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Biology for Secondary Schools

(a) Helps to understand and care that are useful when carrying
for the environment properly. It out scientific investigations.
helps to learn about the plants, Such skills include measuring,
animals, and micro-organisms observing, analysing, and
that surround us and how they drawing conclusion.
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affect us. (f) Helps to improve food
(b) Helps to identify and group living production. Scientists can use
things which makes it easier to biological skills to develop
learn more about them. higher-yielding and disease-
(c) Helps to appreciate nature and resistant varieties of plants
many fascinating things about and animals. These improved
different organisms and how their breeds of plants and animals
functions are learnt in Biology. are called hybrids. Figure 1.2
(d) Helps to understand our bodies. shows the indigenous and
(e) Helps to acquire research skills improved breeds of chicken.

Figure 1.2: Chicken (a) indigenous breed (b) improved breed

(g) Helps to improve the standard (i) Enables scientists to come up
of living in human, and care for with ways to prevent, treat, and
animals and plants. Skills from cure diseases. This has greatly
Biology can help to determine the improved the quality of people’s
causes, symptoms, and methods lives. For instance, the first cure
of transmission of infections and discovered for malaria was
diseases. quinine. It was extracted from
(h) Helps to answer important the bark of the Cinchona tree
questions, such as when and (or quinine tree). Quinine has
where life originate, how plants helped to reduce the number of
move, and how animals survive deaths from malaria, especially
without plants. in Africa.

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