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- About This Title
- New to This Edition
- Also Available: The Split Edition
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- NEW! BioPortal
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- Presentation Resources
- Course Management Support
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Life: The Science of Biology, Eighth Edition
David Sadava, The Claremont Colleges, H. Craig Heller, Stanford University, Gordon H. Orians, Emeritus, University of Washington, William K. Purves, Emeritus, Harvey Mudd College, and David Hillis, University of Texas
2008
1,252 pages, 1,286 illustrations
casebound
A new edition of this title is now available.
About This Title
Life has evolved from its original publication to this dramatically revitalized Eighth Edition. Life has always shown students how biology works, offering an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals of biology by describing the landmark experiments that revealed them. This edition builds on those strengths and introduces several innovations.
Enduring Features
Balanced experimental coverage. Life stands out from the other introductory biology texts in that it is not simply a “laundry list” of facts, nor is it so filled with strings of experiments that it obscures the concepts students need to learn. Indeed, Life presents a balanced approach to this experimental emphasis, with 84 Experiment figures and 28 Research Methods figures.
Cutting-edge content. Life has led by incorporating emerging subdisciplines, as evidenced by Chapter 20, Development and Evolutionary Change, and Chapter 24, The Evolution of Genes and Genomes.
Innovative balloon art. Consistently praised as having the best illustration program in introductory biology, Life uses step-by-step illustrations with strategically placed balloon captions to guide students through experiments and biological processes with succinct, clear explanations.
The best media. Life continues to lead the pack with cutting-edge teaching and learning support, every component of which was created for this book alone. The new BioPortal provides a complete online gateway to all of the student and instructor resources available with Life. Extensive presentation resources allow great flexibility in incorporating engaging images, videos, and animations into the lecture. Newly updated and integrated assessment resources help instructors keep close track of student and class progress.
New to This Edition
New Authorship
David Hillis of the University of Texas at Austin adds his expertise in phylogenetics and evolution to the Eighth Edition. He wrote Chapter 24, The Evolution of Genes and Genomes, and Chapter 25, Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies, and worked closely with his coauthors on substantive revisions of the other evolution chapters and the entire Diversity unit.
The Ecology unit has been carefully reorganized and rewritten with the help of May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. Based on her guidance and additional feedback from six other distinguished ecologists who also teach introductory biology, the revised Ecology unit provides more extensive and better integrated coverage of the key concerns of today’s practicing ecologists.
New Content
Consistent with prior editions’ acclaimed focus on the process of discovery, significant new research findings are presented in the new edition. Examples:
- The latest insights on how histone modifications can activate or inactivate genes by promoting either disassembly or assembly of nucleosomes. (Section 14.4)
- The role of in vitro evolution in designing new molecules, particularly those with pharmaceutical or industrial application. (Section 24.3)
- The methods scientists use to investigate how genes, hormones, and the environment interact to shape behavior, and how the behavioral responses of animals influence both their individual fitness and the functioning of ecological communities. (Section 53.2)
New Pedagogy
Many striking new pedagogical features make the text more engaging, more accessible, and easier to review:
- New Review and Reinforcement
- “Recaps” encapsulate central concepts in each section and include questions to encourage immediate review.
- Chapter Summaries provide a coherent review of each chapter’s key terms and concepts and reference key figures and Web topics that will help students prepare for tests.
- New Process of Science features
- Revised and new Experiment figures provide bench-level insights into applications of the scientific method. The new format uses Hypothesis, Method, Results, and Conclusions
- “Further Research” encourages students to explore related questions on their own.
- “For Investigation” problems wrapping up each chapter further stimulate students to think about the scientific process.
- New Motivation
- 3 to 5 “BioBits,” interspersed in each chapter, offer intriguing and sometimes amusing asides on real-world biology.
- New chapter-opening spreads feature a story that draws students into the chapter, an outline consisting of key questions around which the chapter is organized, and “In This Chapter”—a preview and roadmap of each chapter.
