Biology: Science for Life Plus MasteringBiology with eText -- Access Card Package (4e)

Coleen Belk and Virginia Borden Maier have helped students demystify biology for nearly twenty years in the classroom and nearly ten years with their text, Biology: Science for Life. 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 text and MasteringBiology 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.

 

For instructors who cover Animal Structure and Function and Plant Biology, an alternate edition of this book, Biology: Science for Life with Physiology, is also available.

 

This package contains:

 

• Biology: Science for Life, Fourth Edition
• Student Access Code Card for MasteringBiology

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

 

 

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Colleen Belk and Virginia Borden Maier have been colleagues and collaborators for more than thirteen years. Both authors have adopted teaching styles at their respective universities, the University of Minnesota Duluth and St. John Fisher College, that capitalize on students’ natural curiosity about high-interest topics such as dieting, global warming, and organ donation to effectively teach fundamental course topics such as cell biology, photosynthesis, and physiology. Their classroom experience has informed every chapter to help students understand biological principles, develop critical thinking skills, apply biology to their own lives, and make the introductory course more enjoyable from both sides of the desk.
 
In addition to Biology: Science for Life, Colleen and Virginia are co-authors of Biology: Science for Life Laboratory Manual.