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BIO 224 Biology Practicals Iv

NCE2 levelSciences31 topics

BIO 224 covers 31 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. Objectives;
  2. Experiments to demonstrate that Chlorophyll light and cabondioxide, are
  3. Experiments to show that starch and oxygen are products of
  4. Experiments to show tropisms in plants
  5. Examination of various excretory products from plants e.g. trains gums,
  6. Experiments on Transpiration to show:
  7. Evidence of transpiration in plants
  8. Rate of transpiration.
  9. Factors affecting transpiration rates.
  10. Study of slides in spermatogenesis and oogenesis.
  11. Gross and microscopic structures of the kidney.
  12. Slides of various tissues should be examined under strict supervision and
  13. Examination of slides of various organs.
  14. Population studies using sampling techniques.
  15. Observation of succession in the suitable habitat e.g. plant succession
  16. Identification of diseases associated with cash crops mentioned in the
  17. Dentition in herbivores, carnivores and omnivores compared
  18. Enzyme action of food substances, e.g. action of salivary amylase on
  19. Factors affecting enzyme action
  20. Measurement of heart beat and effect of exercise on heart beat.
  21. Measurement of breathing rate and effect of exercise on breathing rate.
  22. Determination of various taste sites on the tongue
  23. Determination of the blind spot on the eye
  24. Effect of sight on balancing
  25. Dissection of mammals showing the location of various organs and
  26. Digestive system
  27. Respiratory system
  28. Excretory system
  29. Circulatory system
  30. Reproductive system
  31. The system above could also be shown in the frog/toad for comparison.

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Objectives;

This topic focuses on the objectives of Biology Practicals IV: why practical work is done, what skills students are expected to gain, and how those skills support biological understanding. For the exam, you must know that practical biology is not mere observation; it trains accurate observation, measurement, experimentation, recording, analysis, and safe scientific attitude.

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