Biology Notes

Comprehensive and detailed notes taken on the BIO1004S Practicals and the theory behind them, written by a student who achieved an upper first for the course. The answers to the prac questions are included. This guide is a must if you want to maximise efficiency and do well effortlessly.

Provides detailed notes about the evolution section of the developmental and evolutionary biology course offered at UCT. The document summarises the Historical background behind evolution, the development of Darwin’s ideas about evolution the different lines of evidence supporting evolution, macro and microevolution, genetic drift and speciation, as well as modern uses for natural selection.

These notes summarise everything you need to know for the primates section of the second year evolutionary and developmental biology course offered at UCT. It summarises the different orders and suborders and distinguishing features of each order of primates, and lists the most important fossils and developments in bipedalism and skin colour variation.

Detailed, in depth summary notes for first year, second semester introductory life sciences (BIOL1000) at Wits University. The notes include explanations and definitions, along with relevant diagrams to make learning and understanding a lot easier.

This document contains all the questions from the old exam papers (2016 - 2018) for BLG1502, as well as their answers. Answers were taken from the prescribed textbook and additional information was researched and added where applicable. Each question also has a mark allocation to give you an idea of how you can earn marks.

The document contains a SUMMARY of learning units 7 to 16 of BLG1501 offered by the University of South Africa. The summaries were done to cover all learning outcomes of these learning units. I only started the summary at learning unit 7 since information of the first 6 learning units is mostly background knowledge. These summaries also include diagrams and images to support the theory.

I have combined all the questions in old BLG1501 exam papers into one document. Each question is answered from the textbook (and further research where necessary) to ensure accuracy. This can be used to give you an idea of the kind of questions that you will be asked, as well as the kind of answers that are expected of you. I have found that many of the questions from previous exam papers are repeated, so going through old exam papers has proven to be very valuable for exam preparation.

BLG1502 Exam preparation ... Using these notes and reading through the Biology textbook allowed me to score a distinction for BLG1502. Good luck with your studies. :)