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AQA A-level Biology Student Guide: Practical Biology
Jo Ormisher
AQA A-level Biology Student Guide: Practical Biology
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Exam Board: AQA
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 an experienced teacher, 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
9781471885600
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
About this book
How the practical element is assessed
Skills Guidance
Practical advice
Required practical activities
1 Factors affecting the rate of enzyme-controlled reactions
2 Preparing and observing a root tip squash
3 Using a calibration curve to estimate water potential
4 Factors affecting membrane permeability
5 Dissection of an organ or system from an animal or plant
6 Using aseptic techniques to investigate the effect of antimicrobials
7 Using chromatography to investigate leaf pigments
8 Factors affecting dehydrogenase activity in chloroplasts
9 Factors affecting the rate of respiration in single-celled organisms
10 The effect of an environmental variable on animal movement
11 Using a calibration curve to find an unknown concentration
12 The effect of environmental factors on species distribution
Questions & Answers
1 The effect of pH on starch hydrolysis
2 Preparing an onion root tip squash
3 The effect of sucrose concentration on osmosis
4 The effect of temperature on membrane permeability
5 Estimating the number of stomata
6 The effect of antibiotics on bacterial growth
7 Using chromatography to investigate leaf pigments
8 Investigating photosynthesis using a chloroplast suspension
9 Using a respirometer to investigate oxygen uptake
10 The effect of light on maggot behaviour
11 Using a calibration curve to find glucose concentration
12 The effect of distance from a tree on leaf size
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