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How to Pass Higher Human Biology
Harry Hoey,Tony Aitken,Rab Dickson

Paperback
RRP: £8.99
ISBN: 9780340927052
ISBN-10: 0340927054

Published: 23/02/2007
Extent: 160 pages
Illustrations: 90+ b/w illustrations

Series: How To Pass - Higher Level

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Summary:
How to Pass Higher Human Biology offers a comprehensive guide aimed at Higher candidates. No book can guarantee an examination pass, but - like all titles in the Hodder Gibson How to Pass series - this book combines an overview of the course syllabus and exam requirements, as well as a guide to revision techniques and advice on sitting the examination itself. Finally, the series offers unique insights into what markers are actually looking for, so that users of this book will avoid unnecessary mistakes - and should gain those extra marks that are so essential to moving up a grade...

  • Part of a series aimed specifically at Scottish examination candidates
  • Attractive and eye-catching series design
  • All titles written by practising teachers and experienced examiners

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Skills in answering exam type questions
The role of enzymes in cell metabolism
Protein synthesis
Energy transfer
Cell transport
Cellular response in defence
Chromosomes as vehicles of inheritance
Monohybrid inheritance, mutations and chromosome
Reproduction and Development
Transport mechanisms
Delivery and removal of materials
Regulation mechanisms
Nervous system
Memory
Behaviour
Population growth and the environment

About the Author(s):
Tony AItken is a Higher Biology Examiner and a teacher of Biology in Dunfermline. Rab Dickson is Senior Examiner for Standard Grade Biology and a former Head of Science in an Edinburgh school. Harry Hoey is a former Principal Assessor for Higher Biology and a former teacher of Biology in Glasgow.

Readership:
Higher grade students

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