Applied Biology (PDT178/2)

Biology: Understanding Life has been conceptualized, written, and revised with one goal in mind: to help non-major biology students understand and learn about biology and how it relates to their everyday lives. The text offers a comprehensive and completely integrated teaching and learning program that helps students understand and appreciate the relevancy of biological concepts and think critically. Recognizing the incredibly diverse learning styles of today's students, an effort was made to incorporate non-text learning aids, including an extensive text-specific web site, an instructor's lecture presentation CD-ROM, an interactive student CD-ROM, and a student video, creating a complete biology program, guaranteed to motivate both the student and professor.

This story-based, inquiry-driven biology book provides readers with the ability and desire to take an active and academic interest in the science issues they will regularly face in life.  The book focuses on key concepts of biology and the use of science to solve social problems, covering general principles of biology, genetics, evolution, human health, humans and the environment, chemistry, animal and plant physiology, and more.  For an in-depth understanding of compelling contemporary topics–along with the biology that permeates these issues.

Biochemistry,Third Edition merges a classical organization and presentation with contemporary insight, information, and technology, to make modern biochemistry interesting and accessible to today's students. Thoroughly updated to include the latest information, perspectives, and experimental techniques, the text is now supported by integrated media resources designed by the co-author Kevin Ahern. Together, the text and media resources provide students and instructors with a doorway to the vast world of biochemistry that is continuously evolving and which greatly exceeds what could be covered in a conventional textbook alone. As in previous editions, the authors introduce nucleic acid structure early (to clarify presentations of protein structure and function), emphasize the experimental roots of biochemistry (past and present), continually emphasize the energy relationships in biochemistry, and take a stepwise approach to complex metabolic pathways. the result is a thorough grounding in biology at the atomic/molecular level. the explosive growth of biochemistry, molecular biology, and biotechnology makes this approach particularly relevant for today's life science students.

Biology and Biotechnology: Science, Applications, and Issues offers an inviting exploration of biotechnology, carefully blending science, consumer applications, regulatory information, and social issues. Providing a strong basis in the fundamentals of biological science, the book focuses on the material that is needed to understand and evaluate technologies that are available to consumers. Biology and Biotechnology is largely intended for ...undergraduate nonmajor science courses; however, biology majors will benefit from the unique perspective. In addition, with its highly readable writing style, this new volume will intrigue members of the lay public who have little scientific background and seek to educate themselves on the burgeoning field of biotechnology.

In Biology of Cancer, First Edition from professors Randall Phillis and Steve Goodwin of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the causes, growth patterns, and possible treatments of various types of cancers are presented in a clear and concise format. The authors discuss the major characteristics of the cancerous cell and the research being conducted on the hereditary and behavioral factors (i.e. smoking) that contribute to the development of the disease in cancer patients.