Campbell Biology in Focus, Global Edition, 3rd edition

Lisa A. Urry Mills College, Oakland, California
Michael L. Cain Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Steven A. Wasserman University of California, San Diego
Peter V. Minorsky Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York

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Built unit-by-unit, Campbell Biology in Focus achieves a balance between breadth and depth of concepts to move students away from memorization. Streamlined content enables students to prioritize essential biology content, concepts, and scientific skills that are needed to develop conceptual understanding and an ability to apply their knowledge in future courses. Every unit takes an approach to streamlining the material to best fit the needs of instructors and students, based on reviews of over 1,000 syllabi from across the country, surveys, curriculum initiatives, reviews, discussions with hundreds of biology professors, and the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education report.

Maintaining the Campbell hallmark standards of accuracy, clarity, and pedagogical innovation, the 3rd Edition builds on this foundation to help students make connections across chapters, interpret real data, and synthesize their knowledge. The new edition integrates new, key scientific findings throughout and offers more than 450 videos and animations in Mastering Biology to help students actively learn, retain tough course concepts, and successfully engage with their studies and assessments.

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Figure Walkthroughs guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and questions that reinforce important points.
Visualising Figures help guide students to a deeper understanding of the ways in which figures represent biological structures, processes, and functions in one- to two-page visual spreads.
Visualising questions ask students to create visuals themselves and appear in every chapter.
Inquiry Figures highlight how researchers designed an experiment, interpreted their results, and drew conclusions.
Problem-Solving Exercises challenge students to apply scientific skills and interpret data in solving real-world problems. These exercises are designed to maximise student engagement through compelling case studies, provide practice with data analysis skills, and highlight the interrelationship and interdependence of topics across introductory biology.
Scientific Skills Exercises use real data to build key skills students need for biology, including data analysis, graphing, experimental design, and math skills and appear in every chapter of the text. Each Scientific Skills .
Interpret the Data questions throughout the text ask students to analyse a graph, figure, or table.
Make Connections Figures pull together content from different chapters and provide a visual representation of “big picture” relationships.
Make Connections Questions ask students to relate content in a chapter to material presented earlier in the course to help them see how the different areas of biology are connected, from molecules to organisms to ecosystems.

Build visual skills to increase visual literacy and understanding

· Figure Walkthroughs guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and questions that reinforce important points.

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· Early Alerts in Mastering Biology help instructors know when students may be struggling early in the course. This insight enables instructors to provide personalized feedback and support at the moment students need it so they can stay–and succeed–in the course.

· Figure Walkthroughs guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and questions that reinforce important points.

· Visualizing Figure Tutorials guide students in practicing visual skills and include coaching feedback.

· Visualizing the Data coaching activities encourage students to practice their data interpretation skills.

· Updated - GraphIt! Coaching activities help students read, interpret, and create graphs that explore real environmental issues using real data. All 10 activities explore current topics such as the carbon footprint of food, fresh water availability, and ocean acidification in an entirely new mobile experience with accessible design.

· Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place–even when offline. Pearson eText for Campbell Biology in Focus presents over 450 carefully chosen and edited videos and animations that bring biology to life. Resources include Get Ready for This Chapter questions, New Figure Walkthroughs , and HHMI Biointeractive videos and animations.

· Galapagos Evolution Video Activities, filmed on the Galapagos Islands by Peter and Rosemary Grant, bring to life the dynamic evolutionary processes that impact Darwin’s finches on Daphne Major Island. Six videos explore important concepts and data from the Grants’ field research, with assignable activities.

