"Biology" is an authoritative majors textbook with evolution as a unifying theme. In revising the text, McGraw-Hill has consulted extensively with previous users, noted experts and professors in the field. It is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity. The new 8th edition will feature the latest in cutting edge content reflective of the rapid advances in Biology and will also offer a dynamic, realistic, accurate new visual program.
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Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the National Research Council. George B. Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis and a professor of genetics at the university's School of Medicine. He is a prolific author of life science texts and curriculum products in a variety of media. New to his list of works are the Explorations of Human Biology CD-ROM and the textbook Human Biology, both offered by Wm. C. Brown Publishers. Johnson is acknowledged as an authority on population genetics and evolution variability, and he has published more than 50 research papers dealing with these and related topics. Visitors to the St. Louis Zoo can appreciate Johnson's work in the Living World, the educational center of which he is the founding director.
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Mader's "Biology" makes every thing simple with its easy-to-understand language and figures. Great EM shots, summarized tables, and applied examples are a few of the several features of the book. Also, summaries at the end of each section and chapter make it easy to reveiw what you have read in a short time. In addition, I have to note that the book is very simple. i.e. College students may need more detailes, although this book is very useful to them!
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Excellent resource for college/pre-college students,
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Brilliant photography, logical arrangement of topics, outstanding illustrations, and well-written text combine to make this text an outstanding tool in the classroom, or as a resource. Features include: main ideas emphasized in boxes within text; challenging content written for easy comprehension; chapters introduced with clear objectives and concluded with detailed summary; information presented in logical flow; chapter assessment by essay, multiple-choice, and critical-thinking questions; detailed index and glossary.
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This book is vary basic, definitely for people who have no background in biology. I'm not sure what level she was writing for, because especially in the beginning it was like she was writing for little kids. Also, her description of meiosis was really confusing.
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From bacteria to bats, toadstools to trees, whippoorwills to whales-the diversity of the living world boggles the mind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
will complement your learning, cyclic electron pathway, eudicot stem, becoming daughter chromosomes, eudicot root, zygospore fungi, sac body plan, multiregional continuity hypothesis, outer capsid composed, polar spindle fibers, unattached earlobes, dorsal tubular nerve cord, labeling exercises, discontinuous feeders, seedless vascular plants, clam abundance, disperse offspring, incomplete digestive tract, mature male gametophyte, kinetochore spindle fibers, primary tissue layer, practice quizzes, remaining phyla, xylem transports water, hydrogen ions flow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Comparative Animal Biology, The Online Learning Center, Thinking Scientifically, Understanding the Terms, Genetic Basis of Life, South America, Practice Problems, Health Focus, Science Focus, North America, Ecology Focus, Charles Darwin, Nobel Prize, New World, New York, Connecting the Concept, Southern Hemisphere, Human Genome Project, Old World, Department of Agriculture, Indian Ocean, Northern Hemisphere, Additional Genetics Problems, Comparison of Meiosis New!
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From bacteria to bats, toadstools to trees, whippoorwills to whales-the diversity of the living world boggles the mind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
will complement your learning, cyclic electron pathway, eudicot stem, becoming daughter chromosomes, eudicot root, zygospore fungi, sac body plan, multiregional continuity hypothesis, outer capsid composed, polar spindle fibers, unattached earlobes, dorsal tubular nerve cord, labeling exercises, discontinuous feeders, seedless vascular plants, clam abundance, disperse offspring, incomplete digestive tract, mature male gametophyte, kinetochore spindle fibers, primary tissue layer, practice quizzes, remaining phyla, xylem transports water, hydrogen ions flow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Comparative Animal Biology, The Online Learning Center, Thinking Scientifically, Understanding the Terms, Genetic Basis of Life, South America, Practice Problems, Health Focus, Science Focus, North America, Ecology Focus, Charles Darwin, Nobel Prize, New World, New York, Connecting the Concept, Southern Hemisphere, Human Genome Project, Old World, Department of Agriculture, Indian Ocean, Northern Hemisphere, Additional Genetics Problems, Comparison of Meiosis New!
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