Asking about Cells

Tobin, Allan J.

Harcourt Brace College Publishers

Asking About Life: Process of Science Discovering Biology

Science & Math

Dusheck, Jennie

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'

To accomplish your course goals, use this study guide to enhance your understanding of the text content and to be better prepared for quizzes and tests. This convenient manual helps you assimilate and master the information encountered in the text through the use of practice exercises and applications, comprehensive review tools, and additional helpful resources.

Asking About Life Study Guide

TOBIN

Set of approximately 200 unlabeled, full-color line drawings from the text.

Student Art Book for Tobin/Dusheck's Asking About Life, 2nd

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 Cells

Morel, Richard E.

Chemistry

Harcourt College Pub.

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.

The main goal of ASKING ABOUT CELLS is to evoke from students a desire to learn more about cell biology, which stems from gaining an understanding of the processes by which researchers discover the connections between cells and the rest of biology. By breaking down the typically encyclopedic walls of molecular and cellular detail, this text concentrates on presenting material through the energy of inquiry, revealing to students the questioning nature of cell biology. This exciting new cell biology text is designed for a one-semester, introductory course for instructors who wish to emphasize basic concepts and principles. This text portrays and emphasizes how the ongoing process of scientific inquiry has led to our knowledge of how cells operate. In this new text, cell biology is portrayed as a dynamic blend of curiosity and observation that has led to new questions and to a continuing quest to understand fundamental life processes.

Brooks/Cole

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Asking about Cells

Asking About Life: Process of Science Discovering Biology

Asking About Life

Asking About Life Study Guide

Student Art Book for Tobin/Dusheck's Asking About Life, 2nd

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

Asking About Cells

Asking About Life

Asking About Cells

Asking About Life (with InfoTrac)