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Edexcel A-level Biology Student Guide: Practical Biology
Edexcel A-level Biology Student Guide: Practical Biology
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Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Biology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 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
9781471885532
Cover
Title Page
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Contents
About this book
How the practical element is assessed
Skills Guidance
Practical advice
Core practicals
1 Rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction
2 Using a light microscope
3 Stages of mitosis
4 Effect of sucrose concentration on pollen tube growth
5 Effect of temperature on beetroot membrane permeability
6 Water potential of plant cells
7 Gas exchange system of a locust
8 Effect of environmental conditions on water uptake in a plant shoot
9 Factors affecting the rate of aerobic respiration
10 Investigating photosynthesis
11 Chromatography
12 Rate of growth of bacteria in liquid culture
13 Streak plating
14 Production of amylase in germinating cereals
15 Sampling methods and estimating the size of a population
16 Effect of abiotic factors on distribution or morphology of a species
Questions & Answers
1 Plant cell water potentials
2 Plasma membrane permeability
3 Enzyme-controlled reactions
4 Photosynthesis
5 Photosynthetic pigments
6 Respiration
7 Investigating the effect of gibberellin
8 Transpiration
9 Counting bacteria
10 Cell division
Index

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