Continuning Life Processes: Ecology and Evolution - New Edition 2019

Author(s): achel Heeney and Peter Shepherd

Biology Year 12 (level 2 NCEA)

Revised and updated.
A complete text and workbook package for NCEA Level 3 Biology.

Continuing Life Processes, Ecology and Evolution presents material in a way that meets the needs of all groups of students, allowing them to understand the important principles of biology and how the scientific process works.

Each of the Achievement Standards for NCEA Level 3 Biology is covered with an emphasis on gaining a solid understanding of the principles and processes involved.

Features:

- Extensive practice in answering biology questions from multiple choice, cloze activities and true/false exercises through to in-depth discussions and practical activities
- A great variety of activities from relevant contexts
- NCEA-style questions and practice exams
- Ideas, tips and examples to unpack the meaning of each Standard
- Photos, diagrams and images to help explain key concepts
- Feature articles on New Zealand scientists, showing the fascinating applications of biology in the real world

What's New?

- Comprehensively updated to reflect changes in assessment and new developments in science
- New profiles of scientists working in the field in New Zealand, and their work
- Now an integrated text-and workbook so students are able to develop a full set of notes for exam preparation


Product Information

Rachel Heeney has had 25 years experience in teaching biology (and is still a full time Head of biology), and has met with many teachers throughout New Zealand to get a clear picture of the needs of the New Zealand biology students. She has been involved in many roles in biology education and here works with Professor Peter Shepherd to provide a cutting-edge approach to science with familiar NCEA-style and approachable language.

Introduction -
The power of memory – how to remember all that stuff

1. Investigations in year 13
The Level 3 investigation
How to achieve: background to the scientific method
Types of investigations you may be looking at
Investigations in action

2. Biology issues in today’s society
Deciding which issue to study
Topical socio-scientific issues

3. Animal behaviour and plant responses
The environment and responses to it
Orientation in time (circaannual, circadian, circalunar and circatidal rhythms)
Timing in animals
Endogenous and exogenous rhythms
Timing in plants
Orientation responses
Plant orientation: Tropic and nastic responses
Animal orientation responses: kinesis and taxes
Homing
Migration
Navigation
Interspecific relationships
Intraspecific relationships
Territoriality
Reproductive behaviour
Co-operative behaviour
Hierarchical behaviour in social animals

4. Maintaining a stable internal environment
How do homeostatic mechanisms work?
Examples of homeostatic mechanisms
NZ scientists working in the homeostasis field

5. Processes leading to speciation
Terms used in speciation
Recapping Year 12 biology: species, mutations and gene pools
The role of natural selection and genetic drift in evolution
Speciation
Reproduction isolating mechanisms that lead to speciation
Polyploidy
Types of evolution
Rates of evolution
Evidence for evolution

6. Human evolution
Evolution
Being a primate
Studying hominin evolution: Paleoanthropology
Introduction to hominins: Where did we come from?
The earliest hominins
The genus Australopithecus
The genus Homo
Homo sapiens: modern humans
Dispersal from Africa

7. The biological implications of manipulating genetic material
How is the genetic material manipulated by humans?
Method 1: Selective breeding
Method 2: Modifying the expression of existing genes
Method 3: Cloning organisms
Method 4: Transgenics

8. Scholarship
So you want to sit scholarship biology?

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