by Benjamin Pierce
Fourth Edition ©2012
ISBN-10: 1-4292-3250-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-3250-0 Cloth Text, 745 pages See available formats »
Student Motivated Pedagogy: Introductory StoriesEach chapter opens with a brief introductory story intended to make genetics more relevant to the student and draw them into the material. Concepts BoxesSummarize the important take-home messages from the chapter for students. Each Concepts box contains a short statement that highlights and reviews the main point of the text just read.Concept Check QuestionsAllow students to quickly assess their understanding of the material just covered by answering either a multiple choice or open-ended questions.Connecting ConceptsSections allow students to pause and integrate new concepts with preceding material-to help students connect the dots.Superb Illustration ProgramAn attractive and instructive illustration program seamlessly merges art and text, to create figures that tell a story and stand on their own. Color is used to help students orient themselves as they study experiments and processes. Most include balloon captions that walk students step-by-step through a process or point out important features of a structure or experiment. In-text Worked ProblemsMany of the chapters include in-text worked problems, in which the solution to a problem is worked, in the body of the text, when the subject is first presented. The author walks students through each step of the problem and also references a similar problem at the end of the chapter that the student can try for practice and to see if they’ve mastered the content. There are additional worked problems at the end of each chapter. End-of-chapter ProblemsEvery chapter includes a variety of end-of chapter problems that are organized by section number for easy review and practice. The questions progress in level of difficulty and include: Comprehension, Application, and Challenge questions. The author has also included Data Analysis problems, which feature data sets from scientific papers, to give students experience working with real data. These data analysis problems are identified by a special icon.
Concept Check QuestionsAllow students to quickly assess their understanding of the material just covered by answering either a multiple choice or open-ended questions.
Connecting ConceptsSections allow students to pause and integrate new concepts with preceding material-to help students connect the dots.
Superb Illustration ProgramAn attractive and instructive illustration program seamlessly merges art and text, to create figures that tell a story and stand on their own. Color is used to help students orient themselves as they study experiments and processes. Most include balloon captions that walk students step-by-step through a process or point out important features of a structure or experiment.
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