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Hallmark features of this titleEach chapter weaves in a story based on a current issue or hot topic that presents and explains biological concepts, examples, and applications.Working with Data questions challenge students to analyze and apply their knowledge of biology to a graph or set of data.Sounds Right, But Is It? activities at the end of each chapter address common student misconceptions about biology concepts.Roots to Remember in chapter discussions help students learn the language of biology using word roots.Visualize This questions encourage students to look closely at figures to more fully understand their content.

Published by Pearson (September 15th 2020) – Copyright © 2019
ISBN-13: 9780135214084
Subject: Biology
Category: Biology for non-majors

Biology: Science for Life is available in the following versions:

Biology: Science for Life with Physiology contains Chapters 1-26
Biology: Science for Life contains Chapters 1-17

Can Science Cure the Common Cold?

UNIT 1: CHEMISTRY AND CELLS

Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience
Is It Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Performance and Health?
Body Weight and Health
Life in the Greenhouse

UNIT 2: GENETICS

Cancer
Fertility
Does Testing Save Lives
Biology of Wrongful Convictions
Genetically Modified Organisms

UNIT 3: EVOLUTION

Where Did We Come From
An Evolving Enemy
Understanding Race
The Greatest Species on Earth?

UNIT 4: ECOLOGY

Is the Human Population Too Large?
Conserving Biodiversity
The Human Footprint

UNIT 5: ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Organ Donation
Binge Drinking
Clearing the Air
Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril?
Human Sex Diffrences
Toxic Stress
Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain?

UNIT 6: PLANT BIOLOGY

Feeding the World
Growing a Green Thumb

APPENDICES

Metric System Conversions
Answers
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