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            <title>Protein structure</title>
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            <title>Missing link?</title>
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            <description>Scientists discover a missing link between fish and land animals. An animal called a Tiktaalik was thought to have lived about 375 million years ago. Click on this link to read more about the discovery in the Guardian newspaper.Here is a link to the website for the Tiktaalik (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>The development of life on earth</title>
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            <description>Here is a link to a simple timeline about the evolution and development of life. It is important to remember just how long evolution needs to take place - not quite like Homer Simpson!Here is a link to a more complicated time line but it is well worth a look. It is beuatifully illustrated and very detailed. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Human evolution has stopped</title>
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            <description>Click in this link to hear a radio programme from 7th October 2008. It is an interview with a geneticist talking about why he thinks human evolution has stopped. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>The creationist museum</title>
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            <description>A Channel 4 news story about a creationist museum opened in Kentucky, USA (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Scientists' views on why the theory of evolution is right</title>
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            <title>The evolution of homer simpson.</title>
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            <description>BRILLIANT! (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Creationism disproved</title>
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            <description>This is a really interesting video on the evolution of the eye. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Natural selection made easy</title>
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            <title>The amazon rainforest</title>
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            <title>Coral reefs</title>
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            <title>The stroke association</title>
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            <description>This is a link to the Stroke Association website. It has loads of information about causes and symptoms of strokesDo you know what a TIA is?? (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Myocardial infarction</title>
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            <title>Mutations</title>
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            <description>A link to an easy summary on mutations, including some good detail on chromosomal mutations (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Drugs to treat hypertension</title>
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            <description>Factsheet on Ace InhibitorsFactsheet on calcium channel blockers (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Tree of life web project</title>
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            <title>Meiosis</title>
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            <title>Insects 'will be climate change's first victims'</title>
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            <description>Adapted from the Independent 8th May 2008Tropical insects rather than polar bears could be among the first species to become extinct as a result of global warming, a study has found.Insects in the tropics are already living at the limit of their temperature range and any further increases could quickly kill them off with huge repercussions for tropical habitats, which rely on insects for everything from pollination to waste disposal. Scientists have found that a rise in average temperatures in the tropics of just 1C or 2C could be enough to exert a significant and harmful effect on the survival of a wide variety of important insects.Climate scientists predict that the polar regions will experience the greatest increases in average temperatures this century as a result of climate change, bu...</description>
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            <title>Tomorrow's sports stars: is talent all in the genes?</title>
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            <description>THIS IS A LONG ARTICLE FROM THE INDEPENDENT ON MAY 8TH 2008Some people are born to play football. So says David Beckham's official website. After attending the Bobby Charlton Soccer School at 11, Beckham was selected to be a trainee for Manchester United at just 16 years old. The rest, as we know, is history, tattoos and Gillette razor blades. But what if footballers really are born and not made? A test to determine whether a child will turn into an élite soccer player is the stuff of football managers' dreams. Recently, a European club approached Dr Henning Wackerhage, from the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Aberdeen, to ask if he could genetically screen for potential football stars. It's not as fanciful as it sounds – there is already a &quot;Sports Performance&quot; gene te...</description>
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            <title>Pavlov's dogs</title>
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            <description>A game about Pavlov's Dogs.You need to read the very short instructions on how to play first.It takes about 5 minutes to play. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>The cell cycle game</title>
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            <description>As recommended by jenni T.Have a go, you might enjoy it!The cell cycle game (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Dna micro arrays</title>
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            <description>This amazing technique is used to compare DNA from different cells to see which genes are functioning in each cell. If particular genes are working in cells of dieases tissues that are not functional in normal tissue, it can be an indication that a particular gene may be linked to a condition. Watch the animation below which simply explains how Micro arrays are carried out. Don't worry, you won't be asked anything technical in the exam.Micro array animation (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>The immune sysytem  game</title>
