461 | Photosynthetic reaction | Photosynthesis: the reaction, its reactants and its products | ScholaFly BI06-01 |
| 4.4.1.2aAQA 8461 | Rate of photosynthesis | What limits the rate of photosynthesis | ScholaFly BI06-02 |
| 4.4.1.2bAQA 8461 | Rate of photosynthesis (Higher tier only) | Interacting limiting factors and the inverse square law (Higher) | ScholaFly BI06-03 |
| 4.4.1.3AQA 8461 | Uses of glucose from photosynthesis | What a plant does with the glucose it makes | ScholaFly BI06-04 |
| 4.4.2.1AQA 8461 | Aerobic and anaerobic respiration | Respiration: aerobic and anaerobic | ScholaFly BI06-05 |
| 4.4.2.2aAQA 8461 | Response to exercise | The body's response to exercise | ScholaFly BI06-06 |
| 4.4.2.2bAQA 8461 | Response to exercise (Higher tier only) | Oxygen debt and lactic acid in the liver (Higher) | ScholaFly BI06-07 |
| 4.4.2.3AQA 8461 | Metabolism | Building and breaking down carbohydrates, proteins and lipids | ScholaFly BI03-04 |
| What a plant does with the glucose it makes | ScholaFly BI06-04 | ||
| 4.5.1AQA 8461 | Homeostasis | Homeostasis: holding internal conditions steady | ScholaFly BI12-01 |
| 4.5.2.1AQA 8461 | Structure and function | The nervous system, neurones, synapses and the reflex arc | ScholaFly BI12-02 |
| 4.5.2.2aAQA 8461 | The brain | The brain and what each region does (triple) | ScholaFly BI12-03 |
| 4.5.2.2bAQA 8461 | The brain (Higher tier only) | Investigating and treating the brain (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI12-04 |
| 4.5.2.3AQA 8461 | The eye | The eye, and how sight problems are corrected (triple) | ScholaFly BI12-05 |
| 4.5.2.4aAQA 8461 | Control of body temperature | Controlling body temperature (triple) | ScholaFly BI13-01 |
| 4.5.2.4bAQA 8461 | Control of body temperature (Higher tier only) | Explaining how the thermoregulation mechanisms work (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI13-02 |
| 4.5.3.1AQA 8461 | Human endocrine system | The endocrine system and its glands | ScholaFly BI14-01 |
| 4.5.3.2aAQA 8461 | Control of blood glucose concentration | Insulin and the control of blood glucose | ScholaFly BI14-02 |
| Type 1 and type 2 diabetes | ScholaFly BI14-04 | ||
| 4.5.3.2bAQA 8461 | Control of blood glucose concentration (Higher tier only) | Glucagon and the negative feedback control of blood glucose (Higher) | ScholaFly BI14-03 |
| 4.5.3.3aAQA 8461 | Maintaining water and nitrogen balance in the body | The kidney: filtration and selective reabsorption (triple) | ScholaFly BI13-03 |
| Kidney failure: dialysis and transplant (triple) | ScholaFly BI13-04 | ||
| 4.5.3.3bAQA 8461 | Maintaining water and nitrogen balance in the body (Higher tier only) | ADH, water balance and negative feedback (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI13-05 |
| 4.5.3.4aAQA 8461 | Hormones in human reproduction | Hormones in reproduction and the menstrual cycle | ScholaFly BI15-01 |
| 4.5.3.4bAQA 8461 | Hormones in human reproduction (Higher tier only) | How FSH, LH, oestrogen and progesterone interact (Higher) | ScholaFly BI15-02 |
| 4.5.3.5AQA 8461 | Contraception | Contraception | ScholaFly BI15-03 |
| 4.5.3.6AQA 8461 | The use of hormones to treat infertility | Treating infertility with hormones and IVF (Higher) | ScholaFly BI15-04 |
| 4.5.3.7AQA 8461 | Negative feedback | Adrenaline, thyroxine and negative feedback (Higher) | ScholaFly BI14-05 |
| 4.5.4.1aAQA 8461 | Control and coordination | Plant hormones: auxin, phototropism and gravitropism (triple) | ScholaFly BI16-01 |
| 4.5.4.1bAQA 8461 | Control and coordination (Higher tier only) | Gibberellins and ethene (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI16-02 |
| 4.5.4.2AQA 8461 | Use of plant hormones | Commercial uses of plant hormones (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI16-03 |
