Authors: Sue Jarvis & Ann Schofield

Published: 2007

Publisher: Nelson Cengage Learning

Format: Paperback

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Suitable: Secondary NCEA Level 3

This book completes the senior school Biology course and provides a highly illustrated, compact text for students in the Bursary year of New Zealand secondary school Biology courses.

PART A: BEHAVIOUR AND RESPONSES
2006 NCEA Achievement Standard 3.4
Unit 1: Environmental factors
Unit 2: Animal orientation behaviour
Unit 3: Animal timing behaviour
Unit 4: Cooperative animal relationships
Unit 5: Non-cooperative animal relationships
Unit 6: Plant orientation responses
Unit 7: Plant timing responses
Unit 8: Hormones & plant responses
Unit 9: Plant relationships

PART B: DNA AND GENE EXPRESSION
2006 NCEA Achievement Standard 3.3
Unit 10: Role of DNA in gene expression
Unit 11: Role of proteins in gene expression
Unit 12: Mutations
Unit 13: Gene interactions & expression
Unit 14: Gene linkage & inheritance

PART C: PROCESSES AND PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION
2006 NCEA Achievement Standard 3.5
Unit 15: Evolution and natural selection
Unit 16: Speciation and isolating mechanisms
Unit 17: Patterns of evolution

PART D: TRENDS IN HUMAN EVOLUTION NCEA
Achievement Standard 3.7
Unit 18: Comparing apes and humans
Unit 19: Trends in biological evolution
Unit 20: Comparing Hominin species
Unit 21: Trends in cultural evolution

PART E: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES 2006 NCEA
Achievement Standard 3.6 Unit 22: Biotechnological techniques
Unit 23: Applications of techniques
Unit 24: Meeting Human needs and demands

Index
Glossary
Answers