Biological Science Plus MasteringBiology with eText -- Access Card Package:International Edition

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Features

How can we teach students to think like scientists instead of relying on memorization?

• A unique emphasis on the process of scientific discovery and experimental design teaches students how to think like scientists as they are learning fundamental biology concepts.
  • The Socratic approach of the narrative (and in selected figures and tables) challenges the student to consider the scientific method and think critically about the basis for what we now consider “facts.”
  • Experiment Boxes simulate and reinforce the hypothesis-testing process of scientific discovery, helping students to easily navigate through the logic of the question, hypothesis, and test.  Each experiment box includes a question that asks students to analyze the design of the experiment.
  • Experiment Questions and Exercises take the hypothesis-testing approach one step further by challenging students to fill in blank spaces with null hypotheses, predicted outcomes, and conclusions. New to this edition are questions that ask students to critically evaluate the researcher's experimental design.

How can we help novice learners become better prepared for future coursework and beyond?

• Intertwined, color-coded “learning threads” helps students first recognize essential information and then assess whether they truly understand it.
  • The Gold thread helps students pick out important ideas while reading and again when studying for exams.
    • Key Concepts and important factual information are highlighted within the prose while retaining the engaging, storytelling narrative.
    • Summary Tables pull information together into a compact format for easy review.
  • The Blue thread helps students test their understanding as they are reading the text.
    • “You should be able to …” activities appear in Check Your Understanding boxes and are also highlighted within the prose, inviting students to apply their knowledge to new situations.
    • Caption Questions and Exercises challenge students to critically examine information in figures and tables.
  • Gold and Blue threads are brought together in Check Your Understanding boxes and Chapter Summaries.
    • Check Your Understanding boxes present easy-to-use, bulleted lists of “If you understand…” learning objectives paired with “You should be able to…” integrative self-assessment activities.
    • Chapter Summaries include their own “You should be able to…” activities to prompt students to revisit the major themes of the chapter and synthesize the information.

New to this Edition

How can we support students as they make the transition from memorization to higher-order thinking?

• Selected discussions have been streamlined, with more concise language, bulleted lists that "chunk" information and ideas, and shorter paragraphs that retain Scott Freeman's friendly writing style.
• An increased number of Summary Tables pull information together into a compact format that is easy for students to review and synthesize.
• An increased number of Experiment Box questions and exercises encourage students to analyze aspects of experimental design.
• “You should be able to…” questions are more evenly distributed throughout chapters and along Bloom's Taxonomy scale, to build confidence in students and provide them with higher-order thinking questions that will help them prepare for exams.
• Suggested answers to all Blue thread questions are provided in the back of the book, for easy student access.
• Each chapter ends with a more succinct Summary of Key Concepts, which review important concepts in short, manageable bullet points.
• An expanded BioSkills appendix includes questions and exercises that help students learn and practice foundational skills. Additional self-paced practice questions can be found online at MasteringBiology. New to this edition are BioSkills appendices on using the metric system, common Latin and Greek word roots, techniques for isolating and visualizing cell components, cell and tissue culture, and model organisms.

How can we help students keep sight of “big picture” relationships among biological concepts?

• Four remarkable Big Picture concept maps help students synthesize information across the chapters on Energy, Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology.  These visual overviews are reinforced with Check Your Understanding exercises and twelve Interactive Concept Maps that can be assigned in MasteringBiology®.
• A new section in Chapter 1 introduces five characteristics shared by all living organisms: energy, cells, information processing, replication, and evolution. These five themes are revisited throughout the book. 

How can we encourage more student participation and accountability in class?

• Whenever possible, open-ended questions that appear in the book have been re-written as multiple choice questions that are available for assignments in MasteringBiology or for inclusion on tests.
• Ten Experimental Inquiry tutorials have been added to MasteringBiology to help students understand the experimental setup, the data, and the reasoning that led scientists from the data to their conclusions. Experiments range from Meselson-Stahl's DNA replication discovery, to the Grants' work on Galapagos finches, to Connell's study of competition among barnacles.
• Pre-class reading quizzes-one per chapter-can be assigned through MasteringBiology to help your students keep up with the reading before class so they're better prepared during lecture.

How can we make biology concepts more accessible and engaging to visual learners?

