Biology GCSE
Data handling skills
What Data handling skills means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Data handling skills
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Reference: AQA
Identifying the axes, labels, units and keys of a chart, graph or table before reading any values, and extracting only the information asked for.
Topics that use Data handling skills
- Fossils (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Change over geological time
- Common ancestry
- Comparing fossil and living structures
- Conditions for decay
- Decay and preservation
- Evidence and bias
- Evidence for evolution
- Geological processes
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