Analysis of Biological Development - Hardcover

Kalthoff, Klaus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070920370 ISBN 13: 9780070920378

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2000

Synopsis

This text, now available in full color, presents developmental biology as an ongoing process of enquiry, giving students a sense of the ways developmental biologists gain knowledge and a taste of the challenges ahead. The first part of the text focuses on the classical methods of analysis and the stages of embryonic development from gametogenesis to histogenesis. Part Two introduces the genetic and molecular analysis of development. The final part combines classical and modern types of analysis towards the investigation of long standing problems in development. Key experiments are described throughout to reinforce the relationship between scientific models and experimental data.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Significant Enhancements to New Edition:

- Full-color line art

- New chapter on the evolutionary theory of senescence and some of its proximate causes

- Complete updating of the research and discoveries in this fast-paced field

- Cell adhesion and extracellular matrix chapters combined and moved to Part One where they fit more naturally with gastrulation and organogenesis

- New Critical Thinking Questions follow the discussion of key experiments and test the students' understanding of the analytical process

- A robust new website with jpeg files for all line art and tables, access to movies and animations of interest to the developmental biologist, content updates, and exam questions.
An approach to developmental biology that recognizes the importance of classical and modern methods of analysis.
Chapter organization that recognizes the chronological order of developmental events, from gametogenesis to histogenesis.
A textbook explicitly designed and written for today's students:

- A teaching philosophy espousing science as a dynamic process for gaining understanding, rather than an overload of facts and results.

- Readable, concise and modern.

- An emphasis on Principles, the major developmental mechanisms (12 integrated in text ); Strategies, the fundamental experimental procedures used in developmental biology (7 integrated in text); and Methods, the labaratory tools most commonly used in developmental biology (11 Methods Boxes). The emphasis on recurring Principles, Stategies and Methods provides a sense of continuity and structure for the student faced with a plethora of new details and results.
Descriptions of experiments designed to test basic hypothesis on development are integrated throughout the text. Short explanations of key research methods are found in "methods" boxes.
A wide variety of organisms are used as illustrative examples, including those that lend themselves to genetic analysis.
Comprehensive treatment of growth control and cancer.
A complete chapter on plant pattern formation.

About the Author:

Director, Institute of Developmental Biology

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0070920370
• ISBN 13: 9780070920378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 896