Get an A*
A-Level and IB Biology Online Course
Our award-winning A-Level and IB Biology Course + flashcards have been verified and certified by leading A-Level Biology examiners. Specific courses for Edexcel, OCR, AQA, Pearson, CIE and more exam boards.
BUY NOW1,276
reviews
What you'll get
- 200+ Video Tutorials for all parts of the specification
- Revision Notes & Exclusive examiner tips
- Past Paper Compilations by topic and specification
- 5000+ Biology Flashcards
- Exam Techniques
The A-Level course is a monthly subscription.
A quick intro...
A-Level Biology is HARD, there’s no denying it! Trying to cram all the theory, memorising all the practicals and applying it all to exam techniques – don’t make it easy.
That’s why we’ve built this course with videos, textbooks, flashcards, past papers and more.
We cover every A-Level Biology Specification
All living things are made up of three main types of biological molecules. By understanding more about these important molecules we can learn about how living organisms function at a molecular level.
The variety of life, both past and present, is extensive, but the biochemical basis of life is similar for all living things. Monomers are the smaller units from which larger molecules are made.
Buy nowMonosaccharides are the monomers from which larger carbohydrates are made. Polysaccharides are formed by the condensation of many monomer units.
Buy nowTriglycerides and phospholipids are two groups of lipid.Triglycerides are formed by the condensation of one molecule of glycerol and three molecules of fatty acid.
Buy nowAmino acids are the monomers from which proteins are made. A condensation reaction between two amino acids forms a peptide bond. A functional protein may contain one or more polypeptides.
Buy nowDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are important information-carrying molecules. In all living cells, DNA holds genetic information and RNA transfers genetic information from DNA to the ribosomes.
Buy nowA single molecule of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide derivative and is formed from a molecule of ribose, a molecule of adenine and three phosphate groups.
Buy nowWater is a major component of cells. It has several properties that are important in biology.
Buy nowInorganic ions occur in solution in the cytoplasm and body fluids of organisms, some in high concentrations and others in very low concentrations.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowAll life on Earth exists as cells. These have basic features in common and differences between cells are due to the addition of extra features.
In complex multicellular organisms, eukaryotic cells become specialised for specific functions. Specialised cells are organised into tissues, tissues into organs and organs into systems.
Buy nowThe structure of eukaryotic cells, restricted to the structure and function of intracellular organelles. These include the nucleus, ribosomes, chloroplasts, Golgi apparatus and others.
Buy nowViruses are acellular and non-living. The structure of virus particles includes genetic material, capsid and attachment protein.
Buy nowWithin multicellular organisms, not all cells retain the ability to divide. Eukaryotic cells that do retain the ability to divide show a cell cycle.
Buy nowBeing non-living, viruses do not undergo cell division. Following injection of their nucleic acid, the infected host cell replicates the virus particles.
Buy nowSet-up and use of an optical microscope to identify the stages of mitosis in these stained squashes and calculation of a mitotic index.
Buy nowThe basic structure of all cell membranes, including cell-surface membranes and the membranes around the cell organelles of eukaryotes, is the same.
Buy nowCells may be adapted for rapid transport across their internal or external membranes by an increase in surface area of, or by an increase in the number of protein channels and carrier molecules in, their membranes.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowEach type of cell has specific molecules on its surface that identify it. These molecules include proteins and enable the immune system to identify pathogens, cells from other organisms of the same species, abnormal body cells and toxins.
An antigen is any substance that when introduced into the blood or tissue induces the production of antibodies. Antigens are usually large complex molecules such as proteins or glycoproteins.
Buy nowPhagocytosis is a process wherein a cell binds to the item it wants to engulf on the cell surface and draws the item inward while engulfing around it.
Buy nowAdaptive immunity is immunity you develop over your lifetime. It can come from: a vaccine, exposure to an infection or disease
Buy nowVaccines are used to provide protection for individuals and populations against disease.
Buy nowHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replicated in helper T cells. After infection HIV causes the symptoms of AIDS.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowThe internal environment of a cell or organism is different from its external environment. The exchange of substances between the internal and external environments takes place at exchange surfaces. To truly enter or leave an organism, most substances must cross cell plasma membranes.
