Synopses & Reviews
Coleen Belk and Virginia Borden Maier have helped students demystify biology for nearly twenty years in the classroom and nearly ten years with their book, Biology: Science for Life with Physiology. In the new Fourth Edition, they continue to use stories and current issues, such as discussion of cancer to teach cell division, to connect biology to student’s lives. Learning Outcomes are new to this edition and integrated within the book to help professors guide students’ reading and to help students assess their understanding of biology.
A new Chapter 3, “Is It Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Health? Nutrients and Membrane Transport,” offers an engaging storyline and focused coverage on micro- and macro-nutrients, antioxidants, passive and active transport, and exocytosis and endocytosis.
This package contains:
- Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, Fourth Edition
Synopsis
0321930010 / 9780321930019 Biology: Science for Life with Physiology & Modified MasteringBiology with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Biology: Science for Life with Physiology Package
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About the Author
- Learning Outcomes are offered at the beginning and end of each chapter and are tied to MasteringBiology® assessment activities.
- A Closer Look sections in several chapters have been streamlined so that they more precisely focus on only the most advanced content.
- Savvy Reader boxes in selected chapters have been replaced with more relevant and timely media excerpts. The following are new Savvy Readers:
- “Ionized Water” (Chapter 2)
- “The Acai Bandwagon” (Chapter 3)
- “Hoodia for Weight Loss” (Chapter 4)
- “Refugees from Global Warming” (Chapter 5)
- “What Happens When A Species Recovers” (gray wolf’s endangered species status) (Chapter 15)
- “Denying AIDS” (South Africa’s stance on treatment of AIDS) (Chapter 19)
Storylines have been replaced or refreshed.The following are new storylines: - Nutritional supplements (Chapter 3)
- Surveys on whether humans evolved from earlier species (Chapter 10)
- Poet Elizabeth Alexander and genetic analysis (Chapter 12)
- The risks and benefits of vaccinations (Chapter 19)
Content has been streamlined and updated for currency throughout, for example: - New Chapter 3 focuses solely on nutrients and membrane transport.
- Chapter 4 now covers enzymes and metabolism, cellular respiration, and body fat and health.
- Chapter 5 now covers the greenhouse effect, the flow of carbon, photosynthesis, and global warming.
- Chapter 7 now includes coverage of dihybrid crosses.
Phylogenetic trees throughout the book have been redrawn for horizontal instead of vertical orientation. Terrestrial Biomes Visual Table in Chapter 16 highlights and summarizes the main geographical areas as defined by vegetation and climate. NEW Author created MasteringBiology content include Roots to Remember and video based activities. The Roots to Remember activities help students learn key vocabulary. The new video based activities provide assessable and engaging content.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