Year 12 HSC Biology

Learn.

• Skills
  • Validity, reliability, accuracy and precision

• Module 5: Heredity
  • Reproduction
    • Mechanisms of reproduction
      • Experiment: Bread mold
      • Experiment: Culturing microbes
    • Features of reproduction in mammals
    • Reproduction in agriculture
  • Cell replication
    • Mitosis
    • Meiosis
    • The Structure of DNA
    • Fundamentals of DNA Replication
    • DNA Replication (Extension)
  • DNA and polypeptide synthesis
    • Biology’s Building Blocks
    • RNA Transcription
    • Molecular Biology’s Central Dogma
    • Polypeptide Synthesis (video)
  • Genetic variation
    • The theory of evolution by natural selection (year 11 recap)
  • Inheritance patterns in a population

• Module 6: Genetic change
  • Mutation
    • Polymerase Chain Reaction [Extension]
    • Sanger Sequencing [Extension]
  • Biotechnology
  • Genetic technologies

• Module 7: Infectious disease
  • Pasteur and Koch
    • Experiment: Modelling Pasteur’s experiment
  • Causes of infectious disease
  • Responses to pathogens
    • In depth: Malaria
  • Immunity
    • Immune Response
  • Prevention, treatment and control
  • How the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Works [Extension]

• Module 8: Non-infectious disease
  • Homeostasis
  • Causes and effects
  • Epidemiology
  • Prevention
  • Technologies and disorders

Study

• Sample internal exams
  • Infectious diseases module 7 exam
• Sample Trial and HSC exams
  • Year 12 Biology Trial Paper
  • HSC 2019 Biology paper
  • HSC 2020 Biology paper