General Biology sites
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Open Learn
Part of the Open University site, has course materials at an introductory level which could provide interesting background reading on various topics.
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Science News for Students
Lots of Science News articles written for secondary age students, with links to original papers and glossaries provided for new vocabulary. Great for reading around the subject.
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Tree of Life
Interactive internet project – more than 1630 pages covering all groups of organisms
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Tutorvista
US revision notes style site – many topics covered with clear diagrams.
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Vbiology
Really very useful site produced by a teacher for AQA and OCR specifications. Here you will find powerpoints, revision notes, lots and lots of past paper questions and mark schemes, all organised very neatly into topic areas. Currently for “old” scheme rather than new one, but this is not a problem as much of the content is the same. All you need for revision is here.
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zeroBio
Site written by a teacher in the US for his students – contains some good quizzes on biological topics – for A level students look at the grade 11 and grade 12 pages