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Biology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

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Get this book if you need to review Bio or you are taking an intro to Bio class or an A&P class for review. THis is one of the best of the Dummy Science series and I wish the A&P Dummy book was more detailed. If you have to help your teen with a high school Bio class and you need to review the Krebs cycle...this is your book!

Great purchase. Would not have made it through my online Bio class without it!!!

I wholeheartedly recommend the Biology for Dummies book to everyday people or prospective students in the subject matter. It provides a good review of biology down to the cells and the beginning of life continuing to the inner workings of the human body. I admit that I have not completed the book yet. It can be complex such as the Krebs cycle but keeps me interested enough to want to know more. My boyfriend, a self-proclaimed geek, is facinated with the details on life. We both enjoy learning about it through this book.

The Biology for dummies helped significantly during my year of college General Bio for PreMed. Although it does not replace the text book it helps to understand the text book. Lets face it, text books are hard to read. This book helped create a foundation that I could later easily expand on with the text book. It was also much more fun to read. I would read the section in this book first to get an idea on the subject than after I would read the section from the text book. This covered everything in my bio class. This is a must have for any college student in General Biology. It is also great for reviewing before finals!

Great book. It is very easy to read and makes learning fun. I truly love the Dummies books. I am not from the USA, so for me it is more for learning biology in English. It sounds strange, but things like Biology and Chemistry have words and expressions that are not used on your everyday and that is a great way to learn them.

While my shelves groan ever more threateningly as I pack on more science and math texts, I increasingly find that a quick look through a "For Dummies" title is a great way to check myself as I prepare to teach science concepts to 12-year-olds. This particular volume does a nice job of laying out the basics of biology. It has helped reduce the highly complex concepts of the life sciences into a framework of idea of appropriate complexity for the age group I teach and to be able to explain and understand how the biology of the 6th grade curriculum fits within the continuum of biological knowledge that my students will require as they proceed to high school and college.

Dr. Kratz eschews much of the cutesy/obnoxious "infotainment" that annoys the heck out of me in "For Dummies" books, and while she doesn't match the level of detail you'll find in your AP or college biology text, this is precisely the text to reach for when you find that the information in your assigned reading is going in your eyes and back out your ears faster than you can say Krebs cycle.

I love the book very new, no pages missing or torn. like it thank you very much...20+ stars for you

After doing some research on what book I wanted from the several I browsed and checking user reviews I settled on this book. I don't mind the name but I do mind that the book serve the purpose I buy it for and this book serves that purpose to the T. It is very enjoyable to read and study. As far as I have read it (and I don't have much time to read) I have enjoyed every chapter of it and expect to continue enjoying it. I was sure glad I got it from Amazon. The price was right and the contents are what I wanted. The reviews helped a lot especially when they were of people who have bought the book.

Happy studying!

So I bought this book along with Barron's AP Biology book to review for the AP Exam since I had forgotten a lot of information I learned in regular Biology. I managed to pull of a 5 and an A in the class.

was the hardest of any of the dummies books to understand, maybe its just me, so to be fair i gave a 5 star, great condition, packaging, and very timely delivery

The Periodic Table 4-1 on Page 55 is incomplete- apparently a printing error which makes much of the discussion of elementary chemistry opaque. This book could be supplemented by a Dummies book on chemistry to make that section understandable. The following section on "Working Without A Periodic Table" needs an illustration.

The author teaches biology in a junior college so she knows how to teach. She does a very good job with the biology sections of the book.