Biology: International Edition - Softcover

Campbell, Neil A.; Reece, Jane B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321270452 ISBN 13: 9780321270450

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

AP* Achievers are Advanced Placement* Exam preparation guide with advice and tips from experienced AP* Exam contributors and readers. They offer more support than any other prep guide. There are two complete timed practice exams with detailed answers and model essays. The AP Achievers parallel the organization of the leading college textbook and are accompanied by free access to useful resources on the McGraw-Hill Online Learning Centers.

The AP* Achiever that accompanies Mader's Biology, Tenth Edition, contains chapter introductions correlating the content of the text to the AP* exam, the Take Note feature highlighting specific concepts from the text that are important to the AP* exam, and two complete practice AP* exams.

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From the Publisher

Earlier coverage and newly revised animal behavior and ecology section.
Tied to Technology: Explorations in Cell Biology and Genetics CD-ROM Explorations in Human Biology CD-ROM Dynamic Human CD-ROM Life Sciences Animation Videos.
New features add to the already outstanding pedagogy include "Health & Ecology Focus Boxes," which relate Biology to real-life applications and "Doing Science Boxes," which feature research cases to interest students as to how their studies can be applied.
"Connecting Concepts" at the end of each chapter.
Numbered section headings throughout the chapters.
Use of color coding in the art program for visual orientation.

About the Author

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the National Research Council.

George B. Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis and a professor of genetics at the university's School of Medicine. He is a prolific author of life science texts and curriculum products in a variety of media. New to his list of works are the Explorations of Human Biology CD-ROM and the textbook Human Biology, both offered by Wm. C. Brown Publishers. Johnson is acknowledged as an authority on population genetics and evolution variability, and he has published more than 50 research papers dealing with these and related topics. Visitors to the St. Louis Zoo can appreciate Johnson's work in the Living World, the educational center of which he is the founding director.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0321270452
• ISBN 13: 9780321270450
• Binding: Paperback