Henderson's Dictionary of Biology

Lawrence, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131273841 ISBN 13: 9780131273849

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005

The thirteenth edition of this classic dictionary, first published eighty years ago, has been updated throughout, rewritten for clarity and reorganised to make it even easier to use.

Henderson's Dictionary of Biology continues to provide an essential reference for students of any of the biological sciences and for teachers and researchers.

From the Back Cover:

The thirteenth edition of this classic dictionary has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and now includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics.

Key Features

·  over 22,000 entries

·  clear definitions and additional explanations

·  covers a wide range of topics

·  includes new terms since the last edition, e.g. chameleon  sequence, metabolomics,       protein chip, boundary elements, lipid raft, LUCA, RNA interference, ontology

·  includes simplified, up-to-date classification tables for the kingdoms of living organisms

Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology continues to provide an essential reference for students of any of the biological sciences and for teachers and researchers.

Eleanor Lawrence is a freelance science writer and editor, and co-author of Longman Dictionary of Environmental Science.