Allan Jones, Rob Reed, Jonathan Weyers

Practical Skills in Biology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A comprehensive and useful text on the practical techniques used in the biological sciences."

- Dr Zenobia Lewis, University of Liverpool

Practical Skills in Biology is an essential companion for anyone studying Biology and Biological Science, providing a 'one-stop' guide to the fundamental laboratory and field skills you need to succeed in your studies.

Now in its seventh edition, this indispensable resource has been updated and expanded throughout, including a new section on online learning, offering a complete and easy-to-read guide and further strengthening its reputation as the practical resource for students.

Key features:

• Provides comprehensive coverage of study and examination skills, including self-management and well-being, teamwork, data analysis and effective learning techniques to help you improve your performance in assignments and exams.
• Helps you to master investigative and analytical techniques.
• Demonstrates how to analyse and present data.
• Includes new content on working with bacteria, eukaryotic microbes and viruses, online learning,designingand conducting surveys, work placements and videography.
• Contains over 300 new and updated illustrations, tables,tipsand hints, including 25 new 'how to' boxes.
• Includes over 250 end-of-chapter study exercises to support your learning and check your understanding and progress, with answers available on a useful companion website.

Authors

Allan Jones, Chancellor's Award Fellow in Ecology, Environmental Science and Zoology at the University of Dundee, UK.

Rob Reed, Professor Emeritus (Education and Science) at Central Queensland University, Australia.

Jonathan Weyers, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee, UK.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson ITP
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781292397054
• Artikelnr.: 63113599

Autorenporträt

Allan Jones, Chancellor's Award Fellow in Ecology, Environmental Science and Zoology at the University of Dundee, UK.

Rob Reed, Emeritus Professor (Education and Science) at Central Queensland University, Australia.

Jonathan Weyers, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee, U

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 
List of abbreviations 
Study strategies  
1. Developing your skills
2. Self-management 
3. Learning effectively 
4. Making the most of learning resources 
5. Locating and citing published information 
6. Evaluating information 
7. Working with others 
8. Mapping your personal development
Assessment skills  
9. Succeeding in assessments 
10. Scientific writing 
11. Writing essays 
12. Reporting practical and project work 
13. Tackling literature surveys and reviews 
14. Presenting written assignments
15. Preparing a poster 
16. Giving a spoken presentation 
17. Revision strategies 
18. Improving your performance in exams
Fundamental laboratory techniques  
19. Preparing for practical work 
20. Working safely in the lab and field
21. Basic laboratory skills
22. Measuring and dispensing liquids 
23. Preparing solutions principles and practice 
24. Measuring and maintaining pH 
The investigative approach  
25. Making measurements 
26. Understanding SI units and their use 
27. Observational skills 
28. Recording data in the laboratory and field 
29. Drawing diagrams
30. Taking samples 
31. Designing experiments 
32. Understanding bioethics 
33. Tackling project work and placements
Obtaining and identifying specimens  
34. Collecting animals and plants 
35. Collecting and isolating microbes 
36. Fixing and preserving specimens 
37. Naming and classifying organisms 
38. Identifying plants and animals 
39. Identifying microbes 
Examining specimens and samples  
40. Understanding microscopy 
41. Preparing specimens for light microscopy 
42. Setting up and using a light microscope 
43. Interpreting microscope images 
44. Recording and processing photographic images 
45. Measuring growth and responses 
46. Dissection techniques 
Working with microbes, cells and tissues  
47. Learning sterile technique 
48. Culturing cells 
49. Working with bacteria 
50. Working with eukaryotic microbes: fungi and protists 
51. Working with viruses 
52. Working with animal and plant tissues and cells 
Environmental investigations  
53. Developing fieldwork skills 
54. Describing ecosystems 
55. Analysing aquatic environments 
56. Analysing soils and sediments 
57. Measuring atmospheric variables 
58. Measuring light 
Analytical techniques  
59. Understanding chemical analysis 
60. Understanding calibration and quantitative analysis 
61. Assaying biomolecules 
62. Centrifugation techniques 
63. Using spectroscopic methods 
64. Using chromatographic systems 
65. Methods of electrophoresis 
66. Studying Mendelian and population genetics 
67. Investigating molecular genetics 
68. Using immunological methods 
69. Studying enzymes 
70. Measuring oxygen content 
71. Quantifying photosynthesis and respiration 
72. Using radioisotopes 
73. Analysing stable isotopes 
Analysing and presenting data  
74. Manipulating and transforming raw data 
75. Analysing data with spreadsheets 
76. Summarising data in tables 
77. Illustrating data in graphs 
78. Solving numerical problems 
79. Using descriptive statistics 
80. Selecting and interpreting statistical tests 
Appendix 1  
Index