Gemma Young

AQA GCSE Biology Workbook: Higher

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Matched to the student book, this essential workbook supports students as they progress through AQA GCSE Biology. When completed, students have a personalised guide to help get their exam revision off to a confident start.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 293mm x 207mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198421672
• ISBN-10: 0198421672
• Artikelnr.: 49097800

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter B1 Cell structure and transport
B1.1: The world of the microscope
B1.2: Animal and plant cells
B1.3: Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
B1.4: Specialisation in animal cells
B1.5: Specialisation in plant cells
B1.6: Diffusion
B1.7: Osmosis
B1.8: Osmosis in plants
B1.9: Active transport
B1.10: Exchaning materials
Chapter B2 Cell division
B2.1: Cell division
B2.2: Growth and differentiation
B2.3: Stem cells
B2.4: Stem cell dilemmas
Chapter B3 Organisation and the digestive systems
B3.1: Tissues and organs
B3.2: The human digestive system
B3.3: The chemistry of food
B3.4: Catalysts and enzymes
B3.4: Factors affecting enzyme action
B3.6: How the digestive system works
B3.7: Making digestion efficient
Chapter B4 Organising animals and plants
B4.1: The blood
B4.2: The blood vessels
B4.3: The heart
B4.4: Helping the heart
B4.5: Breathing and gas exchange
B4.6: Tissues and organs in plants
B4.7: Transport systems in plants
B4.8: Evaporation and transpiration
B4.9: Factors affecting transpiration
Chapter B5 Communicable diseases
B5.1: Health and disease
B5.2: Pathogens and disease
B5.3: Growing bacteria in the lab
B5.4: Preventing bacterial growth
B5.5: Preventing infections
B5.6: Viral diseases
B5.7: Bicterial diseases
B5.8: Disease caused by fungi and protists
B5.9: Human defence responses
B5.10: More about plant diseases
B5.11: Plant defence responses
Chapter B6 Preventing and treating disease
B6.1: Vaccination
B6.2: Antibiotics and painkillers
B6.3: Discovering drugs
B6.4: Developing drugs
B6.5: Making monoclonal antibodies
B6.6: Uses of monoclonal antibodies
Chapter B7 Non-communicable diseases
B7.1: Non-communicable diseases
B7.2: Cancer
B7.3: Smoking and risk of disease
B7.4: Diet, exercise, and disease
B7.5: Alcohol and other carcinogens
Chapter B8 Photosynthesis
B8.1: Photosynthesis
B8.2: The rate of photosynthesis
B8.3: How plants use glucose
B8.4: Making the most of photosynthesis
Chapter B9 Respiration
B9.1: Aerobic respiration
B9.2: The response to exercise
B9.3: Anaerobic respiration
B9.4: Metabolism and the liver
Chapter B10 The human nervous system
B10.1: Principles of homeostasis
B10.2: The structure and function of the human nervous system
B10.3: Reflex actions
B10.4: The brain
B10.5: The eye
B10.6: Common problems of the eye
Chapter B11 Hormonal coordination
B11.1: Principles of hormonal control
B11.2: The control of blood glucose levels
B11.3: Treating diabetes
B11.4: The role of negative feedback
B11.5: Human reproduction
B11.6: Hormones and the menstrual cycle
B11.7: The artificial control of fertility
B11.8: Infertility treatments
B11.9: Plant hormones and responses
B11.10: Using plant hormones
Chapter B12 Homeostasis in action
B12.1: Controlling body temperature
B12.2: Removing waste products
B12.3: The human kidney
B12.4: Dialysis - an artifical kidney
B12.5: Kidney transplants
Chapter B13 Reproduction
B13.1: Types of reproduction
B13.2: Cell division in sexual reproduction
B13.3: The best of both worlds
B13.4: DNA and the genome
B13.5: DNA structure and protein synthesis
B13.6: Gene expression and mutation
B13.7: Inheritance in action
B13.8: More about genetics
B13.9: Inherited disorders
B13.10: Screening for genetic disorders
Chapter B14 Variation and evolution
B14.1: Variation
B14.2: Evolution by natural selection
B14.3: Selective breeding
B14.4: Genetic engineering
B14.5: Cloning
B14.6: Adult cell cloning
B14.7: Ethics of genetic technologies
Chapter B15 Genetics and evolution
B15.1: The history of genetics
B15.2: Theories of evolution
B15.3: Accepting Darwin's ideas
B15.4: Evolution and speciation
B15.5: Evidence for evolution
B15.6: Fossils and extinction
B15.7: More about extinction
B15.8: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria
B15.9: Classification
B15.10: New systems of classification
Chapter B16 Adaptations, interdependence, and competition
B16.1: The importance of communities
B16.2: Organisms in their environment
B16.3: Distribution and abundance
B16.4: Competition in animals
B16.5: Competition in plants
B16.6: Adapt and survive
B16.6: Adaptation in animals
B16.7: Adaptation in plants
Chapter B17 Organising in ecosystem
B17.1: Feeding relationships
B17.2: Materials cycling
B17.3: The carbon cycle
B17.4: Rates of decomposition
Chapter B18 Biodiversity and ecosystems
B18.1: The human population explosion
B18.2: Land and water pollution
B18.3: Air pollution
B18.4: Deforestation and peat destruction
B18.5: Global warming
B18.6: The impact of change
B18.7: Maintaining biodiversity
B18.8: Trophic levels and biomass
B18.9: Biomass transfers
B18.10: Factors affecting food security
B18.11: Making food production efficient
B18.12: Sustainable food production