This package contains:

• Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, Fourth Edition

Features

Do your students complain that they can’t understand what they read in most biology textbooks?

• To encourage students to relate science to their everyday lives, each chapter weaves in a story based on a current issue or hot topic through which biological concepts, examples, and applications are presented and explained.
• The authors’ current classroom experiences allow them to test new teaching strategies everyday and incorporate the most successful of those strategies into their textbook.
• Analogies in the book’s narrative and art compare abstract science with familiar objects and experiences, allowing students to better grasp difficult biological concepts.  

 
Does your text create active participants in the learning process?

• Stop and Stretch questions are strategically placed within the text to help students pace themselves and think critically about material they have just read.
• The popular Savvy Reader boxes in every chapter feature a short excerpt drawn from a variety of current periodicals (newspapers, journals, magazines, and websites) that relate to an issue in the main narrative. Each excerpt is followed by critical thinking questions to help students interpret and evaluate scientific information and data found in everyday media.
• Visualize This questions within select figure legends encourage students to spend more time with figures to more fully understand its content.
• A Closer Look sections have been heavily revised, isolating particularly challenging content so instructors have  flexibility to assign or skip it.  “An Overview” section always appears before A Closer Look section, with the former offering the “big picture” of a concept and the latter “the details.”
• Roots to Remember, featured in all chapters, lists the root words in key biological terms and the origins and meanings of those roots.

Table of Contents

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. Is it Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Health? Nutrients and Membrane Transport
4. Fat: How Much is Right for You? Enzymes, Metabolism, and Cellular Respiration
5. Life in the Greenhouse—Photosynthesis and Global Warming
II. Genetics
6. Cancer—DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis
7. Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics
8. DNA Detective—Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Fingerprinting
9. Genetically Modified Organisms—Gene Expression, Mutation, and Cloning        
III. Evolution
10. Where Did We Come From? The Evidence for Evolution
11. An Evolving Enemy—Natural Selection
12. Who am I? Species and Race
13. Prospecting for Biological Gold—Biodiversity and Classification
IV. Ecology
14. Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology
15. Conserving Biodiversity—Community and Ecosystem Ecology
16. Where Do You Live? Climate and Biomes
V. Animal Structure and Function
17. Organ Donation—Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems
18. Clearing the Air—Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Urinary Systems
19. Vaccinations: Protection and Prevention or Peril? Immune System, Bacteria, Viruses, and Other Pathogens
20. Sex Differences and Athleticism—Endocrine, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems
21. Is There Something in the Water? Reproductive and Developmental Biology
22. Attention Deficit Disorder—Brain Structure and Function
VI. Plant Biology
23. Feeding the World—Plant Structure and Growth
24. Growing a Green Thumb—Plant Physiology