Cambridge International AS and A Level Biology (9700)

Syllabus update: Cambridge International AS & A Level in Biology (9700)
for examination in 2019, 2020 and 2021

We have updated this syllabus. The latest syllabus is version 2, published August 2017.

What has changed?
Changes to syllabus

Detail
• Changes have been made to pages 42 and 70.
There has been a correction to the formula for Simpson’s Index of
Diversity

  n 2 
D = 1−  ∑   
 N  



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