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BIO 111 Basic Principle Of Biology

NCE1 levelSciences21 topics

BIO 111 covers 21 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Definition, brief history and
  2. Importance of science
  3. Scientific method: -
  4. Identifying and defining problem,
  5. Raising question, formulating
  6. Hypotheses, designing experiments to test hypothesis, collecting data,
  7. Science processes/intellectual skills:
  8. Classification, measurement etc
  9. Experimentation, prediction, Hypothesis,
  10. Communicating, Theory formulation etc
  11. Science of biology and its subdivisions: Botany, Zoology,
  12. Biochemistry, Microbiology, Ecology, Entomology,
  13. Genetics, etc.
  14. The Relevance of Biology to man: Application in conservation,
  15. Agriculture, public health, medical sciences etc.
  16. Relation of Biology to other science subjects
  17. Principles of classification:
  18. Brief history of classification nomenclature, and systematic
  19. The 5 kingdom system of classification.
  20. Living and non -living things: General characteristics of living things.
  21. Differences between plants and animals.

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Definition, brief history and

This topic introduces biology as the scientific study of life and gives a brief historical background to how the subject developed. For examination purposes, you should master the meaning of biology, its scope in relation to living things, and the major stages in its historical growth because these ideas form the foundation for all later biology topics.

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