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Jonathan Weyers, Rob Reed, Allan Jones

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If you are a student of biology then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. It clearly explains the laboratory and field skills that you will draw on time and again for the practical aspects of your studies, and also gives you a solid grounding in those wider transferable skills which are increasingly necessary to achieve a higher level of academic success.

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Publisher
Pearson
Year
2016
ISBN
9781292094366
Edition
6
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences
544 
Index
transmissometers 
in 
aquatic 
environ-
ments 
347
transmittance, 
dened 
447
transparent 
specimens, 
procedures 
in 
light 
microscopy 
273–4
triangle, 
formulae 
for 
498
Tricaine 
(MS-222) 
226
TRICINE 
(free 
acid), 
Pk
a
value 
168
TRIS, 
pK
a
value 
168
true 
census 
of 
vegetation 
types 
337
true 
swimming 
motility 
in 
identifying 
microbes 
248
trypan 
blue
in 
microbe 
isolation 
233
in 
protoplast 
cultures 
304
Tukey, 
J.W. 
473
turbidimeters 
in 
aquatic 
environ-
ments 
347
turgor 
pressure 
160–1
tutorials 
27–8
two-dimensional 
electrophoresis 
465
two-dimensional 
shapes 
498
two-stage 
sampling 
199
Udden–Wentworth 
particle 
size 
scale 
359
UK 
Quality 
Assurance 
Agency 
for 
Higher 
Education
employability 
5
skill 
categories 
4
ultisols 
355
ultracentrifuges 
443
ultraviolet 
irradiation 
in 
microbe 
isola-
tion 
232
ultraviolet 
microscopy 
262
Uniform 
Resource 
Locator 
(URL) 
68
changing 
76
unimodal 
dispersions 
510
units, 
specifying 
in 
numerical 
prob-
lems 
495
upper 
extreme 
506
in 
Excel 
512
upper 
quartile
calculation 
of 
506
in 
Excel 
512
uranyl 
acetate 
stain 
280
urgent 
tasks 
11
USDA-NRCS 
354, 
355
utilitarianism 
129
UV/visible 
spectrophotometer 
449–50
components 
449
using 
451
UV/visible 
spectrophotometry 
447–50
colorimeter 
448, 
450
light 
absorption 
in 
447
quantitative 
spectrophotometric 
analysis 
450
UV/visible 
spectrophotometer 
449–50
components 
449
validation, 
dened 
320
values 
128
Vancouver 
system 
of 
citations 
56
variables
control 
of 
in 
scientic 
method 
203
dened 
173
measurement 
of 
173
variance 
508–9
ANOVA 
520
calculation 
of 
506
in 
Excel 
512
VARK 
system 
23, 
25
vegetation, 
major 
types 
(UK) 
337
ventimeter 
368
Venus, 
J.C. 
314
Vernier 
calipers 
151, 
291, 
359
vertical 
(static) 
life 
tables 
in 
ecology 
339
vertical-tube 
rotors 
in 
centrifugation 
444
vertisols 
355
vials 
142
virales 
in 
taxonomy 
of 
organisms 
235
virtual 
dissection 
257–8
virtue 
theory 
129–30
virulent 
phages 
288
viruses 
238
vision, 
wavelength 
range 
372
volume 
180
volumetric 
scale, 
reading 
139
vortex 
mixers 
150
Wakeham-Dawson, 
A. 
236
Walker, 
I. 
425
Warburg–Christian 
method 
of 
assay 
388
Wardlaw, 
A.C. 
505, 
515, 
517
water
ionisation 
of 
163
transparency 
346–7
optical 
instruments 
347
Secchi 
disk 
346–7
water 
content 
soils 
and 
sediments 
357–8
water 
flow 
velocity 
347–8
water 
potential 
in 
solution 
chemistry 
160–1
weather, 
dened 
364
weather 
stations 
364–5
siting 
365
websites
citations 
in 
57, 
62
remembering 
76
Weibel's 
multipurpose 
test 
overlay 
281
weighting 
samples 
197
Wellcome 
Trust 
128
Westermeier, 
R. 
464
wet 
and 
dry 
bulb 
hygrometers 
367
wet 
mounting 
for 
light 
microscopy 
269
wet 
preservation 
of 
animals 
and 
plants 
227–8
Wetzel, 
R.G. 
426
Weyers, 
J.D.B. 
6, 
57, 
134
White, 
R. 
68
Whittaker, 
R.H. 
342
whole 
numbers, 
dened 
493
Wilcoxon's 
signed 
rank 
test 
522
Wilson, 
K. 
425
wind, 
measurement 
of 
367–8
Winkler 
method 
of 
determination 
dis-
solved 
oxygen 
352
Winkler 
(iodometric) 
methods 
for 
measuring 
oxygen 
content 
428–9
wire 
loop, 
flaming 
283
Woese, 
C. 
235
word 
processors 
78–82
creating 
tables 
in 
490
editing 
features 
79–80
equations 
81
fonts 
80
formatting 
79
graphics 
81
help 
for 
79
justication 
81
line 
spacing 
81
printing 
81–2
quick 
commands 
80
in 
scientic 
writing 
106
special 
characters 
81
spellchecks 
on 
79
table 
construction 
81
typefaces, 
size 
and 
appearance 
80
widows 
and 
orphans 
79
working 
with 
others 
see
teamwork
World 
Wide 
Web
addresses, 
dissecting 
74
evaluation 
of 
information 
75
search 
tools 
72, 
74
xenotransplantation 
129
Ziehl–Neelsen 
staining 
268
zoom, 
dened 
306
zygote, 
dened 
341
zygote 
in 
Mendelian 
genetics 
395
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