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Unit 2 - Topic 1 - Field techniques for Biologists - Section A - Health and Safety
What presents a hazard,
What is risk,
What is a risk assessment
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Unit 2 - Topic 1 - Field techniques for Biologists - Section B - Sampling of Wild Organisms
How should sampling be carried out,
What considerations should be tak...,
What must be appropriate to the s...
7
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Unit 2 - Topic 1 - Field techniques for Biologists - Section C - Identification and Taxonomy
How can organisms be identified,
What two way can organisms both b...,
What does taxonomy involve and wh...
9
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Unit 2 - Topic 1 - Field techniques for Biologists - Section D - Monitoring Populations
What can the presence absence or ...,
What species can be used to monit...,
How do susceptible and favoured s...
6
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Unit 2 - Topic 1 - Field techniques for Biologists - Section E - Measuring and Recording Animal Behaviour
What are measurements used to qua...,
What is latency,
What is frequency
6
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Unit 2 - Topic 2 - Evolution - Section A - Drift and Selection
What is evolution,
During evolution how do changes i...,
What does natural selection act on
23
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Unit 2 - Topic 2 - Evolution - Section B - Fitness
What does fitness indicate,
What is fitness a measure of,
What does fitness refer to
6
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Unit 2 - Topic 2 - Evolution - Section C - Co-evolution
What is co evolution,
How does a change in the traits o...,
What is symbiosis
9
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Unit 2 - Topic 3 - Variation and Sexual Reproduction - Section A - Costs and Benefits of sexual and asexual reproduction
What are the costs of sexual repr...,
Why do the benefits outweigh the ...,
What does genetic variation provide
17
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Unit 2 - Topic 3 - Variation and Sexual Reproduction - Section B - Meiosis
What is meiosis,
How do chromosomes appear in dipl...,
What are homologous chromosomes
15
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Unit 2 - Topic 3 - Variation and Sexual Reproduction - Section C - Sex Determination
How can the sex of birds mammals ...,
In most mammals what gene on whic...,
What do heterogametic males lack ...
15
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Unit 2 - Topic 4 - Sex and Behaviour - Section A - Parental Investment
What is the difference between sp...,
Describe greater reproductive inv...,
What does parental investment do
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Unit 2 - Topic 4 - Sex and Behaviour - Section B - Reproductive Behaviours and Mating systems in Animals
What are animal mating systems ba...,
What is monogamy,
What is polygamy
16
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section A - Part I - Niche
What is an ecological niche,
What is a fundamental niche,
What is a realised niche
5
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section A - Part II - The Parasite Niche
What is parasitism,
What does a parasite gain from pa...,
How is parasitism different to a ...
6
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section B - Parasitic Life Cycles
How many hosts do parasites requi...,
What is a definitive host,
What is a vector
14
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section C - Transmission and Virulence
What is transmission,
What is virulence,
How are ectoparasites generally t...
9
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section D - Defence against Parasitic Attack
Immune response in mammals has wh...,
What are examples of non specific...,
Examples of physical barriers and...
15
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section E - Immune Evasion
What have parasites evolved,
What do endoparasites to do avoid...,
What does antigenic variation all...
4
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Unit 2 - Topic 5 - Parasitism - Section F - Challenges in Treatment and Control
What is epidemiology,
What is the herd immunity threshold,
What do vaccines contain
11
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