| 4.6.1.1AQA 8461 | Sexual and asexual reproduction | Sexual and asexual reproduction | ScholaFly BI18-01 |
| 4.6.1.2AQA 8461 | Meiosis | Meiosis | ScholaFly BI18-02 |
| 4.6.1.3AQA 8461 | Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction | Weighing sexual against asexual reproduction (triple) | ScholaFly BI18-04 |
| 4.6.1.4AQA 8461 | DNA and the genome | DNA, genes, chromosomes and the genome | ScholaFly BI17-01 |
| The human genome and what knowing it lets us do | ScholaFly BI19-06 | ||
| 4.6.1.5aAQA 8461 | DNA structure | DNA structure: nucleotides, complementary bases and the triplet code | ScholaFly BI17-02 |
| 4.6.1.5bAQA 8461 | DNA structure (Higher tier only) | Protein synthesis: transcription and translation (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI17-03 |
| How a genetic variant changes a protein or gene expression (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI17-04 | ||
| 4.6.1.6aAQA 8461 | Genetic inheritance | The language of inheritance: alleles, genotype and phenotype | ScholaFly BI19-01 |
| Monohybrid crosses: Punnett squares, family trees, ratios and probability | ScholaFly BI19-02 | ||
| 4.6.1.6bAQA 8461 | Genetic inheritance (Higher tier only) | Constructing a Punnett square from scratch (Higher) | ScholaFly BI19-03 |
| 4.6.1.7AQA 8461 | Inherited disorders | Inherited disorders and embryo screening | ScholaFly BI19-05 |
| 4.6.1.8AQA 8461 | Sex determination | Sex determination and the XX / XY cross | ScholaFly BI19-04 |
| 4.6.2.1AQA 8461 | Variation | Variation: genes, environment and mutation | ScholaFly BI18-03 |
| 4.6.2.2AQA 8461 | Evolution | Evolution by natural selection, and how new species form | ScholaFly BI20-01 |
| 4.6.2.3AQA 8461 | Selective breeding | Selective breeding | ScholaFly BI21-01 |
| 4.6.2.4aAQA 8461 | Genetic engineering | Genetic engineering: what it is | ScholaFly BI21-02 |
| Weighing genetic engineering and selective breeding: benefits, risks and ethics | ScholaFly BI21-04 | ||
| 4.6.2.4bAQA 8461 | Genetic engineering (Higher tier only) | The steps of genetic engineering (Higher) | ScholaFly BI21-03 |
| 4.6.2.5AQA 8461 | Cloning | Cloning: tissue culture, cuttings, embryo transplants and adult cell cloning (triple) | ScholaFly BI21-05 |
| 4.6.3.1AQA 8461 | Theory of evolution | Darwin, Wallace, and how the theory came to be accepted (triple) | ScholaFly BI20-07 |
| 4.6.3.2AQA 8461 | Speciation | Evolution by natural selection, and how new species form | ScholaFly BI20-01 |
| Darwin, Wallace, and how the theory came to be accepted (triple) | ScholaFly BI20-07 | ||
| 4.6.3.3AQA 8461 | The understanding of genetics | Mendel, and how our understanding of genetics developed (triple) | ScholaFly BI18-05 |
| 4.6.3.4AQA 8461 | Evidence for evolution | The evidence for evolution | ScholaFly BI20-03 |
| 4.6.3.5AQA 8461 | Fossils | Fossils, the incomplete record and extinction | ScholaFly BI20-04 |
| 4.6.3.6AQA 8461 | Extinction | Fossils, the incomplete record and extinction | ScholaFly BI20-04 |
| 4.6.3.7AQA 8461 | Resistant bacteria | Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and slowing resistance down | ScholaFly BI20-02 |
| 4.6.4AQA 8461 | Classification of living organisms | Classification: Linnaeus, binomial names and the three domains | ScholaFly BI20-06 |
| 4.7.1.1AQA 8461 | Communities | Levels of organisation in an ecosystem, and what makes a community stable | ScholaFly BI22-01 |
| Interdependence: competition, predation, mutualism and parasitism | ScholaFly BI22-04 | ||
| Adaptations, including extremophiles | ScholaFly BI22-05 | ||
| 4.7.1.2AQA 8461 | Abiotic factors | Abiotic factors | ScholaFly BI22-02 |
| 4.7.1.3AQA 8461 | Biotic factors | Biotic factors | ScholaFly BI22-03 |
