King’s Biology

This is the official account of the Biology department at The King’s School, Chester.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Seals have short front flippers and un-rotatable rear flipper so cannot walk on land, they propel themselves forward and achieve locomotion by a method called galumphing

[King’s Biology @KSCBiology]

Weekend Bio trip is almost complete. Back to the lab to gather the data and then home.

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And the moths

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Sand dune succession for the L6th Biologists this morning. Skylarks, sunshine and cinnabar caterpillars a plenty. @kingschester

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Rocky shore ecology! Zonation, transects, quadrats and ice cream!

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A successful small mammal trapping! 5 voles and 8 mice! Great start to the Biology field course! #MarkReleaseRecapture

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Now Monty’s relaxing on the couch watching TV after a hard days work! 🐍🐍@KSCBiology

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Monty you’re supposed to be helping with this Removes marking! 🐍 Remote learning/marking biology style! @KSCBiology

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Virtual Zoo day! 🦎🦒🐘🦧🦏🐆🐅🦘

[Chester Zoo @chesterzoo]

😆 Wake up! Wake up! We’re all going to #TheZoo today!

🎥 Virtual Zoo Day Live 5 starts at 10am on our @Facebook & @YouTube pages.

👀 You’ll see hogs 🐷 chimpanzees 🐵 painted dogs 🐶 cassowaries 🦃 & pythons 🐍

⭐️ RT if you’ll be there!

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Bruce coming out of of his little under chair hiding spot for a healthy snack! Be like a dragon and eat your fruit and veg! 🦎 🥦 🍇

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Al fresco dining this lunchtime for Bruce the bearded Dragon - be like a Dragon and get some (garden) fresh air during remote learning screen breaks! @KSCBiology

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First day back and the new World of remote learning! Be like a gecko- if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! @KSCBiology 🦎

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Great work @LearnatCZ loving the live feeds!

[Chester Zoo Learning @LearnatCZ]

We can't wait for you to join us for our second virtual zoo day on @Facebook and @YouTube today from 10am!

If you'd like to follow along and continue the #learning, take a look at our free resources all designed to help support you #tozooathome

https://t.co/aI0CiGqN0J

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@kingschester No dog interference and kitchen top assisted but happy with 23! 👍 #Kingschallenge

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@KSCHistory Cool! 🦅

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Signs of spring! 🐝🌿🌷🌼 Removes learning about seed dispersal and germination get into your garden and find some germinating seeds!

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@ATJCagan @firefoxx66 @nextstrain A good and topical example of phylogenetics applied to the real world for our Lower 6th Biologist who are just learning about it! The image is really inspiring! The arrow is a phylogenetic tree! 🧬

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Bruce the bearded dragon, Speckle and Banana the leopard geckos settling into their home away from home! 🦎🦎 🐉

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A fantastic last young biologist enrichment for a while! DNA extraction and a farewell to Monty the python. Keep following us for animal updates! 🐍🦎🧬 Stay safe everyone!

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Young Biologist enrichment - rat dissection! Dissecting the small (but long) intestine! Well done Removes 👍