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Sydney Distance Education High School Preliminary Course Overview
Biology provides students with a contemporary and coherent understanding of the concepts explaining the functioning, origins and evolution of living things. It explores the levels of organisation of life, from the molecular level through cellular to higher levels of organisational structure and function. It includes developing an understanding of the interactions within and between organisms and their environment.
- Beginnings of Life
- Origin of Life
- Early Life
- Classification of Life
- Chemicals in Cells
- Osmosis and Diffusion
- Cell theory and the Light Microscope
- Electron Microscopes and Cell Organelles
- Obtaining and Transporting Materials in Plants
- Obtaining Materials in Animals
- Transporting Materials in Plants
- Growth and Repair
- Evolution of Australian Biota
- New Species and Theory of Evolution
- Plate Tectonics
- Changing Environments
- Adaptation to Desert Environments
- Reproductive Adaptations
- Evolution, Survival, Extinction
Local Ecosystems
- Abiotics and Biotic Factors
- Field Study
- Flow of Energy
- Human Impact
