Biology

Year 11 2024
 How to succeed in Biology…

1. Complete your homework and assignments on time and READ the feedback
2. Read over and make notes on what you do in class each day – you might like to
use an address book to construct your own dictionary of terms
3. Explain what you learnt to someone (whether they want to hear it or not)
4. Borrow/ buy study guides and work through the content and questions
5. Ask questions in class as soon as you get stuck
6. Ask questions in your own time
7. Date your work, any sheets or homework and your syllabus
8. Practice, practice, practice!

9. Be proactive and keep at it. Year 11 is a huge leap from Year 10.
It’s all in the details….
Stage 6 Biology Course Structure

The Working
Scientifically
outcomes and
content are
integrated into each
module wherever
students undertake
an investigation.
 Handouts

• DoE Syllabus Module 1 --> See pp.36-37 of pdf

at NESA website (Links to an external site.)

• DoE Syllabus Preliminary Working Scientifically

Skills --> See pp.33-35 of pdf at
NESA website (Links to an external site.)

• NESA keywords
 Preliminary HSC Biology

Module 1. Cells as the basis of life

Module 2. Organisation of living things

Module 3. Biological diversity

Module 4. Ecosystem dynamics

…..all in 3 terms!
NOTE:

Prelim
course is 3
terms only
Depth Studies
 Preliminary Course Overview
1. Cells as the basis of 2. Organisation of living
life things
Cell Structure Organisation of cells
- Prokaryotes and - Unicellular vs colonial
eukaryotes vs multicellular
- Cell organelles - Cell specialisation
- Drawing scaled - Cell hierarchy
diagrams
Cell Function Nutrient and gas
- Movement of requirements
materials into and - Autotrophs vs
out of cells heterotrophs
- Cell requirements - Microscopes
(energy, matter, - Plant structures
waste removal) - Gas exchange
- Enzyme action - Digestion
Transport
- Transport system
structures and
function
- Gas exchange
between internal and
external environment
3. Biological diversity
Effect of the environment on
organisms
- Abiotic and biotic selection
pressures
- Population changes
Adaptations
- Structural, physiological
and behavioural
- Evidence for the Theory of
Evolution by Natural
Selection
Theory of Evolution by Natural
Selection
- Biological diversity
- Accumulation of
microevolutionary changes
- Convergent and divergent
evolution
- Punctuated equilibrium
Evolution – the Evidence
- Modern day evolution
4. Ecosystem dynamics
Population dynamics
- Abiotic and biotic
factors
- Extinction event
example
Past ecosystems
- Evidence for change in
ecosystems
- Reasons for changes in
past ecosystems
Future ecosystems
- Managing future
ecosystems/future
impact
- Restoring damaged
ecosystems
 HSC Biology: A Preview…
Module 5. Heredity

Module 6. Genetic Change

Module 7. Infectious Disease

Module 8. Non-infectious Disease and Disorders

 HSC Course Overview
5. Heredity 6. Genetic Change 7. Infectious Disease 8. Non-infectious Disease and
Disorders
Reproduction Mutation Causes of infectious disease Homeostasis
- Sexual and asexual - Cause, effect and - Feedback loops
reproduction transmission - Maintaining internal
- Pregnancy and birth in - Pathogen adaptations environments
mammals
- Reproduction in agriculture

Cell replication Biotechnology Responses to pathogens Causes and effects

- Cause and effect of non-infectious
DNA and polypeptide synthesis disease in humans
- Incidence, prevalence and
mortality rates

Genetic variation Genetic Immunity Epidemiology

- Meiosis technologies - Immune response - Patterns in populations
- Frequency of characteristics - Applications - Possible future research
in a population - Effect on directions
biodiversity

Inheritance patterns in a Prevention, treatment and Prevention

population control
- Use of technology - Global spread of disease
- Population genetics - Pharmaceutical
treatments
- Predicting and controlling
thew spread of disease Technologies and disorders
- Indigenous medicine - Technological assistance to
manage and assist with the effects
of disorder
 Some housekeeping…
The syllabus:
https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-
learning-areas/stage-6-science/biology-2017
ALWAYS GO TO LATEST VERSION

Equipment:
- Consider a separate book for practicals with an index/contents page.
- Shoes, hair ties.

Assessment:
See Assessment Information Booklet

N-award warnings:
– Attendance and effort (class work AND homework)
– You need to “pass” prelim course to do the HSC course