Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences – Single Science: Biology

The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' guide for Biology enabled teachers to prepare students for separate-subject Biology GCSE examinations. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching order suggested for the main course.

There were two extension strands to make up the full subject:

(1) Economically important organisms The diversity of economically important organisms. The need to manage such organisms efficiently, but also humanely. The importance of maintaining species diversity as a source of gene variation. Procedures such as artificial insemination, embryo transplantation and transgenic procedures to increase yields and disease resistance, and the related ethical issues.

(2) Biology and the health of the World's population The study of organisms which cause a range of common infectious diseases, the effects of the organisms on the human body, and the symptoms caused. Protection against disease, including vaccination and antibiotics. The connection between lifestyle and coronary heart disease, and its treatment.