READY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION:
PEDAGOGICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY, TECHNOLOGICALLY, QUANTIFIABLY
NEW AND ENHANCED PEDAGOGY
New! Uncluttered design helps students focus on important concepts with a contemporary graphic style and color palette.
Chapter-opening stories engage student interest and highlight an important concept in the chapter. New to this edition, each story now concludes with a question that carries through the chapter and is answered at the end of the chapter
Section-ending Recaps are phrased in the form of learning objectives. Each offers a brief summary with 2-3 questions so students can check their mastery of the material they have just read.
Balloon captions in the figures, a signature innovation of this textbook, provide clear explanations that guide students step by step through experiments and biological processes.
Updated! Investigating Life and Research Tools figures give students a realistic sense of how science is done. Original citations are included. Links to original citations, further discussions, and related research for each experiment are available in BioPortal.
New! Working with Data exercises, now in the textbook as well as in BioPortal, ask students to answer questions based on data from many of the actual experiments described in the book. References to the original papers for “Working with Data” exercises and “Investigating Life” encourage students to access the primary literature.
New! Chapter ending self quizzes now contain multiple levels of questions based on Bloom’s taxonomy (Remembering, Understanding & Applying, Analyzing & Evaluating). A number of questions are accompanied by illustrations or data tables. Answers to all these questions are in the book.
New! Life Statistics Primer, now available in the textbook as well as in the e-Book, and BioPortal, introduces some of the basic statistical techniques used in biological research, including common techniques and methods of analyzing data (such as those used in some of the Working with Data exercises).
NEW SCIENCE
The Tenth Edition is meticulously updated throughout, incorporating the latest research that will help students understand basic concepts. For highlights, see
Table of Contents.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Enhanced! BioPortal for Life, Tenth Edition, featuring:
• Built-In Preloaded Course Modules—ready to use, each chapter module includes the relevant e-Book sections, key media resources, and pre-built assessments. These modules can be assigned as-is, or easily customized to fit your course.
• LearningCurve—With powerful adaptive quizzing, and a game-like format, LearningCurve gives you a quickly implemented, highly effective new way to get students more deeply involved in the material.
• Online Lecture Notebook—Now, all the artwork and tables from the textbook are available chapter by chapter as downloadable PDF files.
New! Instant Access codes (Quick Response or OR Codes) and Direct Web addresses integrated into the text let students link to dynamic resources at the right moment, via their smartphones, tablets, or any Web browser. All student resources have been re-built to be fully mobile-device compatible for more efficient studying.
Animated Tutorials present complex topics in a clear, easy-to-follow format that combines a detailed animation with an introduction, conclusion, and (in BioPortal) a quiz. Animations are available in multiple formats, and the easy-to-use interface offers continuous play and step-through options, optional audio narration, and a full text transcript.
Interactive Chapter Summaries combine a review of important concepts with links to key figures from the chapter, all relevant animated tutorials, and activities, for a comprehensive chapter review.
Activities help students learn important facts and concepts through labeling steps in processes, identifying parts of structures, building diagrams, and identifying different types of organisms.
New! Life Flashcards App (iPhone and iPad) makes it easy for students to study important biological terminology wherever they are. Flashcards are organized by chapter, and can be viewed in browse mode or quiz mode. The app also provides a full glossary with audio pronunciations for every term.
NEW AND ENHANCED WAYS TO QUANTIFY YOUR STUDENTS PROGRESS
The entire Test Bank, all of the Diagnostic Quizzes, and the extensive new set of LearningCurve questions have been revised and reviewed for both accuracy and effectiveness. All questions are referenced to specific textbook headings and categorized according to Bloom’s taxonomy. This allows instructors to easily build assignments with the desired mix of content coverage and question types (factual, conceptual, analyzing/applying, etc.).