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OCR A-level Biology Student Guide: Practical Biology
Richard Fosbery
OCR A-level Biology Student Guide: Practical Biology
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Exam Board: OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Economics
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: Summer 2016

Ensure your students get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills needed to succeed with an in-depth assessment-driven approach that builds and reinforces understanding; clear summaries of practical work with sample questions and answers help to improve exam technique in order to achieve higher grades.

Written by experienced teacher Martin Rowland, this Student Guide for practical Biology:
- Help students easily identify what they need to know with a concise summary of required practical work examined in the A-level specifications.
- Consolidate understanding of practical work, methodology, mathematical and other skills out of the laboratory with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers in the back of the book.
- Provide plenty of opportunities for students to improve exam technique with sample answers, examiners tips and exam-style questions.
- Offer support beyond the Student books with coverage of methodologies and generic practical skills not focused on in the textbooks.

Language
English
ISBN
9781471885631
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Title Page
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Contents
About this book
Skills Guidance
Practical activities
Microscopy
Qualitative testing
Using a colorimeter
Chromatography
Transport in and out of cells
Sampling techniques 1 (populations)
Rates of enzyme-controlled reactions
Dissection
Using a potometer to measure rates of water uptake
Sampling techniques 2 (ecosystems)
Microbiological techniques
Electrophoresis
Measuring plant or animal responses
Investigative and research techniques
Questions & Answers
Question 1 Investigating the effect of exercise on heart rates
Question 2 Investigating the effect of ethanol on yeast respiration
Question 3 The effect of pH on the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction
Question 4 The effect of a pollutant on a common marine invertebrate
Question 5 Protein electrophoresis
Question 6 Histology of the pancreas
Index
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