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Gwladys Yvonne McKeon

Gwladys Yvonne McKeon is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gwladys Yvonne McKeon rather than just read about it. In short: Gwladys Yvonne McKeon (23 August 1897 — 15 August 1979) was a Welsh-born Australian marine biologist. Though her paid employment in science was brief, she made contributions as a trained independent researcher through her life, culminating with her popular handbook, Life on the Australian Seashore (1966).

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Gwladys Yvonne McKeon (23 August 1897 — 15 August 1979) was a Welsh-born Australian marine biologist. Though her paid employment in science was brief, she made contributions as a trained independent researcher through her life, culminating with her popular handbook, Life on the Australian Seashore (1966).

Early life and education Gwladys Yvonne James was born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the daughter of a schoolmaster in Queensland. She was the youngest of her parents' seven children, born when the family was visiting in Wales. Gwladys lived in Wales until the family returned to Australia in 1899. She was educated at Albert State School in Maryborough, Maryborough Girls Grammar School, and University of Queensland, where she earned bachelor's (1918) and master's (1920) degrees in biology, focusing on parasitology.

Career Her first job after university was at the Tick Biology Station in West Burleigh, Queensland, where she collected data on the tick life cycle for livestock management applications. Within a few months she was hired as a microscopist on the Australian Hookworm Campaign. In the 1930s, she designed educational displays at the State Wheat Board in Toowoomba, where her husband was an office manager. While raising her children and out of paid employment, Gwladys McKeon wrote a handbook, Life on the Australian Seashore (1966). The book featured McKeon's own ink and watercolor illustrations, and was based on years of collecting invertebrates and plant life from her home at Point Vernon in Hervey Bay. Her methodical gathering helped to build research collections of specimens at, among institutions, the Queensland Herbarium.

Personal life Gwladys Y. James married farmer Cecil McKeon in 1923, at Maryborough. They had five children. Gwladys Yvonne McKeon died in 1979, right before her 82nd birthday.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Gwladys Yvonne McKeon

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Gwladys Yvonne McKeon claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gwladys Yvonne McKeon ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gwladys Yvonne McKeon

In research: Gwladys Yvonne McKeon appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gwladys Yvonne McKeon in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gwladys Yvonne McKeon is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1897 births, 1979 deaths, 20th-century Australian biologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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