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Nuffield Science Activities for GCSE
General editor
Mary Whitehouse
Biology editor
Diane Galloway
Biology contributors
Andrew Hunt
John Kearsey
Jean McLean
Grace Monger
Alastair Sandiforth
Paul Spencer
Tim Turvey
Biology safety adviser
Philip Bunyan
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3EG
© Nuffield Foundation 1996
Illustrations by Hugh Neill and Oxford Illustrators
We are grateful to Addison Wesley Longman for permission to reproduce many of the
drawings in this book.
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Acknowledgements
Page 34: drawing based on Roberts, MBV Biology for life Nelson, 2nd edn 1986
Page 36: drawing based on Mackean, DG GCSE Biology John Murray, 1986
Page 63: cartoon by Paul Boyes
Page 83: drawings based on photomicrographs in McLeish, J. and Snoad, B. Looking at
chromosomes Macmillan, 1958
Page 120: map from Patterson, KD and Pyle, GF 'The geography and mortality of the 1918
influenza pandemic' Bulletin of the history of medicine 65 (1) 4-21, spring 1991.
Activity B33 contains extracts, reproduced with permission, from University of London
Examinations and Assessment Council GCSE Biology examination paper
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