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Biology 20

Toolkits

Deep dives on the ideas that show up everywhere. Each one starts with why the idea exists at all — the problem it was invented to solve, what it actually does, and where it turns up outside a classroom — and then goes through it properly: the full explanation, the table you actually need, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost marks.

Every unit

Follow the energy

Ecology, photosynthesis, respiration and human systems are one story told at three scales: where energy comes from, how it is stored, and how it is delivered.

Open the toolkit

Human systems

Surface area and gradients

Villi, alveoli, capillaries, the nephron and the folds inside a mitochondrion are five answers to one physical problem. Naming the pattern makes half the course predictable.

Open the toolkit

How to use these

  • Wondering why any of this is a thing? Read the opening section. It is the part a textbook usually skips.
  • Stuck on a question type? Open the toolkit for that idea and find the worked example closest to it.
  • Revising? Read the tables and try the checks, then go to practice questions to see whether it stuck.
  • Revising for a final? There is no diploma exam in Grade 11, so your school sets the exam — the printable worksheets are the closest thing here to sitting one.