| 4.7.1.4AQA 8461 | Adaptations | Adaptations, including extremophiles | ScholaFly BI22-05 |
| 4.7.2.1AQA 8461 | Levels of organisation | Food chains, trophic levels and predator-prey cycles | ScholaFly BI22-06 |
| Sampling a habitat: quadrats, transects and capture-recapture | ScholaFly BI23-01 | ||
| 4.7.2.2AQA 8461 | How materials are cycled | The carbon and water cycles, and the role of decomposers | ScholaFly BI23-02 |
| 4.7.2.3AQA 8461 | Decomposition | Decomposition: what changes the rate of decay, and how we use it (triple) | ScholaFly BI23-03 |
| 4.7.2.4AQA 8461 | Impact of environmental change | How environmental change shifts where species live (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly BI24-08 |
| 4.7.3.1AQA 8461 | Biodiversity | Biodiversity and why it matters | ScholaFly BI24-01 |
| 4.7.3.2AQA 8461 | Waste management | How human activity reduces biodiversity: waste, pollution and altered ecosystems | ScholaFly BI24-02 |
| 4.7.3.3AQA 8461 | Land use | Land use and the destruction of peat bogs | ScholaFly BI24-03 |
| 4.7.3.4AQA 8461 | Deforestation | Deforestation | ScholaFly BI24-04 |
| 4.7.3.5AQA 8461 | Global warming | Global warming and its biological consequences | ScholaFly BI24-05 |
| 4.7.3.6AQA 8461 | Maintaining biodiversity | Maintaining biodiversity: conservation, breeding programmes and reforestation | ScholaFly BI24-06 |
| 4.7.4.1AQA 8461 | Trophic levels | Food chains, trophic levels and predator-prey cycles | ScholaFly BI22-06 |
| 4.7.4.2AQA 8461 | Pyramids of biomass | Pyramids of biomass and the efficiency of biomass transfer (triple) | ScholaFly BI22-07 |
| 4.7.4.3AQA 8461 | Transfer of biomass | Pyramids of biomass and the efficiency of biomass transfer (triple) | ScholaFly BI22-07 |
| 4.7.5.1AQA 8461 | Factors affecting food security | Food security: what threatens it (triple) | ScholaFly BI25-01 |
| 4.7.5.2AQA 8461 | Farming techniques | Farming techniques and intensive food production (triple) | ScholaFly BI25-02 |
| 4.7.5.3AQA 8461 | Sustainable fisheries | Sustainable fisheries (triple) | ScholaFly BI25-03 |
| 4.7.5.4AQA 8461 | Role of biotechnology | Biotechnology and GM crops to feed a growing population (triple) | ScholaFly BI25-04 |
| 8.2.1AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 1 | Required practical: using a light microscope | ScholaFly BI26-01 |
| 8.2.2AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 2 | Required practical: antiseptics and antibiotics on a bacterial culture | ScholaFly BI26-07 |
| 8.2.3AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 3 | Required practical: osmosis and the mass of plant tissue | ScholaFly BI26-04 |
| 8.2.4AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 4 | Required practical: testing food for carbohydrates, lipids and proteins | ScholaFly BI26-02 |
| 8.2.5AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 5 | Required practical: how pH and temperature change enzyme activity | ScholaFly BI26-03 |
| 8.2.6AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 6 | Required practical: light intensity and the rate of photosynthesis | ScholaFly BI26-05 |
| 8.2.7AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 7 | Required practical: investigating human reaction time | ScholaFly BI26-09 |
| 8.2.8AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 8 | Required practical: light and gravity on the growth of seedlings (triple) | ScholaFly BI26-10 |
| 8.2.9AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 9 | Required practical: sampling a habitat with quadrats and transects | ScholaFly BI26-06 |
| 8.2.10AQA 8461 | Required practical activity 10 | Required practical: temperature and the rate of decay (triple) | ScholaFly BI26-11 |