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Revised Nuffield Biology 2: Living Things in Action

The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the third 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: Size and support

Chapter 2: Animal movement

Chapter 3: Maintaining a steady body temperature

Chapter 4: Living and breathing

Chapter 5: How we breathe

Chapter 6: Organisms at work

Chapter 7: Food

Chapter 8: How animals feed

Chapter 9: Getting food to the body

Chapter 10: Plants and the atmosphere

Chapter 11: Plants, food, and light energy

Chapter 12: Water and life

Chapter 13: Substances in solution

Chapter 14: Transport in animals

Chapter 15: Maintaining a 'steady state'

Appendix 1: List of chemical recipes

Appendix 2: Equipment

Appendix 3: Living organisms

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