This is an international edition of the widely used textbook "GCSE Biology". It provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the core and supplementary topics specified in the IGCSE Biology syllabus. In particular: there is additional information on topics such as B and T lymphocytes, infertility, performance-enhancing hormones, fluoridation of water supplies, impact of hunting and over fishing and global warming; an additional chapter on selective breeding and cloning; an additional chapter on conservation which 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; a final chapter on observation and experiment looks at the type of questions that can be investigated scientifically and the nature of evidence; and past examination questions have been updated.

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Product Description

This international edition of the widely-used textbook GCSE Biolog provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the core and supplementary topics specified in the IGCSE Biology syllabus. 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
• a new chapter on applied genetics draws together and expands the information on selective breeding, genetic engineering, cloning, genetic fingerprinting and the human genome project
• a new 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
• a new chapter addresses the development of biological ideas and the principal contributors to these ideas, from Galen to Watson to Crick
• a new final chapter on observation and experiment looks at the type of questions that can be investigated scientifically and the nature of evidence
• and past examination questions have been updated.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #585155 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 374 pages

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Don Mackean