Endocrine System & Hormones (With Exam Questions) - GCSE IGCSE Biology Revision 2024

Learn everything you need to know on the topic of The Endocrine System for your GCSE Biology or IGCSE Biology exam, including glands, hormones, and a worked example exam question.

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Learn (almost) everything you need to know about the endocrine system with our GCSE & IGCSE biology revision video, explaining hormones and their crucial roles in the human body complete with example questions and worked examples you can use to revise for your exams.

This biology revision video, suitable for all AQA, Edexcel, and OCR Gateway exam boards, gives you a quick guide to understanding chemical messengers and the glands that secrete them, such as the master pituitary gland, the thyroid, pancreas, adrenal glands, and reproductive glands - ideal for studying for your GCSE's

After watching the quick revision video you'll have learned about the science behind hormones like ADH, thyroxine, insulin, adrenaline, testosterone, and oestrogen, and how they regulate everything from metabolism to our fight or flight response.

Our GCSE & IGCSE tutors will guide you through the endocrine system's structure, ensuring you can identify and label key glands, understand hormone synthesis, secretion, and the lock and key model of hormone-receptor binding.

Our tutors also give you worked examples and example questions on the endocrine system based on past exam papers.

We'll also compare the endocrine system's slow, widespread chemical messaging to the rapid, localised electrical impulses of the nervous system, highlighting their roles in homeostasis - useful to know ahead of your exam.

This video is an essential revision if you want to pass your GCSE & IGSCE exams as it helps you understand the intricacies of hormonal communication and the endocrine system.

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Chapters:
00:00 What is a hormone?
00:42 The Endocrine System explained
01:30 Enzyme specificity
02:13 How hormones are transported around the body
03:26 Comparing Nervous and Endocrine System
04:31 Example question on Endocrine System based on past exam papers
05:13 Summary

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