(eBook) (PDF) Biology: Science for Life, 6th edition

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Overview

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

1. Can Science Cure the Common Cold?

UNIT 1: CHEMISTRY AND CELLS

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

UNIT 2: GENETICS

6. Cancer
7. Fertility
8. Does Testing Save Lives
9. Biology of Wrongful Convictions
10. Genetically Modified Organisms

UNIT 3: EVOLUTION

11. Where Did We Come From
12. An Evolving Enemy
13. Understanding Race
14. The Greatest Species on Earth?

UNIT 4: ECOLOGY

15. Is the Human Population Too Large?
16. Conserving Biodiversity
17. The Human Footprint

UNIT 5: ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

18. Organ Donation
19. Binge Drinking
20. Clearing the Air
21. Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril?
22. Human Sex Diffrences
23. Toxic Stress
24. Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain?

UNIT 6: PLANT BIOLOGY

25. Feeding the World
26. Growing a Green Thumb

APPENDICES

• Metric System Conversions
• Answers
• Credits