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GCSE Additional ScienceWhat's changed?

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Biology unit 2

  • Structure of algal, bacterial and yeast cells
  • Animal and plant tissues, organs and systems
  • Additional uses of glucose in plants and algae
  • Terms homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype and genotype
  • Polydactyly as an example of an inherited disorder
  • Details about fossil formation
  • Speciation
  • Organisms and their environment
  • Physiological changes during exercise (from B3)
  • Glucose/glycogen conversion (from B3)
  • Anaerobic respiration (from B3), Origins of life on Earth (from B1) and Fossils as evidence of evolution (from B1)
  • Extinction (from B1)
  • Osmosis (to B3)
  • Material and energy in biomass (to B1)
  • Efficiency of food production (to B3 )
  • Decay processes and the carbon cycle (to B1)
  • Homeostasis (to B3)
  • Mineral deficiencies in plants
  • Huntingdon's disease as an example of an inherited disorder

Chemistry Unit 2

  • Formulae of ionic compounds
  • Fullerenes
  • Thermosoftening and thermosetting polymers
  • Electroplating
  • Extraction of aluminium
  • Alloy properties in terms of their structure and bonding (from C1)
  • Reactants and reaction conditions affecting polymer properties (from C1)
  • Analysis of food additives (from C1)
  • Instrumental methods for chemical analysis (gas chromatography and mass spectrometry) (from C3)
  • Charges on protons, neutrons and electrons and atom neutrality (to C1 )
  • Difference between elements in terms of proton numbers (to C1)
  • Electronic structure of atoms and relationship with the periodic table (to C1 )
  • Effects of changing conditions on equilbria (to C3)
  • Haber process (to C3)
  • Atom economy

Physics unit 2

  • Elasticity and Hooke's law
  • Gravitational potential energy
  • Light emitting diodes
  • Atomic structure and radioactivity (from P1)
  • Star life cycles (from P3)
  • Danger and uses of static electricity
  • Relationship between force, change in momentum and time
  • Explanation of live and neutral terminals of a mains electricity supply