Changes to body shape and the development of systems in larger organisms as adaptations that facilitate exchange as this ratio reduces.
Buy nowVentilation and the exchange of gases occurs in the human lungs. The mechanism of breathing to include the role of the diaphragm and the antagonistic interaction between the external and internal intercostal muscles in bringing about pressure changes in the thoracic cavity.
Buy nowDuring digestion, large biological molecules are hydrolysed to smaller molecules that can be absorbed across cell membranes.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowGenetic diversity within a species can be caused by gene mutation, chromosome mutation or random factors associated with meiosis and fertilisation. This genetic diversity is acted upon by natural selection, resulting in species becoming better adapted to their environment.
In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, DNA molecules are very long, linear and associated with proteins, called histones. Together a DNA molecule and its associated proteins form a chromosome.
Buy nowThe genome is the complete set of genes in a cell and the proteome is the full range of proteins that a cell is able to produce. mRNA is used by the cell to produce proteins.
Buy nowGene mutations involve a change in the base sequence of chromosomes. They can arise spontaneously during DNA replication and include base deletion and base substitution.
Buy nowGenetic diversity is a factor enabling natural selection to occur. Natural selection results in species that are better adapted to their environment. These adaptations may be anatomical, physiological or behavioural.
Buy nowTwo organisms belong to the same species if they are able to produce fertile offspring. A phylogenetic classification system attempts to arrange species into groups based on their evolutionary origins and relationships.
Buy nowBiodiversity can relate to a range of habitats, from a small local habitat to the Earth. An index of diversity describes the relationship between the number of species in a community and the number of individuals in each species.
Buy nowAlleles may be dominant, recessive or codominant. In a diploid organism, the alleles at a specific locus may be either homozygous or heterozygous.
Buy nowIndividuals within a population of a species may show a wide range of variation in phenotype. This is due to genetic and environmental factors. The primary source of genetic variation is mutation.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowLife depends on continuous transfers of energy. In photosynthesis, light is absorbed by chlorophyll and this is linked to the production of ATP. In respiration, various substances are used as respiratory substrates. The hydrolysis of these respiratory substrates is linked to the production of ATP.
Photosynthesis is the name of the process whereby organisms convert light energy from the sun into sugar and other organic molecules. They can then go on to use these substances as chemical energy, in the same way, that humans use food. Photosynthesis is essential for almost all life on earth.
Buy nowRespiration is a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place within the cells of organisms. It stores biochemical energy within adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules. There are two types of respiration, aerobic and anaerobic. Respiration is the process of making ATP rather than breaking it down.
Buy nowIn any ecosystem, plants synthesise organic compounds from atmospheric, or aquatic, carbon dioxide. Most of the sugars synthesised by plants are used by the plant as respiratory substrates. The rest are used to make other groups of biological molecules. These biological molecules form the biomass of the plants.
Buy nowNutrients are recycled within natural ecosystems, exemplified by the nitrogen cycle and the phosphorus cycle. Microorganisms play a vital role in recycling chemical elements such as phosphorus and nitrogen.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowA stimulus is a change in the internal or external environment. Living organisms need to be able to respond to these changes in order to survive.
Organisms increase their chance of survival by responding to changes in their environment. Taxes and kineses as simple responses that can maintain a mobile organism in a favourable environment.
Buy nowA receptor detects a stimulus. A coordinator formulates a suitable response to a stimulus. An effector produces a response. Receptors are specific to one type of stimulus.
Buy nowCardiac muscle is myogenic, meaning it can contract and relax without receiving signals from the nervous system. Receptors pick up changes in the blood and transfer this to sensory nerves to alter heart rate.
Buy nowChanges in membrane permeability lead to depolarisation and the generation of an action potential in nerve cells.
Buy nowThe junction where two neurones meet is known as a synapse. A synapse consists of a presynaptic knob, synaptic cleft and postsynaptic membrane ·
Buy nowSkeletal muscles are stimulated to contract by nerves and act as effectors. Muscles act in antagonistic pairs against an incompressible skeleton.
