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[dandoon96]

I really would like to do an EE on Biology.

I'm a very science oriented type of person. It is one of my HL subjects, and wanting to also continue a career in medicine, i think this is a great opportunity to show independent research and full dedication.

However, the biology teacher in my school discoarages an EE on this subject!


I read through, and found that Biology was the least scoring subject by atleast one Grade.

Anyone did an EE on Biology? and have any information they would like to share?

I was thinking of doing an experiment on something medical human related like BMI, or obesity, or diabeties or that sort.  basically expanding indepth analysis on the human physiology chapter which we didn't get onto yet.
NO WAY NEAR PLANTS. too boring


Any advice would be hugely appreciated especially past experience to do with EE on biology or experimental sciences.


I really want to do Biology It's not the easy option, i know.. But what if i work hard? Is an'' A ''really hard to achieve?

[Taj Pereira]

An alumni from my school did hers on Biology and investigated the effect different substances have on blood. Yes, she extracted her own blood etc and centrifuged it etc... Long story short, she got an A. However, I live in the philippines where this stuff is accessible; you may not have such accessibility.

Our biology teacher does not discourage it. I don't think you could think of a topic like you would for a bio IA. You need to have a genuinely inquisitive research question, which requires a lot of investigation (raw data) and interpretation. I don't think you could merely correlate BMI with obesity / diabetes. It's hard to think of a topic for Human Physiology for (an ee) because IB discourages any testing that can harm animals (us).

A friend of mine correlated all aspects of plant growth (height, number of leaves, size of leaves, stem length) to the a specific type of plant's CO2 intake. The biology teacher predicted him in the B/C range. haha.

To sum it up, the hardest part for a BIO ee would be your question .

Edited by Taj Pereira, Feb 06, 2012 - 13:51.

[dandoon96]

How did she test the effect on blood?

Colour changes?

What type of substances ?


Ahhh. Tough decision to call.