Essays

Why multicellular organisms need specialised exchange surfaces, not single cells

## Why Multicellular Organisms Need Specialised Exchange Surfaces, but Single-Celled Organisms Do Not Life, in all its diversity, relies on the exchange of substances with the environment: oxygen for respiration, nutrients for growth, and removal of...

## Biology: Homeostasis Imagine running for a bus on a sweltering July afternoon in Manchester. Within minutes, beads of sweat appear on your brow, and your heart pounds faster to supply muscles with oxygen. Yet, despite this exerted sprint and the...

## Crime and Deviance: Evaluating Subcultural Theory Crime and deviance are unavoidable realities in any society, but their explanation remains fiercely contested in sociological thought. ‘Subculture’ describes a group whose values and lifestyles...

How Your Genes Shape You: Genetics, Environment and Ethics

## Biology: You and Your Genes This essay will explore the dynamic relationship between our genes and the individuals we become, looking at how genetic instructions inherited from our parents shape us, how environmental factors modify those traits,...

How Exercise Physiology Explains Energy, Performance and Recovery

## Exercise Physiology: The Science of Human Performance Exercise physiology explores the intricate ways in which the human body produces, utilises, and recovers energy during physical activity. At its heart, the discipline examines the dynamic...

## Unit 3 — Indicators of Secularisation Secularisation — the steady waning of religion’s social and cultural centrality — has been a major concern in British sociology since the mid-twentieth century. Far from being a monochrome process,...

## Feminism: Theories, Practices, and Implications for Gender Justice in the United Kingdom Feminism can be succinctly defined as a collection of social theories and activist movements dedicated to analysing and remedying gender-based inequalities....

# Biology: From Pathogens to Physiology—Understanding Life, Health and Disease ## Introduction Biology, as the study of living systems, offers a window into the profound complexities of health and disease, connecting microscopic events with...

## Education and Ethnicity: Causes, Mechanisms and Responses to Ethnic Inequalities in UK Schools In the landscape of British education, the relationship between ethnicity and educational outcomes is both longstanding and complex. 'Ethnicity'...

## Biology Module 3 — Microbiology Microbiology can be described as the exploration of life at its most minute scale — a journey into worlds invisible to the naked eye, where countless organisms thrive and interact in ways that shape our planet...