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What it means to be healthy, for a person and for a community. Acute and chronic disease, the immediate and contributory causes of illness, and infectious against non-infectious disease.
The microbes that cause disease and how they spread. How an infection affects the body, the principles of treatment and of prevention, and how vaccines and a healthy community keep disease away.
How a crop variety is improved, and how nutrients, irrigation and cropping patterns raise the yield. Then protecting a crop from weeds, pests and disease, and storing the grain.
Raising cattle for milk and draught, poultry for eggs and meat, and fish from the sea and from ponds. Then bee-keeping, and the care that each of these needs.
How human activities change the environment: the ozone layer and its depletion, biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste, and how we can manage our garbage.
What an ecosystem is, its living and non-living parts, producers, consumers and decomposers, food chains and webs, trophic levels, the ten per cent law and biological magnification.
Why offspring differ from their parents, and how Mendel's pea plants revealed dominant and recessive traits, the 3:1 ratio and the 9:3:3:1 ratio.
How a gene makes a protein that shows as a trait, how genes sit on chromosomes and pass on, and how the sex of a child is decided.
The changes of puberty, the male and female reproductive systems, fertilisation and the growth of the embryo, and how people look after their reproductive health.
Why the copying of DNA is never perfect, and why that matters. Fission, budding, fragmentation, regeneration, spores and vegetative propagation, then sexual reproduction in flowering plants.
Plants respond to light, gravity, water and touch, and their hormones control growth. In animals, glands release hormones that control growth, sugar and the body's response to danger.
Follow a message along a nerve cell and across a synapse. See why a reflex is so fast, and what the forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and spinal cord each do.
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The test is near, and you have a lot to remember. In this course we put the whole chapter on two pages. You get a table of every tissue, a list of the pairs that students mix up, and a drill with clues. Then you solve some problems, find your weakest topic with a small program, and take an exam-style paper.