An essential companion for biology students throughout your entire degree programme, this seventh edition of Practical Skills in Biology, has been updated and expanded to provide you with a complete and easy-to-read guide. It’s an all-in-one solution for the key practical skills needed for biology and all biosciences, including: comprehensive coverage of study and examination skills; fundamental laboratory and field methods; investigative and analytical techniques and analysis and presentation of data. This new edition comes with increased coverage on laboratory skills, new chapters on working with bacteria, eukaryotic microbes and viruses, and on assaying biomolecules, as well as new sections on online learning in a post-COVID world. In addition, 300 new and updated illustrations, tables, and tips – including 25 new ‘how to’ boxes – have been added, along with numerous end-of-chapter study exercises (with answers provided on the companion website) to support self-evaluation. “A comprehensive and useful text on the practical techniques used in the biological sciences.” Dr Zenobia Lewis, University of Liverpool
"This excellent book is a must for all biology departments...tells you all you ever wanted to know about practical techniques but didn't like to ask" Journal of Biological Education "There...
Now in its second edition Practical Skills in Biology continues to provide students with easy-to-read guidance for laboratory and field studies - building on its strong reputation as an essential...
Written by experienced teacher John Campton, this Student Guide for practical Biology: - Help students easily identify what they need to know with a concise summary of practical work examined in the A-level specifications.
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Student Unit Guides are perfect for revision. Each guide is written by an examiner and explains the unit requirements, summarises the relevant unit content and includes a series of specimen...
If you are a student of biology then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme.
Practical Skills in Biology "This excellent book is a must for all biology departments...tells you all you ever wanted to know about practical techniques but didn't like to ask" Journal of Biological Education "There is something here for ...
This book, now in its third edition, continues to provide students with easy-to-use guidance for laboratory and field studies, but in addition it now covers broader transferable skills.
- Become accomplished scientists: the workbook provides a series of investigations with step-by-step guidance which leads you through the method and the use of apparatus, complete with safety notes.
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