- New Look
- The Eighth Edition has been redesigned and reillustrated for greater visual clarity and impact.
Also Available: The Split Edition
As with previous editions, the Eighth Edition will also be available in three paperback volumes:
- Volume I The Cell and Heredity, Chapters 1–20
- Volume II Evolution, Diversity and Ecology, Chapters 1, 21–33, 52–57
- Volume III Plants and Animals, Chapters 1, 34–51
Ordering Information
Co-published with W.H. Freeman and Company
Address orders and examination copy requests for Life to:
VHPS/W. H. Freeman and Company
Order Department
16365 James Madison Highway
U.S. Route 15
Gordonsville, VA 22942
Telephone: 1-888-330-8477
NEW! BioPortal
The new BioPortal is the complete online gateway to all the student and instructor resources available with Life. BioPortal incorporates powerful learning management capabilities with book-specific content to form a rich, fully integrated online learning environment to complement your course. The ready-to-use course template can save you many hours of prep time and is fully customizable.
Features of BioPortal include:
- The flexibility of an intuitive, full-featured learning management system
- All of the book-specific teaching and learning resources, preloaded into a ready-to-use course layout
- Powerful assessment tools that provide timely and useful feedback on class and individual performance
- Seamless integration of student resources, eBook, assessment tools, and lecture resources
- Fully customizable by the instructor for individual teaching and learning styles
- Excellent technical support for instructors and students
eBook
The Life, Eighth Edition eBook is a powerful online version of the textbook. The eBook is available at a substantial cost savings to the student and is enhanced with many integrated media resources to make the learning experience as rich as possible. All the student animations, activities, and quizzes are included throughout the text and in-text quiz questions appear in context, helping to keep the student actively engaged. Interface features such as highlighting, notes, bookmarks, and search make the eBook easy to study from. Chapter summaries are transformed into activities by making key concepts fill-in-the-blanks or multiple choice, providing an active rather than a passive review of the chapter. All key terms are linked to their glossary definitions, with audio pronunciations.
Instructors can customize the Life eBook for their course in a variety of ways. The in-text Notes feature allows instructors to insert their own text, images, Web links, videos, and more on any page of the eBook. These notes are instantly visible to any students enrolled in the instructor’s class. The eBook can also be customized at the chapter and section level—instructors can select the chapters they want to use and can insert their own sections of text directly into the eBook, providing complete flexibility to match different course syllabi.
i>clicker
Developed by educators for educators, iclicker is a hassle-free radio-frequency classroom response system that makes it easy for instructors to ask questions, record responses, take attendance, and direct students through lectures as active participants.
To help instructors make the most effective use of clickers, the Life Instructor’s Media Library includes a set of questions specifically written for in-class quizzing. These questions are integrated into the provided lecture PowerPoint presentations at key points. They are designed to serve as an instant comprehension check, to help the instructor gauge how well the class is following the topic being presented.
Assessment Resources
Test File
Thoroughly revised and expanded for the Eighth Edition, the test file offers more than 5,000 questions, including fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice test questions, as well as the quiz questions from the student website, the study guide questions, and the textbook end-of-chapter questions. In addition, the Eighth Edition test file includes a new set of questions that incorporate diagrams and illustrations.
Computerized Test Bank
The easy-to-use computerized test bank CD includes the latest version of Brownstone’s Diploma software, in a format that lets instructors add, edit, and re-sequence questions to suit their needs.
Online Testing
With Diploma, instructors can easily create and administer secure exams over a network and over the Internet, with questions that incorporate multimedia and interactive exercises.
Presentation Resources
Instructor’s Media Library
Life offers instructors an extraordinary collection of media that can be easily incorporated into lectures to enhance and enliven the material being presented. The wide array of resources includes:
- Seeing Life: Video Sequences in Biology—Over 200 video segments that help your students experience the extraordinary structures, processes, and concepts of biology. All the segments are provided both on a high-quality DVD and on CD for use in PowerPoint.
