IB Diploma Programme · First exams 2025

IB Biology.
Rebuilt.

The complete IB DP Biology syllabus, redesigned as a modern teaching resource. Four themes, forty topics, every guiding question, every key term — built for students, optimised for clarity.

4Themes
40Topics
524Sub-topics
SL+HLLevels
A B C D
Four themes · Each at four scales

The whole syllabus, by theme.

Each theme runs through all four levels of biological organisation — molecules, cells, organisms, ecosystems — so the same idea gets explored at every scale.

A

Unity and Diversity

How the staggering variety of life ultimately rests on a small number of shared ideas — water, cells, descent, biodiversity.

9topics
B

Form and Function

The shape of life. Why every molecule, every cell and every organ is built the way it is — because structure determines what it can do.

10topics
C

Interaction and Interdependence

Nothing alive is alone. From the chemistry of enzymes to the architecture of ecosystems, life is made of conversations.

9topics
D

Continuity and Change

DNA copies itself; cells divide; populations evolve. The mechanisms that keep life going — and the ones that let it become something new.

12topics