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.
Product details
- Publisher : Hodder Murray (January 1, 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 374 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0719580536
- ISBN-13 : 978-0719580536
- Grade level : 10 - 12
- Item Weight : 2.6 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.75 x 10.5 inches
