What You Will Study

You will learn essential principles in the context of today’s themes and issues, such as how our actions enhance the antibiotic resistance of bacteria and lifestyle factors that increase the risk of cancer and heart disease.

In your first year, your learning will be focused on biological molecules, cells, organisms exchanging substances with their environment, genetic information, and variation and relationships between organisms. In your second year, you will explore energy transfers in and between organisms, how organisms respond to changes in their internal and external environments, genetics, populations, evolution, ecosystems and the control of gene expression.

Your course will combine detailed theoretical knowledge with practical research including laboratory work, interpreting data to solve scientific problems and writing in a scientific way. There will be opportunities to participate in external visits linked to your course, with previous students taking part in a mock autopsy experience, visits to the University of East Anglia to explore genetic engineering techniques and a biodiversity conference at Norwich Castle.