Buy nowHomeostasis is the maintenance of a stable internal environment. Homeostasis in mammals involves physiological control systems that maintain the internal environment within restricted limits.
Buy nowInsulin is a hormone released from β-cells in the pancreas when blood glucose concentration rises in order to lower the concentration back to its optimum via negative feedback.
Buy nowThe kidneys are made if nephrons which help filter the blood. The blood undergoes ultrafiltration at the glomerulus due to the smaller diameter of the efferent arteriole than the afferent arteriole, creating high hydrostatic pressure.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowCells are able to control their metabolic activities by regulating the transcription and translation of their genome. Although the cells within an organism carry the same coded genetic information, they translate only part of it. In multicellular organisms, this control of translation enables cells to have specialised functions, forming tissues and organs.
Determining the genome of simpler organisms allows the sequences of the proteins that derive from the genetic code (the proteome) of the organism to be determined. This may have many applications, including the identification of potential antigens for use in vaccine production.
Buy nowGene mutations might arise during DNA replication. They include addition, deletion, substitution, inversion, duplication and translocation of bases.
Buy nowIn eukaryotes, transcription of target genes can be stimulated or inhibited when specific transcriptional factors move from the cytoplasm into the nucleus. The role of the steroid hormone, oestrogen, in initiating transcription.
Buy nowThere are many factors that control the expression of genes and, thus, the phenotype of organisms. Some are external, environmental factors, others are internal factors. The expression of genes is not as simple as once thought, with epigenetic regulation of transcription being increasingly recognised as important.
Buy nowThe use of labelled DNA probes that can be used to screen patients for heritable conditions, drug responses or health risks.
Buy nowThe technique of genetic fingerprinting in analysing DNA fragments that have been cloned by PCR, and its use in determining genetic relationships and in determining the genetic variability within a population.
Buy nowRecombinant DNA technology involves the transfer of fragments of DNA from one organism, or species, to another. Since the genetic code is universal, as are transcription and translation mechanisms, the transferred DNA can be translated within cells of the recipient (transgenic) organism.
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy nowSign Up for our A-Level Biology Online course today to get access to all the topics and more!
Buy now
Our A-Level Biology Online Course Subscriptions
Whether you want to subscribe to only A-Level Biology Course or more, we can provide you with a suitable subscription package just for you. Struggling to decide what support is right for you? We explain all our A-Level services in this quick video. If you would like a personalised package that isn't listed here, just contact us on the live chat on the right!
A-Level Biology Course Only
- AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE Specifications
- Video Tutorials
- Flashcards
- Exam Technique
A-Level Biology Course & Weekly Classes
- AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE Specifications
- Video Tutorials
- Flashcards
- Exam Technique
- Weekly Classes
A-Level Biology & Chemistry Course and Weekly Classes
- AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE Specifications
- Video Tutorials
- Flashcards
- Exam Technique
- Weekly Classes
A-Level Biology & Chemistry Course and Weekly Classes & Maths Weekly Classes
- AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE Specifications
- Video Tutorials
- Flashcards
- Exam Technique
- Weekly Classes
Upgrade to
Weekly Classes
Want to achieve the highest possible A-Level results? If this is the case, we strongly suggest you take part in our weekly A-Level Biology classes. We break down your thought process and aim to enhance and polish your exam technique over time in our A-level Biology courses.
Perfect A-Level Biology in 4 simple steps
A-Level Biology Strategies
Work through each of our 100+ A-Level Biology tutorials. You'll learn a new strategy in each lesson, and have the opportunity to practice and apply the techniques to realistic A-Level Biology questions.
Timing Techniques
Time pressure is the biggest challenge for students in A-Level Biology. In our timing tutorials, we drill you to work efficiently, accurately and quickly in all sections of A-Level Biology.
Mock Questions
Now it's time to drill, drill and drill the Study Mind A-Level Biology Techniques. Practice timed mocks using our realistic A-Level Biology question banks to improve your score!
Revise & Recap
As your A-Level Biology test day draws closer, spend some time reviewing the tutorials again, re-capping the core strategies and honing in on your weaker sub-topics and sections.