• Newly redesigned phylogenetic trees present information in a more reader-friendly, U-shaped, top-to-bottom format, the same way trees are most commonly depicted in the scientific literature. 
• An expanded number of figure caption questions and exercises focus on interpreting data sets and graphs.
• Selected figures and photos have been enlarged to increase the visual appeal of the figure and to make the details easier to see.
• Molecular icons have been simplified to give them more dimension and clarity without sacrificing accurate representation of size and mass.
• Arrows have replaced the “pointer hands” from previous editions to make figure annotations simpler and more precise.
• BioFlix™ are movie-quality, 3-D animations available on MasteringBiology. Five new BioFlix 3-D animations and tutorials have been developed for this edition, on mechanisms of evolution, homeostasis, gas exchange, population ecology, and the carbon cycle.

Table of Contents

1. Biology and the Tree of Life 

I. THE MOLECULES OF LIFE

2. Water and Carbon: The Chemical Basis of Life

3. Protein Structure and Function 

4. Nucleic Acids and the RNA World 

5. An Introduction to Carbohydrates 

6. Lipids, Membranes, and the First Cells 

II. CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

7. Inside the Cell 

8. Cell-Cell Interactions 

9. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation 

10. Photosynthesis 

11. The Cell Cycle 

III. GENE STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION

12. Meiosis 

13. Mendel and the Gene 

14. DNA and the Gene: Synthesis and Repair

15. How Genes Work 

16. Transcription, RNA Processing, and Translation 

17. Control of Gene Expression in Bacteria 

18. Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes 

19. Analyzing and Engineering Genes

20. Genomics 

IV. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

21. Principles of Development 

22. An Introduction to Animal Development 

23. An Introduction to Plant Development

V. EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES AND PATTERNS

24. Evolution by Natural Selection 

25. Evolutionary Processes

26. Speciation 

27. Phylogenies and the History of Life 

VI. THE DIVERSIFICATION OF LIFE

28. Bacteria and Archaea

29. Protists 

30. Green Algae and Land Plants

31. Fungi

32. An Introduction to Animals

33. Protostome Animals

34. Deuterostome Animals

35. Viruses

VII. HOW PLANTS WORK

36. Plant Form and Function 

37. Water and Sugar Transport in Plants 

38. Plant Nutrition 

39. Plant Sensory Systems, Signals, and Responses

40. Plant Reproduction 

VIII. HOW ANIMALS WORK

41. Animal Form and Function 

42. Water and Electrolyte Balance in Animals 

43. Animal Nutrition 

44. Gas Exchange and Circulation

45. Electrical Signals in Animals 

46. Animal Sensory Systems and Movement 

47. Chemical Signals in Animals 

48. Animal Reproduction 

49. The Immune System in Animals 

IX. ECOLOGY

50. An Introduction to Ecology 

51. Behavioral Ecology 

52. Population Ecology 

53. Community Ecology 

54. Ecosystems 

55. Biodiversity and Conservation 

Author

Scott Freeman

Scott Freeman received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington and was subsequently awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Evolution at Princeton University. His current research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning and he recently published two papers on his work: (1) how active learning and peer teaching techniques increase student learning and improve performance in introductory biology (Freeman, S., E. O'Connor, J.W. Parks, M. Cunningham, D. Hurley, D. Haak, C. Dirks, and M.P. Wenderoth. 2007. Prescribed active learning increases performance in introductory biology. CBE-Life Sciences Education 6: 132-139.); and (2) how the levels of exam questions vary among introductory biology courses, standardized post-graduate entrance exams, and professional school courses (Zheng, A.Y., J.K. Lawhorn, T. Lumley, and S. Freeman. 2007. Applications of Bloom's Taxonomy Debunks the “MCAT Myth.” Science  25 January 2008: 414-415).

Kim Quillin

Illustrator, Kim Quillin, combines expertise in biology and information design to create lucid visual representations of biological principles. She received her B.A. in Biology at Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley (as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow), and has taught undergraduate biology at both schools. Students and instructors alike have praised Kim's illustration programs for Biological Science, as well as Biology: A Guide to the Natural World, by David Krogh, and Biology: Science for Life, by Colleen Belk and Virginia Borden, for their success at the visual communication of biology. Kim is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Salisbury University.