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I've sent requests to join this and the Chemistry society, if an admin/mod could approve them that would be much appreciated :smile:
Can any university biology students give me some titles of some good books they've read/recommend?

I've read 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre and 'Language of the Genes' by Steve Jones, any similar idea's? Based on Biology, I'd prefer not to read physics because I flopped it at GCSE. I'm currently an A-level student and I am planning to study Biomedical science at the University of Warwick(Conditional on I get ABB)

Thanks :smile:
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Original post by Eloades11
Can any university biology students give me some titles of some good books they've read/recommend?

I've read 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre and 'Language of the Genes' by Steve Jones, any similar idea's? Based on Biology, I'd prefer not to read physics because I flopped it at GCSE. I'm currently an A-level student and I am planning to study Biomedical science at the University of Warwick(Conditional on I get ABB)

Thanks :smile:


'Elephants on Acid' is quite a good easy book. It's about weird experiments and how people tested certain hypothesis- like wine tasters can't tell the difference between red wine and white if it is dyed
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'Elephants on Acid' is quite a good easy book. It's about weird experiments and how people tested certain hypothesis- like wine tasters can't tell the difference between red wine and white if it is dyed


Thanks a lot, I'll definitely look into it :smile:
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Original post by Eloades11
Can any university biology students give me some titles of some good books they've read/recommend?

I've read 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre and 'Language of the Genes' by Steve Jones, any similar idea's? Based on Biology, I'd prefer not to read physics because I flopped it at GCSE. I'm currently an A-level student and I am planning to study Biomedical science at the University of Warwick(Conditional on I get ABB)

Thanks :smile:


As mentioned Elephants on Acid is fun :smile:

If you fancy some slightly more sciency ones (not that those aren't, but Bad Science and EonA are both quite short and sweet rather than a continuous trend) Genome by Matt Ridley is FANTASTIC. Also have a look at Virolution (awesome story but a bit more of a slog), The Secret Life of Trees (although maybe not if you don't already like trees - I've heard it called dry); umm The Selfish Genius is good if you're interested in evolution (especially if Richard Dawkins annoys you already)... If you want something quite easy and a bit poppy then Seven Daughters of Eve is nice enough (just frustrating if you expected it to be wholly scientific) Oh and Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane :smile:
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As mentioned Elephants on Acid is fun :smile:

If you fancy some slightly more sciency ones (not that those aren't, but Bad Science and EonA are both quite short and sweet rather than a continuous trend) Genome by Matt Ridley is FANTASTIC. Also have a look at Virolution (awesome story but a bit more of a slog), The Secret Life of Trees (although maybe not if you don't already like trees - I've heard it called dry); umm The Selfish Genius is good if you're interested in evolution (especially if Richard Dawkins annoys you already)... If you want something quite easy and a bit poppy then Seven Daughters of Eve is nice enough (just frustrating if you expected it to be wholly scientific) Oh and Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane :smile:


Thanks a lot, I think I'll look into matt ridleys Genome and I've noted down what everyones said :smile:
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Thanks a lot, I think I'll look into matt ridleys Genome and I've noted down what everyones said :smile:




Yeah another bump for Genome, a very good book, can get a bit complicated in places but good. I still have the Selfish Gene and Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins to read. Anyone read them? Any good?

Read Origin of Species and wasn't that impressed (am I allowed to say that?:biggrin:). The theory and stuff is good but didn't like the way it was written "Never use one word when 10 will do" applies I feel.

Still got Power, Sex and suicide to read also. Got a lot of reading to do in Summer.:smile:
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Hi guys, I'm at uni, first year Biomed. Can someone please help me with this stuff on spores in bacteria? I'd really appreciate it.
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Does anyone have the Examiner Report of the coursework of Edexcel last year?
hi guys - doing some revision and I don't trust this website im using. Is it true that pioneer plants don't change the environment / facilitate??
Method of measuring curvature of a radicle??
Please help me!!!
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hi guys - doing some revision and I don't trust this website im using. Is it true that pioneer plants don't change the environment / facilitate??


Pioneer plants change some of the abiotic factors, eg, how rich the soil is (nutrients)
And yes, they do facilitate. I wouldn't trust the website youre using if I were you.
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Pioneer plants change some of the abiotic factors, eg, how rich the soil is (nutrients)
And yes, they do facilitate. I wouldn't trust the website youre using if I were you.


But I don't think they change the immdediate enviroment so I mean like bushes providing habitats and food chains ect .. it changes it to start the process of succession
could someone please define the terms for me;

target tissue
respiratory substrate

thanks
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could someone please define the terms for me;

target tissue
respiratory substrate

thanks


The target tissue is the group of cells that a compound, e.g. a hormone is supposed to work at. For example, the target tissue for adrenaline is a heart tissue.

A respiratory substrate is a compound that will bind to an enzyme, in order to facilitate respiration (aerobic or anaerobic), such as glucose.
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The target tissue is the group of cells that a compound, e.g. a hormone is supposed to work at. For example, the target tissue for adrenaline is a heart tissue.

A respiratory substrate is a compound that will bind to an enzyme, in order to facilitate respiration (aerobic or anaerobic), such as glucose.


thanks :smile:
Is this book recommended for A Level Biology?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0321536169/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&m=A3KK0S74UJZEWZ
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No, it depends on the school and exam board
a good one for OCR is OCR biology heinmann

or advanced biology micheal kent for all exam boards AS and A2
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Advanced Biology by Jones and Jones is excellent! :biggrin:

Didn't realise it was that expensive though! :colondollar:
can someone help me with my thread, so far i have 149 views but no reply ):

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