Our students love us, but don’t
just take our word for it:
Charlotte J
Chuck S
Corey D
Liz G
Katey L
Oliver C
Nick D
Stacy T
Tom W
Kendra JStill unsure?
Try before you buy
Try before you buy - watch our free videos to see why thousands love our A-Level Biology course!
FREE A-LEVEL BIOLOGY SAMPLE
Still got questions?
Don’t worry, we’ve got
you covered.
→It says I can cancel anytime, how does that work?
All you need to do is send an email to [email protected] with your payment reference and reason and we will cancel it for you.
→Which exam boards do you cover in the A-level and IB Biology Course?
After you purchase, we will enrol you in a specific course based on your specification for AQA, Edexcel, CIE, Pearson, OCR, with tailored tutorials matching to the specification.
→What is an A-Level Biology online course?
An A-Level Biology online course is an educational program that provides students with the opportunity to study biology at an advanced level, equivalent to the final two years of high school in the UK. Students can take an A-Level Biology course online to earn qualifications for higher education or future employment.
→How can I improve my A-Level Biology grades?
Enrol in our A-Level Biology online course to gain access to award-winning A-Level Biology resources! We'll go over theory and test-taking tactics to ensure you're prepared for your A-Level Biology exam! Utilize our revision notes, tutorials, past papers, and other resources.
→Should I take A-Level Biology?
If you're interested in biology, you should consider it! It's a fun lesson that teaches kids how to solve problems and think critically. If you wish to study specific biology courses at top universities, then you will need a high a-level biology score!
→What if I don't live in the United Kingdom?
That's OK! You can take our online course from anywhere on the globe! You can access all of our A-Level Biology Online courses totally online at your leisure for optimal efficiency.
→How will you study for A-Level Biology?
Our entire A-Level Biology online course is offered entirely online. Start with lesson 1 and progress through the course in a linear fashion, or skip to the topic you need. Your learning is flexible, allowing you to build your learning programme around the skills you need.
→When should I start with my A-Level Biology revision?
Some students will begin studying for the exam months ahead of time. We have students that will work hard and be ready in a matter of weeks. The A-Level Biology online course from Study Mind covers all of the topics and knowledge you need to ace your A-Level Biology!
→Are A-levels important for university?
Yes! If you want to go to university, you should know that most higher education courses require certain A levels or combinations of A levels. If you're not sure what career or profession you want to pursue, studying a variety of A levels will help you keep your choices open. If you want a career in medicine or a biology-related field, then you will need a-level biology!
→Why study A-Level Biology courses with Study Mind?
Our A-Level Biology online course is in high demand, and our course content is prepared by A-Level Biology experts who are dedicated to assisting you in acing your exam and earning A*s. We developed our A-Level Biology online course to help students achieve the grades and qualifications needed to achieve their ambitions.
→Can I buy A-Level Biology Tutoring later?
You can add 1-1 tutoring after purchasing our A-Level Biology Online Course, but we recommend booking it as part of a package to get the best value!
→Is the A-level and IB Biology course refundable?
All our courses are non-refundable when booked due to organisation logistics involved. If you have any concerns regarding the quality of the course, drop us an email at [email protected].
→Is IB biology the same as A-level biology?
IB Biology and A-Level Biology are similar in that they both cover a wide range of topics in biology and are designed for advanced study of the subject. However, there are some differences between the two courses.
IB Biology is part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which is an internationally recognized qualification. The course focuses on developing a broad range of scientific skills, including laboratory work and independent research. IB Biology also emphasizes the application of biological principles in real-world contexts.
A-Level Biology, on the other hand, is a qualification offered by UK schools and colleges. The course is focused on the scientific study of life and living organisms and covers topics such as cells, organisms, genetics, ecology, and evolution. A-Level Biology is widely recognized as a qualification for higher education in the UK and other countries.
Both courses are rigorous and demanding, and students who excel in either course will have a solid foundation in biology that can be applied in further studies or careers. Ultimately, the choice between IB Biology and A-Level Biology will depend on the student's goals, interests, and academic background.
Didn’t find the answer you’re looking for?
Feel free to contact us directly