- Over 100 Animations, including 20 Key Experiments—These detailed animations help to demonstrate the many dynamic processes in biology.
- All Textbook Illustrations, Photos, and Tables—Every piece of art, every photo, and every table in the textbook is provided in a variety of formats:
- Optimized for Projection: Balloon captions removed, label text enlarged, and complex figures split where necessary for legibility.
- Whole: The figures exactly as they appear in the textbook.
- All are provided in both JPEG (high- and low-resolution) and PDF formats.
- NEW! Editable Labels PowerPoint Slides—All of the textbook figures are provided in a new format, in which label text and leaders are editable in PowerPoint.
- Unlabeled Figures—All of the figures from the textbook are also provided in an unlabeled format that allows instructors to customize the figures with their own labels, for their own needs.
- Layered Art PowerPoint Slides (over 100 key figures)—By breaking down complex figures into detailed step-by-step and animated presentations, these editable layered PowerPoint slides let instructors introduce elements at their own pace.
- Supplemental Photo Collection—Over 1,500 additional photographs referenced to all the chapters of the book.
- Additional PowerPoint resources, including:
- Complete Lecture Presentations combining thorough text with key figures
- All textbook illustrations, photos, and tables, and all supplemental photos
- All videos and animations
- also:
- Lecture Notes, Test File, and Chapter Outlines in Word format
- An intuitive browser interface that makes it easy to preview all the elements of the Media Library on a single DVD-ROM disc.
Instructor’s Resource Kit
The Instructor’s Resource Kit includes a wealth of information to help instructors in the planning and teaching of their course. The Kit includes:
- Instructor’s Manual featuring a “What’s New” guide to the Eighth Edition, chapter-by-chapter teaching support, key terms, and chapter outlines.
- Lecture Notes—Detailed notes for each chapter that can serve as the basis for lectures, including references to figures and media resources.
- Media Guide—A visual guide to the extensive media resources available with the Eighth Edition of Life. The guide includes thumbnails and descriptions of every video, animation, lecture PowerPoint, and supplemental photo in the Media Library, all organized by chapter.
Overhead Transparencies
This set of over 1,000 transparencies includes all of the four-color line art and tables from the text, along with a convenient binder. Images have been optimized for projection and labels have been resized for improved readability.
Instructor’s Website
Featuring the online quiz gradebook, the entire Instructor’s Media Library, the Media Guide, updates, and more.
Course Management Support
For schools that are already using WebCT, Blackboard, or Angel, a preloaded content cartridge for Life, Eighth Edition is available. The cartridge includes all of the electronic instructor and student resources, ready to be incorporated into your course. The files can be customized to fit your specific course needs, or can be used as-is.
Table of Contents
PART ONE The Science and Building Blocks of Life
- The Science of Life and Its Evolutionary Framework
- The Chemistry of Life
- Macromolecules and the Origin of Life
PART TWO Cells and Energy
- Cells: The Working Units of Life
- The Dynamic Cell Membrane
- Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism
- Pathways That Harvest Chemical Energy
- Photosynthesis: Energy from Sunlight
PART THREE Heredity and the Genome
- Chromosomes and Cell Division
- Genetics: Mendel and Beyond
- DNA and Its Role in Heredity
- From DNA to Protein: Genotype to Phenotype
- The Genetics of Viruses and Prokaryotes
- The Eukaryotic Genome and Its Expression
PART FOUR The Genome in Action
- Cell Signaling and Communication
- Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology
- Genome Sequencing, Molecular Biology, and Medicine
- Immunology: Gene Expression and Natural Defense Systems
- Differential Gene Expression in Development
- Development and Evolutionary Change
PART FIVE The Patterns and Processes of Evolution
- The History of Life on Earth
- The Mechanisms of Evolution
- Species and Their Formation
- The Evolution of Genes and Genomes
- Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies
PART SIX The Evolution of Diversity
- Bacteria and Archaea: The Prokaryotic Domains