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            <description>Have a go at this game. let me know what you think (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Climate change - two sides to the argument</title>
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            <description>In response to the USA not signing the 1997 Kyoto agreement to limit greenhouse gases and to the power of the oil industry, environmental campaigners have set up a ‘Stop Esso’ campaign. Using the links below, look up both sides of the argument.Write a summary (key points of all the positive aspects of Esso/Exxon and what they are doing to prevent climate change.Write a summary (key points) of why Esso/Exxon is problematic where climate change is concerned. Your two summaries will provide different perspectives of the same issue. Which one should you believe? What would happen if you only had access to one of the two summaries?STOP ESSO CAMPAIGN WEBSITEESSO/EXXON WEBSITEA CONVENIENT SOLUTIONwatch this short video made by Greenpeace on climate change, renewable energy and nuclear power. ...</description>
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            <title>Drugs and neurotransmitters</title>
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            <description>Click on this link to read more about the ways in which drugs can affect synapses, including the effects of alcohol and cannabis (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Animal testing</title>
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            <description>Check out these websites to get more of an insight into animal testingThe bbc hot topics pagesThe Home Office website about animal testingThe BUAV website - against animal testingUncaged website - against animal testingProctor and Gamble website - Users of animal testing (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Succession</title>
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            <description>A link to a good animation of succession (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Climate and butterflies</title>
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            <description>Click on this link to watch a video of A news story about how climate is threatening species of butterflies in the UK (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Climate change and species distribution</title>
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            <description>Click on this link to see how climate change is affecting different coastal species in the UK (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>A clip from one of my favourite TV shows... interesting stuff (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Ct scan of the brain</title>
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            <title>Mri scans of the brain</title>
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            <title>Selective breeding gone too far?</title>
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            <description>This is a clip from teh video you may have seen in class. The 'Belgian Blue' is a product of selective breeding.Do you think it is right to breed animals to this extent?What about breeding plants?Would you eat a steak from this animal?Let me know your views! (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>is a technique used to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. Two humans will have the vast majority of their DNA sequence in common. Genetic fingerprinting exploits highly variable repeating sequences called minisatellites. Two unrelated humans will be unlikely to have the same numbers of minisatellites at a given locus.PCR is used to obtain enough DNA to then detect the number of repeats at several loci. It is possible to establish a match that is extremely unlikely to have arisen by coincidence, except in the case of identical twins, who will have identical genetic profiles. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>click on this link to watch a news story about the first human clone made from a nucleus of a skin cell! It's the first video on the right hand side. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>Use this link below to find out more about GM crops. I would like you to carry out the activity on the page about risk and benfits. Decide if the statement is political, environmental or economical, then look for evidence on the website to back up that statement.Make notes in your study guide. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>Click on this link to watch a video about Aliens in London!It is the video on the right hand side.Leave a comment to let me know what you think (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>What is peat?</title>
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            <description>Peat is vegetable matter which has been partially carbonized due to the way in which it decomposes. Over time, peat deposits have the potential to evolve into coal. There are a number of uses for peat, although the two primary uses are as a type of fuel and as a fertilizer. Many countries exploit and sell their peat resources, especially Ireland, Scotland, and Finland. In these nations, blocks of peat are readily available as a fuel source, and peat is also sold in less compacted form for gardeners.The process of peat formation is very slow. Moss is one of the primary components of peat, although it may also contain other plant matter such as grasses and shrubs. In addition, peat often contains decomposing material of animal origin. In order to form peat, conditions must be wet, acidic, an...</description>
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            <description>The fastest man on no legs now has the Olympics in his sightsBy ROB DRAPER 7th July 2007 For Pistorius, a talented sprinter who had both his legs amputated when he was a baby, it is just an indication of how far he has come – and how much more he could achieve. In a groundbreaking race next weekend in Sheffield, 20-year-old Pistorius will take on the current Olympic champion. Not as some freak show or demonstration race – but because for the first time in history, a disabled runner has earned his place among the world's elite on merit. &quot;Already a Paralympic champion and world-record holder in amputee races over 100m, 200m and 400m, Pistorius is now achieving something revolutionary. With aid of high-tech carbon-fibre legs, he is almost as fast as the best able-bodied runners in the wor...</description>
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            <title>A clump of cells? or a living being with a soul?</title>
