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- Subject: Biology
- AS: AS 91603
- Level: 3
- Credits: 5
- External
Biology 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of the responses of plants and animals to their external environment
Key tips
- Attempt all questions, reading them carefully and make use of relevant resource material.
- When answering questions (resource-based questions especially), make sure your answers are specific rather than general. Refer to information given in the questions and justify your comments.
- The language for this subject is specific so you must learn the relevant terms and definitions. Refer to the glossary in your text book or provided by your teacher. Terms include: animal behaviour, plant response, migration, territory/home range, social hierarchies, plant hormones, photoperiod, photosynthesis, orientation, tropisms, nastic responses, taxes, kineses, homing, migration, timing, annual, daily, lunar, tidal, interspecific relationships: predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, competition, resources, intraspecific relationships: territoriality, cooperative interactions, reproductive behaviours, hierarchical behaviour, competition, resources adaptive significance.
- Avoid anthropomorphism – giving organisms human qualities. Don’t say 'the plants think that ...' because plants do not think.
