CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Car ib b e an Se con d ar y Ed ucat ion Ce r t if icat e ® CSEC® BIOLOGY SYLLABUS a) Effective for examinations from May–June 2015 NCH 2.SYLLABUS CXC 20/G/SYLL 13 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or
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* 1. Just Plane Smart Harvard Business School – Case Study Summary Abhishek Mehra Balaji P Saruabh Ranadive Sarang Bhutada * 2. The setting It’s summer of 1993 Southwest is expecting delivery of two uncommitted planes McGlade needs to find a way‚ to put these planes in operation‚ keeping the organizational objectives are intact Final decision would have to preserve the Southwest culture and spirit About Southwest Started as a intra-state operator in Texas Budget airline philosophy‚ survived a
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A central organizing concept in biology is that life changes and develops through evolution‚ and that all life-forms known have a common origin. The theory of evolution postulates that all organisms on the Earth‚ both living and extinct‚ have descended from a common ancestor or an ancestral gene pool. This last universal common ancestor of all organisms is believed to have appeared about 3.5 billion years ago.[21] Biologists generally regard the universality and ubiquity of the genetic code as definitive
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Study Guide Chapter 11: How Genes are Controlled I. How and Why Genes are Regulated? A. Gene Expression in Differentiated Cells 1. What does it mean to say that the cells in your body are differentiated? It means that the cells in the body are specialized to do certain tasks with some genes in a cell turned off and some genes in the cell turned on. 2. The great differences among cell types is due to the selective expression of its genes
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`Biology B1 Revision Classification • Organisms were based into groups based on their characteristics (classification). • Kingdom‚ Phylum‚ Class‚ Order‚ Family‚ Genus‚ Species Kingdom Main Characteristics Animalia Multicellular; heterotrophic feeders so no chlorophyll‚ no cell walls; complex cell structure with nucleus Plantae Multicellular; autotrophic feeders using chlorophyll; cell walls made of cellulose; complex cell structure with nucleus Fungi Multicellular; cell walls not made
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Describe and evaluate at least two biological treatments for schizophrenia Biological treatments arise from the medical model of abnormal behaviour‚ which considers mental disorder to be an illness of disease resulting from underlying biological factors. Most people with schizophrenia receive some form of drug therapy. Drug therapy is the most common treatment‚ using antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs aims to help patient function as well as possible and increasing patient’s feelings of well
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BioLab3 DNA Structure and Function Lab Report Student Name: I. DNA Structure Define the following terms: Purines A colorless crystalline compound with basic properties‚ forming uric acid on oxidation. Pyrimidines A colorless crystalline compound with basic properties; a substituted derivative of this‚ especially the bases thymine and cytosine present in DNA. Nucleotides A compound consisting of a nucleoside linked to
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Compare and contrast two main areas of Psychology The two key areas of psychology this essay will compare and contrast are Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Psychology. The definition of ‘compare’ is to examine in order to observe resemblances or differences. The role of Cognitive Psychologists involves an investigational approach to understanding people’s mental processes for example‚ perception‚ attention‚ memory‚ language and how people think and learn. In similarity the role of
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Organism Physiology Paper The Physiological Evolution of the Crocodile Mother Nature diversity in regards to the animal kingdom is amazing. Throughout the Centuries‚ there have been changes to the globe and therefore to the habitat of the humans‚ animals‚ plants and all of the infinite organisms that live in our planet. However‚ even though there have been changes‚ the living organisms also have adapted to their new environment by changing their genetic composition and acquiring new characteristics
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sub-microscopic creatures living in large clusters and having a very short life and are said to pervade each and every part of universe‚ even in tissues of plants and flesh of animals.[21] However‚ the earliest known idea to indicate the possibility of diseases spreading by yet unseen organisms was that of the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in a 1st-century BC book titled On Agriculture in which he warns against locating a homestead near swamps:… and because there are bred certain minute creatures that
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