Human Biology
Description
In Biology, students develop their understanding of biological systems, the components of these systems and their interactions, how matter flows and energy is transferred and transformed in these systems, and the ways in which these systems are affected by change at different spatial and temporal scales.
Year 11 - Units 1 and 2
Unit 1: Biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life
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In Unit 1, students analyse abiotic and biotic ecosystem components and their interactions, using classification systems for data collection, comparison and evaluation.
Unit 2: Cells and multicellular organisms
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In Unit 2, students investigate the interdependent components of the cell system and the multiple interacting systems in multicellular organisms.
Year 12 - Units 3 and 4
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In Units 3 and 4, students examine the continuity of biological systems and how they change over time in response to external factors. They examine and connect system interactions at the molecular level to system change at the organism and population levels.
Unit 3: Heredity and continuity of life
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In Unit 3, students investigate mechanisms of heredity and the ways in which inheritance patterns can be explained, modelled and predicted; they connect these patterns to population dynamics and apply the theory of evolution by natural selection in order to examine changes in populations.
Unit 4: Maintaining the internal environment
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In Unit 4, students investigate system change and continuity in response to changing external conditions and pathogens; they investigate homeostasis and the transmission and impact of infectious disease at cellular and organism levels; and they consider the factors that encourage or reduce the spread of infectious disease at the population level.