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            <description>By Jeremy Laurance, Health EditorWednesday, 26 March 2008 Is a bunch of cells just that: a bunch of cells, as scientists would have it, or is it, as the Catholic Church insists, a human being with a soul? It is the dispute that lies at the heart of the controversy over the Embryo Bill and it is as fundamental a difference of opinion as it is possible to imagine. Gordon Brown promised Labour MPs a free vote on the most emotive measures in the Bill, in effect throwing open the debate to the entire country. It is a piece of legislation that challenges our deepest notion of what it is to be human and what it is right to sanction in the interests of scientific progress. The specific issues are: allowing research into possibilities such as making sperm from bone marrow that might mean women coul...</description>
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            <description>What an amazing creature! (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>Concern over menstrual blood bank</title>
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            <description>An article taken from Monday, 12 November 2007Experts have expressed concern over the launch by a US company of a service for women to store their own menstrual blood. Cryo-Cell says its bank is designed for women who want to store their own stem cells, taken from the menstrual blood, as a future health insurance. The hope is that medical advances will one day mean stem cells can be used to cure diseases such as cancer. A UK expert accused the company of capitalising on people's fear. Stem cell banking Stem cells can be obtained from numerous sources, including the blood, bone marrow and embryos. Private companies, including Richard Branson's Virgin Health Bank, already offer umbilical cord blood banking for about £1,500.  This is all hypothesis and hype UK stem cell expert Professor Pete...</description>
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            <description>Watch out for the term 'EKG' - it means the same as 'ECG'.Also, the animation calls the Purkyne fibres 'bundle branches' (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>A very short video on strokes (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>A simple animation of how a synapse works (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <title>A quick guide to biofuels</title>
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            <description>What are biofuels? Biofuels are any kind of fuel made from living things, or from the waste they produce. This is a very long and diverse list, including:wood, wood chippings and strawpellets or liquids made from woodbiogas (methane) from animals' excrementethanol, diesel or other liquid fuels made from processing plant material or waste oilIn recent years, the term &quot;biofuel&quot; has come to mean the last category - ethanol and diesel, made from crops including corn, sugarcane and rapeseed. Bio-ethanol, an alcohol, is usually mixed with petrol, while biodiesel is either used on its own or in a mixture. Pioneers such as Henry Ford and Rudolph Diesel designed cars and engines to run on biofuels. Before World War II, the UK and Germany both sold biofuels mixed with petrol or diesel made from crud...</description>
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            <description>Seeds of some genetically modified crops can endure in soil for at least 10 years, scientists have discovered. Researchers in Sweden examined a field planted with experimental oilseed rape a decade ago, and found transgenic specimens were still growing there. This was despite intensive efforts in the intervening years to remove seeds. No GM crop has been found to endure so long; and critics say it shows that genetically modified organisms cannot be contained once released. Tina D'Hertefeldt from Lund University led the team of scientists that scoured the small field, which had hosted the GM trial 10 years ago, looking for &quot;volunteers&quot; - plants that have sprung up spontaneously from seed in the soil. &quot;We were surprised, very surprised,&quot; she told BBC News. &quot;We knew that volunteers had been d...</description>
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            <title>Uk's first hybrid embryos created</title>
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            <description>Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal. The embryos survived for up to three days and are part of medical research into a range of illnesses. It comes a month before MPs are to debate the future of such research. The Catholic Church describes it as &quot;monstrous&quot;. But medical bodies and patient groups say such research is vital for our understanding of disease. They argue that the work could pave the way for new treatments for conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Egg shortages Under the microscope the round bundles of cells look like any other three-day-old embryos. In fact they are hybrids - part-human, part-animal.  We are dealing with a clump of cells which would never go on to devel...</description>
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            <description>More and more people are trying to offset their carbon footprint. Individuals and companies alike are using a range of offsetting schemes to try to cancel out the greenhouse gases they emit. But questions have been raised about how effectively these schemes work. If someone clicks on a mouse and pays a small price, will their carbon emissions really be cancelled out somewhere else in the world? And is there a case for this industry to be more regulated?

For One Planet, Becky Milligan has travelled to Tamil Nadu in South India to talk to local farmers working in an international carbon offsetting programme. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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            <description>Privatisation of water resources in Africa has been a central policy by the World Bank and governments in Africa for more than two decades. But, in 2005 an ambitious plan to privatize water for the Tanzanian city of Dar-es-Salaam ended in recrimination and legal proceedings. Earlier this year, the government of Tanzania won around seven million dollars from the British water company, City Water Services, which was contracted to carry out the project. 

Yet other governments in Africa still depend on the private sector to deliver clean water to their people. So why did the Dar-es-Salaam plan go so wrong? Daniel Dickinson reports from Tanzania. (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)</description>
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