DESCRIPTION:
The third edition of this comprehensive texbook has been written
to reflect developments in the specifications for GSCE Science; the biology
section of GCSE Science Double Award and equivalent examinations.Amendments have been made to the text and illustrations. In
particular: there is additional information on topics such as clinical trials,
B and T lymphocytes, infertility, performance-enhancing hormones, fluoridation
of water supplies, impact of hunting and over-fishing, global warming, biofuels
and global travel and disease; an additional chapter on applied genetics draws
together and expands the information on selective breeding, genetic
engineering, cloning, genetic fingerprinting and the Human Genome Project; an
additional chapter on conservation covers extinction, conservation of species,
conservation of genes; conservation of habitats and conservation of resources;
a revised chapter on ecosystems includes information on adaptations and factors
which affect communities; examination questions have been updated using past
papers; there is an additional chapter on the development of biological ideas
and the principal contributions to these ideas from Galen, to Watson and Crick;
and a final chapter on observation and experiment which looks at the type of
questions that can be investigated scientifically and the nature of the
evidence.
CONTENTS:
Section 1 Some principles of biology. Section 2 Flowering plants.
Section 3 Human physiology. Section 4 Genetics and heredity. Section 5
Organisms and their environment. Section 6 Living organisms. Section 7
Micro-organisms and humans.
SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS [BIC]:
Biology, life sciences [YSS]
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