- The Origin and Diversification of the Eukaryotes
- Plants without Seeds: From Sea to Land
- The Evolution of Seed Plants
- Fungi: Recyclers, Pathogens, Parasites, and Plant Partners
- Animal Origins and the Evolution of Body Plans
- Protostome Animals
- Deuterostomate Animals
PART SEVEN Flowering Plants: Form and Function
- The Plant Body
- Transport in Plants
- Plant Nutrition
- Regulation of Plant Growth
- Reproduction in Flowering Plants
- Plant Responses to Environmental Challenges
PART EIGHT Animals: Form and Function
- Physiology and Homeostasis
- Animal Hormones
- Animal Reproduction
- Animal Development
- Neurons and Nervous Systems
- Sensory Systems
- The Mammalian Nervous System
- Effectors: Making Animals Move
- Gas Exchange
- Circulatory Systems
- Nutrition, Digestion, and Absorption
- Salt and Water Balance and Nitrogen Excretion
PART NINE Ecology
- Ecology and the Distribution of Life
- Behavior and Behavioral Ecology
- Population Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Ecosystems and Global Ecology
- Conservation Biology
Student Resources
Student Companion Website
(CD-ROM version available packaged with the textbook on request)
The Student Web site offers students a wide range of study and review resources, allowing them to learn and check their understanding in a variety of modes. Features:
- Interactive Chapter Summaries are a convenient, centralized way of reviewing each chapter—summaries of the key concepts presented in each chapter, with links to relevant figures, animations, and activities.
- Animated Tutorials present important concepts in depth. Each features an introduction, a detailed animation, a conclusion, and a quiz—all designed to enhance understanding of fundamental biological concepts.
- Key Experiment Tutorials present landmark biological research in an inquiry-based animated tutorial format.
- Experiment Links provide more information on the experiments featured in figures throughout the textbook.Activities and Flashcards test and reinforce knowledge of key terms, concepts, and structures.
- Interactive Quizzes incorporate figures, feedback for all answer choices, and links to pages of the text for a complete self-directed chapter review.
- Online Quizzes test the student’s knowledge of the core material presented in each chapter. Results are submitted electronically to the instructor.
- Glossary, both by chapter and global, with pronunciation guides, full definitions, and audio pronunciations of all terms.
- Study Skills provides class-tested practical advice on time management, test-taking, note-taking, and how to read the textbook.
- Math for Life is a series of exercises and tutorials that help students hone the basic quantitative skills needed in biology.
Study Guide
For each chapter of the text, the study guide offers clearly defined learning objectives, summaries of key concepts, and review and exam-style self-test questions with answers and explanations.
Lab Manuals
A full range of labs are available for bundling with Life. Lab manuals can be bundled whole, or individual labs can be selected. Custom publishing options allow instructors to choose the labs they want and package them with their own material.
NEW! MCAT Practice Test
A complete MCAT exam is available to accompany Life. This exam gives students a full set of actual MCAT questions to help them prepare for the exam effectively.
NEW! CatchUp Math for Biology
This new companion guide provides students with a review of the mathematics that are crucial to a quantitative understanding of biology. Sections of CatchUp Math are also integrated into the eBook and BioPortal, providing instant, in-context math tutorials as the student reads the book.
Lecture Notebook
This helpful tool consists of all the artwork from the textbook (more than 1,000 images), with ample space for note-taking. Because the notebook has already done the drawing, students can focus more of their attention on the concepts during lecture, allowing them to absorb the material more efficiently, and producing notes that are clearer, more accurate, and more useful for later studying.
Ordering Information
Co-published with W.H. Freeman and Company
Address orders and examination copy requests for Life to:
VHPS/W. H. Freeman and Company
Order Department
16365 James Madison Highway
U.S. Route 15
Gordonsville, VA 22942
Telephone: 1-888-330-8477
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