· LabBench pre-lab materials provide the perfect combination of technique, content, and skill development to help your students move toward inquiry and understanding. These take students step-by-step through the concepts and techniques necessary to understand and conduct biological investigations, and ask them to make predictions, justify conclusions, evaluate data, apply mathematical techniques, and analyze the results of their investigation. Each section ends with formative assessment questions that test student comprehension and implement answer-specific feedback for each question.

o LabBench topics are: Cellular Respiration, Biotechnology–Bacterial Transformation, Biotechnology–Restriction Enzyme Analysis of DNA, Energy Dynamics, Cell Division–Mitosis and Meiosis, Transpiration Fruit Fly Behavior, Enzymes, Diffusion and Osmosis, Photosynthesis, Artificial Selection, Hardy-Weinberg Modeling, Blast and Phylogeny

1 Introduction: Evolution and the Foundations of Biology
UNIT 1 Chemistry and Cells
2 The Chemical Context of Life
3 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
4 A Tour of the Cell
5 Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
6 An Introduction to Metabolism
7 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
8 Photosynthesis
9 The Cell Cycle
UNIT 2 Genetics
10 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
11 Mendel and the Gene Idea
12 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
13 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
14 Gene Expression: From Gene to Protein
15 Regulation of Gene Expression
16 Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer
17 Viruses
18 Genomes and Their Evolution
UNIT 3 Evolution
19 Descent with Modification
20 Phylogeny
21 The Evolution of Populations
22 The Origin of Species
23 Broad Patterns of Evolution
UNIT 4 The Evolutionary History of Life
24 Early Life and the Diversification of Prokaryotes
25 The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes
26 The Colonization of Land
27 The Rise of Animal Diversity
UNIT 5 Plant Form and Function
28 Vascular Plant Structure and Growth
29 Resource Acquisition, Nutrition, and Transport in Vascular Plants
30 Reproduction and Domestication of Flowering Plants
31 Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals
UNIT 6 Animal Form and Function
32 The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation
33 Animal Nutrition
34 Circulation and Gas Exchange
35 The Immune System
36 Reproduction and Development
37 Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
38 Nervous and Sensory Systems
39 Motor Mechanisms and Behavior
UNIT 7 Ecology
40 Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms
41 Ecological Communities
42 Ecosystems and Energy
43 Conservation Biology and Global Change

Lisa A. Urry (Units 1 and 2) is Gibbons Young Professor of Biology at Mills College. After earning a B.A. at Tufts University, she completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Lisa has conducted research on gene expression during embryonic and larval development in sea urchins. Deeply committed to promoting opportunities in science for women and underrepresented minorities, she has taught courses ranging from introductory and developmental biology to a nonmajors course called Evolution for Future Presidents.

Michael L. Cain (Chapter 1 and Units 3, 4, and 7) is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist who is now writing full-time. Michael earned an A.B. from Bowdoin College, an M.Sc. from Brown University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. As a faculty member at New Mexico State University, he taught introductory biology, ecology, evolution, botany, and conservation biology. Michael is the author of dozens of scientific papers on topics that include foraging behavior in insects and plants, long-distance seed dispersal, and speciation in crickets. He is also a coauthor of an ecology textbook.

Steven A. Wasserman (Unit 6) is Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He earned an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from MIT. Working on the fruit fly Drosophila, Steve has done research on developmental biology, reproduction, and immunity. Having taught genetics, development, and physiology to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, he now focuses on introductory biology, for which he has been honored with UCSD’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Peter V. Minorsky (Unit 5) is Professor of Biology at Mercy College in New York, where he teaches introductory biology, ecology, and botany. He received his A.B. from Vassar College and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Peter taught at Kenyon College, Union College, Western Connecticut State University, and Vassar College; he is also the science writer for the journal Plant Physiology. His research interests concern how plants sense environmental change. Peter received the 2008 Award for Teaching Excellence at Mercy College.

Rebecca B. Orr (Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules, eText Media Integration) is Professor of Biology at Collin College in Plano, Texas, where she teaches introductory biology. She earned her B.S. from Texas A&M University and her Ph.D. from University of Texas South-western Medical Center at Dallas. Rebecca has a passion for investigating strategies that result in more effective learning and retention, and she is a certified Team-Based Learning Collaborative Trainer Consultant. She enjoys focusing on the creation of learning opportunities that both engage and challenge students.

Neil A. Campbell (1946–2004) earned his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. His research focused on desert and coastal plants. Neil’s 30 years of teaching included introductory biology courses at Cornell University, Pomona College, and San Bernardino Valley College, where he received the college’s first Outstanding Professor Award. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside. Neil was the founding author of Campbell Biology, upon which this book is based.

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