Book 3 covers Diseases, Ecology and Palaeontology through a range of activities in a format suitable for revision, assessment and homework, or as extension for more able students.
Topics Included:
- What is life?
- Health and disease
- The bodies defence system
- Role of white blood cells
- Pathogens and antigens
- Robert Koch
- Malaria
- SARS
- Louis Pasteur and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- Dependence among organisms
- Ecosystems
- Bioaccumulation and biomagnification
- Heavy metal pollution- Minimata Bay
- DDT- Peregrine falcon
- Parasitism, mutualism and commensalism
- Behavioural adaptation
- Strata and fossils
- Vertebrate evolution
- Primates
- Homo sapiens
- Human evolution
- Development of human culture