Asking About Life: Process of Science Discovering Biology

Science & Math

Dusheck, Jennie

Tobin, Allan J.

Biological Sciences

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

This is a new edition of the winner of the 1999 award of excellence from the Text and Academic Authors Association in the college life sciences category. ASKING ABOUT LIFE, Second Edition promotes student understanding of the experimental origins of biological knowledge through a truly inquiry-based approach. This emphasis helps students learn biology by emphasizing questions, experimentation, and principles of biology. The text presents biology as a dynamic human activity, stressing the importance of questions rather than answers. Through engaging stories, clear illustrations, and verbal and visual metaphors, the authors make biology accessible and friendly, while still conveying the excitement of contemporary research. This edition was developed using the extensive research done with users and non-users of previous editions by the Market Intelligence Group.

Asking About Life

Cengage Learning'

This manual, written by Marni Fylling, includes 15 lab exercises that are keyed to chapters of the main text. All lab exercises are accompanied by full-color illustrations, executed by the author, that complement and augment the lab materials.

Laboratory Manual for Tobin/Dusheck's Asking About Life, 2nd

Asking About Life is an introductory biology textbook for first-year college students and other interested readers. The strengths of the book include engaging stories about the process of science, an emphasis on experimentation, and stylish prose. It is unusually current for an introductory text, and has a striking art program. The authors, a distinguished research scientist and a professional science writer, use a unique approach to biology that emphasizes questions, experimentation, and principles as well as the human drama that has allowed scientists to arrive at these principles. The text introduces biology as an engaging human quest fraught with conflict and illuminated by discovery. The authors accomplish this by telling stories of individuals struggling against ignorance, ideology, and other barriers to understanding. This new approach brings to the classroom the human drama needed to sustain student interest, without the dreary emphasis on disease and suffering that some biology textbooks use as a "human" approach. Subjects for profile range from outspoken mavericks such as Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis and immunologist Polly Matzinger to quiet and tenacious researchers such as geneticist Barbara McClintock and Charles Darwin. The profiles feature scientists whose flaws, passions, and independence play a significant role in the way they do science. In this way, Asking About Life shows that science is a social endeavor and that discoveries may hinge on which researchers work in groups and which ones work in isolation. This approach to teaching biology gently engages the reader in the process of doing science and humanizes both biologists and biology. Asking About Life also emphasizes that science is primarily a series of questions. The way in which biologists ask questions and attempt to answer those questions is the book's central theme. Each chapter is structured around a series of questions and answers that engage the reader step by step in the process of discovery. Readers learn that sometimes the greatest contribution a scientist can make is not the answer to an important question, but the question itself. The authors of Asking About Life ask: What questions have the most engaged biologists argued about in the past? How have past controversies led to our current understanding of biology and to the questions that fascinate today's biologists? Finally, they ask, what are the important unanswered questions in biology? In keeping with this emphasis on asking and answering questions, Asking About Life describes the experiments that provided the answers to important questions in biology. Students who have learned the experimental underpinnings of current concepts are in a better position to assimilate new information as it emerges(whether in later classes or in the daily news. Asking About Life is unusually current for an introductory text, using up-to-date examples throughout and grappling with topical issues such as gene therapy, the cloning of humans, the role of dietary salt in hypertension, and the role of nicotine in heart disease. These examples engage not only the student but the instructor as well. The authors operate from the premise that when an instructor is intellectually engaged with the text, students benefit.

Holt Science and Technology by Holt Rinehart and Winston.

Holt Science and Technology: Life

Teen & Young Adult

Allen, Katy Z

Berg, Linda Ruth

Taylor, Mark F

Education & Reference

Asking About Life (with InfoTrac)

Experiments are the plot that holds the story of biology together. ASKING ABOUT LIFE uses the process of experimentation to describe the scientific process and to illustrate the personal and professional motives that drive scientists to work so hard at asking and answering questions. In this important revision, the authors continue to use thought-provoking chapter-opening stories to engage students in the process of science. At the same time, they focus on making the text more accessible through streamlined coverage (100 fewer pages in this edition) and a refined organization and design. New features make it easier for students to remember the main ideas. For example, Key Questions begin each chapter, main headings are numbered to make it easier for students to locate previously read information, and Chapter Summaries are organized around Key Questions. All these features provide consistency throughout each chapter. Student support is also a main focus. A student CD-ROM, BiologyNow, packaged FREE with each copy of the text includes questions created around the text's opening stories and uses diagnostic pre-tests to generate a personalized learning plan for each student. Students also receive FREE access to InfoTrac College Edition, an online university library with articles from 5,000 periodicals. vMentor, a FREE online live tutoring service rounds this powerful student supplements package. For instructors, a Multimedia Manager provides all the text art in PowerPoint form, as well as a great Instructor's Guide, an Electronic Test Bank, and WebTutor course management options. Instructors will receive CNN clips in the multimedia manager but the full set of CNN Today video clips (294 in all) is available to adopters as well. Updated throughout, the Third Edition captures the terrific excitement of current 21st century science and is accompanied by powerful new learning tools that expand the text's themes.

Asking About Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Written by Lori Garrett of the Danville Area Community College. Includes the Key Concepts of the material to be mastered, an Extended Chapter Outline that gives an overview of the most important topics covered in the chapter, Vocabulary Building exercises, and Chapter Tests. Each Chapter Test has four parts: Multiple Choice; Matching; Short Answer; and Essay/Thought Questions. The third edition of the Study Guide has a greater emphasis on questions that require integration of concepts and critical thinking skills. All answers are provided, with the exception of the Essay/Thought Questions.

Study Guide for Tobin/Dusheck's Asking About Life, 3rd

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Asking About Life: Process of Science Discovering Biology

Asking About Life

Laboratory Manual for Tobin/Dusheck's Asking About Life, 2nd

Asking About Life

Holt Science and Technology: Life

Asking About Life (with InfoTrac)

Asking About Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Study Guide for Tobin/Dusheck's Asking About Life, 3rd