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BIO 322 Applied Biology

NCE3 levelSciences30 topics

BIO 322 covers 30 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. Man’s Diseases and Health
  2. Disease – meaning, common tropical diseases, their causes, cure and
  3. Social and health problems of Tobacco consumption and the effect of
  4. Family life education. Sexually transmitted diseases /HIV-AIDS.
  5. Other social problems such as: prostitution) sex abuse and the effects on
  6. Ecological Consequences of Agriculture
  7. Relationship between monoculture and spread of plant diseases and pests
  8. Ecological effects of herbicides, pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
  9. Ecological Consequences of Urbanization and Industrialization
  10. Overpopulation and pressure on social amenities e.g. transporta tion and
  11. Solution to problems of population growth
  12. Birth control measures.
  13. Reproductive behavior e.g. early marriage, pre-marital sex,
  14. Population education in Biology – Preparation of charts and
  15. Effects on Man on his Environment
  16. Effects of man on vegetation, atmosphere, soils, water and water
  17. Pollution
  18. Definition: types of pollution (air pollution, water pollution, land
  19. Curses of pollution
  20. Effects of pollution (effects of air pollution, water pollution and land
  21. Control of pollution
  22. N.B. Special mention should be made to sewage and other forms of urban
  23. Conservation of Natural Resources
  24. Wildlife, minerals, forests, soil, water, atmosphere, fuel (e.g. crude oil)
  25. Methods of conservation and preservation of these resources.
  26. Field Trips
  27. Field Trips to game reserves to study rare species in their natural habitats
  28. Visit to areas of gully and sheet erosion
  29. Visit to notable areas of pollution e.g. polluted streams; mechanic
  30. N.B. Field trip/Excursion to game reserves or major areas of biological

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Man’s Diseases and Health

This topic focuses on the meaning of health and disease, the major categories of human diseases, how diseases are transmitted or develop, and the basic principles of prevention and control. For the exam, you must be able to distinguish communicable from non-communicable diseases, explain causes and routes of spread, and relate personal and community health measures to disease prevention.

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