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Essentials of the Living World 5/e (絕)

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ISBN：9781259253546
作者：George Johnson
版次：5
年份：2017
出版商：McGraw-Hill
頁數/規格：686頁/平裝彩色

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Description
Essentials of The Living World is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". Essentials of The Living World focuses on concepts rather than terminology and technical information, and features a straightforward, clear writing style and a wide variety of media assets to enhance the content of the textbook.

New Features

Inquiry and Analysis - Each chapter begins with a new discussion based on a topic relevant to students. The essay ends with a question students would not be expected to be able to answer before mastering the chapter content. At chapter's end, this question is answered in the new feature Putting the Chapter to Work, where the reader is briefly reminded why the chapter content is relevant and important to learn. List of chapter topics is found on page v of the Preface.

Key Features

The Learning Path
The student’s learning path through each chapter is a journey that attempts to convert learning objectives into realized learning outcomes.
Each chapter is now broken into conceptual blocks, each block introduced with a targeted learning objective that pinpoints the concept or process that is the focus of the block.
Each block is completed with a “putting the concept to work” question that requires the student to draw a conclusion from what he or she has learned.
The success of this transformation is assessed again at the end of the chapter, where each learning objective is linked to a specific learning outcome summarized at the end of the chapter, and to Bloom-based end of-chapter questions, each linked to a specific learning outcome in Connect.
LearnSmart for Johnson: Essentials of the Living World, 5e
Bright futures begin with a smarter way to learn. LearnSmart monitors students' learning styles as it teaches and adapts instantly based on their performance.
- Measure - Assess and monitor students levels.
- Adapt - Provide interactive assessments based on strengths & weaknesses.
- Empower - Map out a personalized plan for successful learning.
Linking Arrows Bold GREEN and BLUE Arrows point a student to an earlier place in the text or to an upcoming topic where an important related concept or finding has been or will be discussed.
Inquiry and Analysis - This feature appears at the end of all chapters and is intended to help students with developing their skills in analyzing and interpreting data. The author provides a 2-page discussion on the presentation of data in Chapter 1, introducing the students to the concepts of variables, relationships between variables, and presentation of data in various types of graphs. To reinforce this concept, the Inquiry and Analysis sections present the student with experimental data and help them analyze the data with a set of questions that walks them through the data.
New more accessible design

Table of Contents
0 Studying Biology

Part 1 The Study of Life
1 The Science of Biology

Part 2 The Living Cell
2 The Chemistry of Life
3 Molecules of Life
4 Cells
5 Energy and Life
6 Photosynthesis: Acquiring Energy from the Sun
7 How Cells Harvest Energy from Food

Part 3 The Continuity of Life
8 Mitosis
9 Meiosis
10 Foundations of Genetics
11 DNA: The Genetic Material
12 How Genes Work
13 The New Biology

Part 4 The Evolution and Diversity of Life
14 Evolution and Natural Selection
15 Exploring Biological Diversity
16 Evolution of Microbial Life
17 Evolution of Plants
18 Evolution of Animals

Part 5 The Living Environment
19 Populations and Communities
20 Ecosystems
21 Behavior and the Environment
22 How Humans Influence the Living World

Part 6 Animal Life
23 The Animal Body and How It Moves
24 Circulation
25 Respiration
26 The Path of Food Through the Animal Body
27 Maintaining the Internal Environment
28 How the Animal Body Defends Itself
29 The Nervous System
30 Chemical Signaling Within the Animal Body
31 Reproduction and Development

Part 7 Plant Life
32 Plant Form and Function
33 Plant Reproduction and Growth