Biology
Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc (Verlag)
978-0-321-70692-8 (ISBN)
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Colleen Belk and Virginia Borden strive to make teaching and learning biology a better experience from both sides of the desk. The authors draw from their teaching experiences to create a text with a flowing narrative and innovative features that require students to become more active participants in their learning. Each chapter presents the material through a story that draws from real life examples, making the reading more engaging and accessible to today’s students. These stories strive to demystify topics found in biology.
The Third Edition of this book features a completely re-designed art program and uses the authors’ teaching experiences to create student-centered features such as the new Savvy Reader, Visualize This, and Stop and Stretch to motivate and encourage student learning. The new A Closer Look allows instructors the opportunity to expand on certain important biological topics.
For instructors who do not cover topics related to physiology, an alternate edition of this book, Biology: Science for Life, is also available.
This text now includes access to MasteringBiology®. All of the resources previously found on mybiology are now located within the Study Area of MasteringBiology.
Colleen Belk and Virginia Borden Maier have been colleagues and collaborators for more than thirteen years. Both authors have adopted teaching styles at their respective universities, the University of Minnesota Duluth and St. John Fisher College, that capitalize on students’ natural curiosity about high-interest topics such as dieting, global warming, and organ donation to effectively teach fundamental course topics such as cell biology, photosynthesis, and physiology. Their classroom experience has informed every chapter to help students understand biological principles, develop critical thinking skills, apply biology to their own lives, and make the introductory course more enjoyable from both sides of the desk. In addition to Biology: Science for Life, Colleen and Virginia are co-authors of Biology: Science for Life Laboratory Manual and Human Biology.
1. Can Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method
I. CHEMISTRY AND CELLS
2. Are We Alone in the Universe? Water, Biochemistry, and Cells
3. Diet. Cells and Metabolism
4. Life in the Greenhouse: Photosynthesis Cellular Respiration, and Global Warming
II. GENETICS
5. Cancer: DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis
6. Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics
7. DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Fingerprinting
8. Gene Expression, Mutation and Cloning: Genetically Modified Organisms
III. EVOLUTION
9. Genetically Modified Organisms: Gene Expression, Mutation, and Cloning
10. An Evolving Enemy: Natural Selection
11. Who Am I? Species and Races
12. Prospecting for Biological Gold: Biodiversity and Classification
IV. ECOLOGY
13. Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology
14. Conserving Biodiversity: Community and Ecosystem Ecology
15. Where Do You Live? Climate and Biomes
V. ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
16. Organ Donation: Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems
17. Clearing the Air: Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Excretory Systems
18. Will Mad Cow Disease Become an Epidemic? Immune System, Bacteria, Viruses, and Other Pathogens
19. Sex Differences and Athleticism: Endocrine, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems
20. Is There Something in the Water? Reproductive and Developmental Biology
21. Attention Deficit Disorder: Brain Structure and Function
VI. PLANT BIOLOGY
22. Feeding the World: Plant Structure and Growth
23. Growing a Green Thumb: Plant Physiology
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.6.2010 |
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| Verlagsort | San Francisco |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 276 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-321-70692-7 / 0321706927 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-321-70692-8 / 9780321706928 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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