| Activities designed to assist students to interpret, manipulate and analyse biological data whilst relating the task to theoretical knowledge. Teachers will find the activites in this book useful as supplementary material for practical work, as materials for relief teacxhers or as homework.
Topics Included:
- Effects of temperature and pH on enzyme activity
- Feedback control of blood sugars in humans
- Products extracted from blood products
- Temperature regulation in ectotherms and endotherms
- Temperature regulation and water loss in humans
- The adaptations of mangroves
- Water balance in terrestrial environments
- Gill surface and level of activity in fish
- Inheritance of eye colour
- Wompoo fruit dove and adaptation
- Using amino acid sequences to define evolutionary relationships
- The mutagenic nature of Agent Orange
- Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
- Using pedigrees to determine inheritance of genetic diseases
- Smallpox
- Monitoring drinking water quality. |
