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Revised Nuffield Biology 4: the Perpetuation of Life

The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the fifth year of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra help in the teachers’ guide included: *indications of possible teaching sequences *flow diagrams outlining the contents of each chapter *answers or comments related to questions in the Student Text.

Contents

Foreword Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition

Chapter 1: Similarities and differences in living things

Chapter 2: How do similarities and differences come about?

Chapter 3: The material of inheritance

Chapter 4: The origin of characteristics

Chapter 5: Development

Chapter 6: Patterns and problems of development

Chapter 7: Different ways of breeding

Chapter 8: The control of human breeding

Chapter 9: The selection of a new generation

Chapter 10: Evolution

Appendix 1: List of chemical recipes

Appendix 2: Animals and plants

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