The Raven & Johnson's Biology author team is committed to continually improving the text, keeping the student and learning foremost. The integrated pedagogical features expand the students' learning process and enhance their learning experience. This latest edition of the text maintains the clear, accessible, and engaging writing style of past editions with the solid framework of pedagogy that highlights an emphasis on evolution and scientific inquiry that have made this a leading textbook for students majoring in biology. This emphasis on the organizing power of evolution is combined with an integration of the importance of cellular, molecular biology and genomics to offer our readers a text that is student friendly and current. Additionally, with McGraw Hill Connect, powerful digital tools augment instruction by helping students think more critically, develop quantitative and graphing skills and apply their knowledge in a laboratory setting. Connect Virtual Labs can be implemented in a hybrid or fully online setting to help students prepare for the wet lab and strengthening their lab experience.
By:
Peter Raven,
George Johnson,
Kenneth Mason,
Jonathan Losos,
Tod Duncan
Imprint: McGraw-Hill Education
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 13th edition
Dimensions:
Height: 274mm,
Width: 231mm,
Spine: 48mm
Weight: 2.722kg
ISBN: 9781265128845
ISBN 10: 1265128847
Pages: 1472
Publication Date: 31 March 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I The Molecular Basis of Life 1 The Science of Biology 2 The Nature of Molecules and the Properties of Water 3 The Chemical Building Blocks of Life Part II Biology of the Cell 4 Cell Structure 5 Membranes 6 Energy and Metabolism 7 How Cells Harvest Energy 8 Photosynthesis 9 Cell Communication 10 How Cells Divide Part III Genetic and Molecular Biology 11 Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis 12 Patterns of Inheritance 13The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance, and Human Genetics 14 DNA: The Genetic Material 15 Genes and How They Work 16 Control of Gene Expression 17 Biotechnology 18 Genomics 19 Cellular Mechanisms of Development Part IV Evolution 20 Genes Within Populations 21 The Evidence for Evolution 22 The Origin of Species 23 Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Comparative Biology 24 Genome Evolution Part V Diversity of Life on Earth 25 Origin and Diversity of Life 26 Viruses 27 Prokaryotes 28 Protists 29 Seedless Plants 30 Seed Plants 31 Fungi 32 Animal Diversity & the Evolution of Body Plans 33 Protostomes 34 Deuterostomes Part VI Plant Form and Function 35 Plant Form 36 Transport in Plants 37 Plant Nutrition and Soils 38 Plant Defense Responses 39 Plant Sensory Systems 40 Plant Reproduction Part VII Animal Form and Function 41 The Animal Body and Principles of Regulation 42 The Nervous System 43 Sensory Systems 44 The Endocrine System 45 The Musculoskeletal System 46 The Digestive System 47 The Respiratory System 48 The Circulatory System 49 Osmotic Regulation and the Urinary System 50 The Immune System 51 The Reproductive Systems 52 Animal Development Part VIII Ecology and Behavior 53 Behavioral Biology 54 Ecology of Individuals and Populations 55 Community Ecology 56 Dynamics of Ecosystems 57 The Biosphere and Human Impacts 58 Conservation Biology
Kenneth A. Mason received his undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Washington, worked at UC Berkeley, then pursued his PhD in Genetics at UC Davis. He has taught Gentics, Microbial Genetics, Microbiology, Advanced Molecular Genetics, Introductory Biology, and a Genetics Laboratory that he designed. Jonathan Losos is a Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Losos's research has focused on studying patterns of adaptive ratiation and evolutionary diversification in lizards. The recipient of several awards including hte prestigious Theodosius Dobzhansky and David Starr Jordan Prizes for outstanding young evolutionary biologists, Losos has published more than 100 scientific articles. Tod Duncan is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. He currently teaches firstsemester general biology and coordinates first and second semester general biology laboratories. Previously,he taught general microbiology, virology, the biology of cancer, medical microbiology, and cell biology. Abachelors degree in cell biology with an emphasis on plant molecular and cellular biology from the Universityof East Anglia in England led to doctoral studies in cell cycle control, and postdoctoral research on themolecular and biochemical mechanisms of DNA alkylation damage in vitro and in Drosophila melanogaster.Currently, he is interested in factors affecting retention and success of incoming first-year students in diversedemographics. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his two Great Danes, Eddie and Henry
