Biology
Biology is offered from Years 9 through to Year 13.
Examination board : Edexcel
- Explore life with Biology which is a gateway to understanding the working of Mother Nature and helps explore how different organisms interact with each other and with the environment.
- At IGCSE (years 10 and 11), you will be intrigued by how little building blocks eventually stack up to form functional systems such as the circulatory, digestive, nervous & reproductive systems.
- Along with what is visible to the naked eye the subject delves into what cannot be seen. At Advanced Level (years 12 and 13), the structure of micro-organisms and the nature of DNA will be elucidated.
- Endless career possibilities in the field of Biological Sciences. Biology is a pre-requisite for the study of Medicine in many universities.
- Biology provides a platform for research and development which opens out to a vast range of opportunities in Forensics, Micro-biology, Genetic Zoology, Embryology, Environmental Biology or Biotechnology.
- With the sequencing of the Human Genome project, new opportunities have arisen in the fields of Pharmacology, Immunology and Bio-chemistry.