Topic B6- Global challenges

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• Investigating Distribution and Abundance
• More on investigating distribution and abundance
• Using keys and factors affecting distribution
• Using transects
• Human impacts on ecosystem
• More human impacts on ecosystem
• Maintaining biodiversity
• Impacts of environmental change
• Food security
• Ways of increasing agricultural yields

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• Selective breeding
• Genetic engineering
• Health and disease
• How disease spreads
• Reducing and preventing the spread of disease
• Detecting plant disease and plant defences
• The human immune system
• Vaccines and medicines
• Investigating antimicrobials
• Comparing antimicrobials

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• Developing new medicines
• Monoclonal antibodies
• More on Monoclonal antibodies
• Non communicable diseases
• More on non communicable diseases
• Treating cardiovascular disease
• Stem cells in medicine
• Using genome research in medicine
• Revision question Topic B6

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