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Vade Mecum2: An Interactive Guide to Developmental Biology
(UPDATED VERSION 2.2)
Mary S. Tyler and Ronald N. Kozlowski, both of the University of Maine
2006
CD-ROM
A new edition of this title is now available.
About This Title
Includes the laboratory manual Developmental Biology: A Guide for Experimental Study, Third Edition, by Mary S. Tyler If you want students to understand the organisms discussed in lecture and come prepared for the laboratory, this is what you need!
NEW! Teacher’s and Student’s Resource
As a study aid for students and a resource for teachers for creating laboratory exams on embryonic chick material, a resource folder is included containing PowerPoint® slides of chick whole mounts and serial sections.
Over 140 interactive videos and 300 labeled photographs take the student through the life cycles of model organisms used in developmental biology laboratories. The easy-to-use videos provide students with the concepts, vocabulary, and motivation to enter the laboratory fully prepared. A chapter on zebrafish addresses how to raise the organism and the effects of various teratogens on embryonic development. The CD-ROM also includes chapters on: the slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum; planarian; sea urchin; the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster; chick; and amphibian.
Laboratory Manual
The Third Edition of Mary S. Tyler’s laboratory manual, Developmental Biology: A Guide for Experimental Study, designed for use with Vade Mecum, is included on this CD-ROM and can be printed from the CD-ROM for classroom use. The manual contains challenging experiments requiring minimal equipment that are suitable for both large and small classes and provides extensive background information and instructions for experiments.
iVade Mecum
This feature connects users through the Internet to interactive puzzles and lists of Web sites relevant to each chapter, and allows users to create personal bookmarks.
Glossary
Rollovers reveal the definitions of terms, embedded in the captions. In addition, a searchable glossary is contained within iVade Mecum.
Website
www.developmentalbiology.net augments the CD-ROM, allowing convenient access to developmental staging series for the model organisms, electronic puzzles, lab safety rules, recipes from the lab book, a glossary, highlights of videos from the Differential Expressions series and Fly Cycle, and some art in science.
Study Questions
For assessment of students’ understanding of the exercises (or for their self-examination), chapter quizzes that can be printed are included.
Laboratory Skills Guides
Vade Mecum2 includes several “techniques” chapters. One, on making the most of the microscope, includes a “virtual microscope” that teaches how to achieve Koehler illumination, dark-field illumination and how to use polarizing filters. Two other chapters illustrate, in a step-by-step manner, how to make microdissecting tools and how to do histological techniques for paraffin sections. Also included is a slide show on laboratory safety.
Literature Cited
A searchable PDF file contains the full bibliography of literature cited in Developmental Biology, Eighth Edition (over 5,000 references), most of which are linked to their PubMed citations.
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Vade Mecum2: An Interactive Guide to Developmental Biology (UPDATED VERSION 2.2) | 855038001044 | $34.95 | ||
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