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LaunchPad for Hillis' Principles of Life (4-Term Online) by David M. Hillis; David Sadava; Richard W. Hill; Mary V. Price - Second Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

LaunchPad for Hillis' Principles of Life (4-Term Online)

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Also Available: Updated 3rd Edition

With its first edition, Principles of Life provided a textbook well aligned with the recommendations proposed in BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Ed...

Also Available: Updated 3rd Edition

With its first edition, Principles of Life provided a textbook well aligned with the recommendations proposed in BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists and Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education. Now Principles of Life returns in a thoroughly updated new edition that exemplifies the reform that is remaking the modern biology classroom.

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LaunchPad for Hillis' Principles of Life (4-Term Online) by David M. Hillis; David Sadava; Richard W. Hill; Mary V. Price - Second Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

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Also Available: Updated 3rd Edition

With its first edition, Principles of Life provided a textbook well aligned with the recommendations proposed in BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists and Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education. Now Principles of Life returns in a thoroughly updated new edition that exemplifies the reform that is remaking the modern biology classroom.

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New to This Edition

New co-author, Richard W. Hill, who takes over the books coverage of animal form and function (Part V)

Thorough Updating Throughout, bringing in recent research relevant to essential concepts in biology

New QR Codes in the Text, linking students to relevant online content via a QR scanner on a smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device

More Closely Matched to the Reform Movement in Biology Education, with emphasis on:

  • Essential Content

  • A Conceptual Approach

  • Quantitative Reasoning

  • The Process of Science

  • Active Learning

  • Higher-Order Thinking

  • Continual Assessment

  • Modeling and Simulation in Context

  • Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Social Relevance

Table of Contents

PART 1: CELLS

1. Introduction

2. The Chemistry and Energy of Life

3. Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes

4. Cells: The Working Units of Life

5. Cell Membranes and Signaling

6. Pathways that Harvest and Store Chemical Energy

 PART 2: GENETICS7. The Cell Cycle and Cell Division

8. Inheritance, Genes, and Chromosomes

9. DNA and Its Role in Heredity

10. From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression

11. Regulation of Gene Expression

12. Genomes

13. Biotechnology

14. Genes, Development, and Evolution

 PART 3: EVOLUTION15. Processes of Evolution

16. Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies

17. Speciation

18. The History of Life on Earth

 PART 4: DIVERSITY19. Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses

20. The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes

21. The Evolution of Plants

22. The Evolution and Diversity of Fungi

23. Animal Origins and Diversity

 PART 5: PLANT FORM AND FUNCTION24. The Plant Body

25. Plant Nutrition and Transport

26. Plant Growth and Development

27. Reproduction of Flowering Plants

28. Plants in the Environment

 PART 6: ANIMAL FORM AND FUNCTION29. Fundamentals of Animal Function

30. Nutrition and Digestion

31. Breathing

32. Circulation

33. Muscle and Movement

34. Neurons, Sense Organs, and Nervous Systems

35. Nervous and Endocrine Control

36. Water and Salts: Excretion

37. Animal Reproduction

38. Animal Development

39. Immunology: Animal Defense Systems

40. Animal Behavior

 PART 7: ECOLOGY41. The Distribution of Earths Ecological Systems

42. Populations

43. Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Interactions within and among Species

44. Ecological Communities

45. The Global Ecosystem

David M. Hillis

David M. Hillis is the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also has directed the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Biodiversity Center, and the School of Biological Sciences. Dr. Hillis has taught courses in introductory biology, genetics, evolution, systematics, and biodiversity. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, and has served as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution and of the Society of Systematic Biologists. He served on the National Research Council committee that wrote the report BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Biology Education for Research Biologists, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Academies Scientific Teaching Alliance.

David E. Sadava

David E. Sadava is the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at the Keck Science Center of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps, three of The Claremont Colleges. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center. Twice winner of the Huntoon Award for superior teaching, Dr. Sadava has taught courses on introductory biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, plant biology, and cancer biology. In addition to Life: The Science of Biology, he is the author or coauthor of books on cell biology and on plants, genes, and crop biotechnology. His research has resulted in many papers coauthored with his students, on topics ranging from plant biochemistry to pharmacology of narcotic analgesics to human genetic diseases. For the past 15 years, he has investigated multi-drug resistance in human small-cell lung carcinoma cells with a view to understanding and overcoming this clinical challenge. At the City of Hope, his current work focuses on new anti-cancer agents from plants.

Richard W. Hill

Richard W. Hill is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University and a frequent Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is the senior author of the leading textbook on animal physiology. Among the awards he has received are the Outstanding Faculty Award, Meritorious Faculty Award, and election as Fellow of the AAAS. His research interests include: temperature regulation and energetics in birds and mammals, especially neonates; and environmental physiology of marine tertiary sulfonium and quaternary ammonium compounds.

Mary V. Price

Mary V. Price is Professor of Biology, Emerita, at the University of California, Riverside, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. In "retirement" she continues to teach, investigate, and publish. Dr. Price has taught, mentored, and published with students at all levels, and particularly enjoys leading field classes in the arid regions of North America and Australia, and the tropical forests of Central America, Africa, and Madagascar. Her research focuses on understanding not only the ecology of North American deserts and mountains, but also on how science really works.

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David M. Hillis; David Sadava; Richard W. Hill; Mary V. Price | Second Edition | ©2014 | ISBN:9781464184673

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