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 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 and is endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #334594 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-29
• Binding: Paperback
• 374 pages

Synopsis
Thisinternational 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 newchapter on conservationcovers 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 chapteraddressesthe 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.