Authors: Martin Hanson

Publisher: Nelson Cengage Learning 2013

Pages: 368

Suitable: Secondary NCEA Level 3

Description:

Excellence in Biology Level 3 has been fully updated to take the realignment of Level 3 Biology into account. This resource has a highly visual approach and presentation. Hundreds of specially drawn illustrations, all in full colour, help students to understand biological concepts. The text includes comprehensive coverage of external NCEA Level 3 Achievement Standards and also the internally-assessed. How animals maintain a stable internal environment and Human manipulation of genetic material and its biological implications. The content is biologically accurate and rigorous, and maximum priority is given to linking concepts. Each chapter concludes with a summary of essential facts and ideas, and a quick self-test of basics. Extension material is also provided for deeper understanding.

Part 1: Responses of Organisms to their Environment

1. Introduction to behaviour

2. Biological clocks

3. Seasonal behaviour and photoperiodism

4. Orientation in animals

5. Orientation in plants: Tropisms

6. Competition

7. Exploitation: Predation and parasitism

8. Cooperative interactions and commensalism

9. Courtship, parental care and life history strategies

Part II: Homeostasis in Animals

10. Introduction to homeostasis

11. Nervous communication and integration

12. Effectors: Muscle

13. Hormonal regulation

14. Control of body water: Osmoregulation

15. Control of blood sugar

16. Control of blood pressure

17. Control of respiratory gases

18. Regulation of body temperature

Part III: Evolution in a New Zealand Context

19. Evolutionary basics: Lamarck, Darwin and Weisman

20. Genes in populations

21. How do new species arise?

22. Patterns in evolution

Part IV: Human Evolution

23. Primate legacy

24. A peculiar ape

25. Prelude to fossils: Rocks and dating

26. The first hominins: The Australopithecines

27. The first stone tools: Homo habilis

28. The use of fire: Homo erectus

29. Archaic Homo sapiens: Homo heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis and the Denisovans

30. The first modern humans

31. The origin and spread of Homo sapiens

32. The Neolithic revolution: Agriculture and settlements

Part V: Biotechnology

33. Recombinant DNA technology: Tools of the trade

34. Applications of techniques in biotechnology