Biology with MasteringBiology™, 8/E
Neil A. Campbell, University of California, Riverside
Jane B. Reece, Berkeley, California

ISBN-10: 0321543254
ISBN-13: 9780321543257

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth Package; 1393 pp
Published: 11/27/2007

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The best-selling biology textbook in the world just got better!

 

Neil Campbell and Jane Reece’s BIOLOGY is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text’s hallmark values—accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning—have made Campbell/Reece the most successful book for students and instructors for seven consecutive editions.

  • Campbell/Reece is used in 2 out of 3 introductory biology courses for majors.
  • More than 6 million students have benefitted from BIOLOGY’s clear explanations, carefully crafted artwork, and student-friendly narrative style.
  • 65 percent of all doctors and biological scientists in the United States under the age of 40 began their study of biology with this book.

For the Eighth Edition, new coauthors have joined with those from previous editions to infuse this proven text with new ideas while upholding its hallmark values. Their collaboration has produced the authoritative introduction to biology, told with a unified voice and vision.


Each chapter is organized around a framework of four to six Key Concepts that provide the context for supporting details, helping students to distinguish the forest from the trees.

  • Key Concepts (3-6) are presented at the beginning of the chapter to orient students to the chapter content and introduce the central concepts of the chapter.  These provide an engaging Overview and new chapter opening questions that set the stage for exploring the main ideas in the chapter.
  • Numbered Concept Heads help students keep the big picture in mind as they begin each section of the chapter and make it easy for instructors to assign only certain sections.
  • Concept Check questions at the end of each concept section now have a built-in hierarchical framework for self-assessment that builds students' confidence and then challenges them to push the limits of their understanding with a new “What if?” question.   
  • The Summary of Key Concepts refocuses students on the main points of the chapter, restating the Key Concepts and emphasizing the chapter's organizational structure. Summary diagrams provide a visual review of the material.

The text engages students in scientific inquiry, revealing “how we know what we know” and helping students develop their critical thinking and inquiry skills.

  • New and revised Inquiry figures–at least one in each chapter–help students understand the experimental basis of biological knowledge and model scientific thinking.
    • Each Inquiry figure now references the Source of the article, encouraging students to extend their learning by exploring the primary literature.
    • Each Inquiry figure now concludes with a new “What if?” question that asks students to consider alternative scenarios.
  • Research Method Figures illustrate important techniques in biology.
  • Scientific Inquiry Questions at the end of each chapter give students more opportunities to practice critical thinking by developing hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing real research data.
  • Eight interviews with renowned researchers will inspire students and show them the human side of science. New to the Eighth Edition, each interviewee’s research is also featured in an Inquiry figure within the unit: Deborah Gordon, Stanford University; Paul Nurse, Rockefeller University; Terry Orr-Weaver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Scott Edwards, Harvard University; Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Pat Zambryski, University of California, Berkeley; Masashi Yanagasawa, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center; Diana Wall, Colorado State University.

The Eighth Edition improves upon the Campbell tradition of providing carefully crafted art that teaches difficult topics, along with a wealth of time-saving tools for instructors and students.

  • Exploring Figures help students access information efficiently by integrating text and visuals.
  • Guided Tour diagrams explain key structures, functions, and steps of processes within the figure, reducing the need to look back and forth between legend and art.
  • The art in the Eighth Edition has been revised and updated. For selected figures, a new, more 3-dimensional art style gives students the sense of looking at real biological structures, while avoiding excess detail that can obscure the main point of the figure.
  • Superb instructor and student supplements include an improved Campbell Media Manager that combines all instructor media resources into one chapter-by-chapter resource and an enhanced student website.  

 

  • A team of stellar coauthors join lead author Jane B. Reece in crafting the most exciting edition yet: Lisa Urry, Mills College; Michael Cain, Bowdoin College; Steven Wasserman, University of California at San Diego; Robert Jackson, Duke University; and Peter Minorsky, Mercy College.
  • Every chapter now includes at least one Inquiry figure that helps students understand the experimental basis of biological knowledge and model scientific thinking. Each Inquiry figure now references the Source of the article, encouraging students to extend their learning by exploring the primary literature. Selected Inquiry Figures direct students to read and analyze the original article in a new Inquiry in Action: Interpreting Scientific Papers supplement to the text.
  • “What if?” questions have been added to every Concept Check and Inquiry figure in the book and require higher-order thinking by students, not simply fact recall. These questions can serve as discussion starters for active learning in lecture, discussion sections, or student study groups.
  • Draw It exercises ask students to draw a structure, annotate a figure, or graph experimental data. These questions, which were added at the end of each chapter and within selected figure legends and Concept Check sections, give students an opportunity to practice visual representation skills and develop a deeper understanding of the content.
  • Selected figures now include Figure Legend Questions that encourage students to delve into complex diagrams and assess their understanding of the underlying concepts.
  • Each Chapter Review now integrates Visual summary graphics or summary tables to give students a visual way to summarize and remember content.
  • The art in the Eighth Edition has been revised and updated. For selected figures, a new, more 3-dimensional art style gives students the sense of looking at real biological structures, while avoiding excess detail that can obscure the main point of the figure.
  • BioFlix™ animations and student tools cover the most difficult biology topics with 3-D, movie-quality animations, labeled slide shows, carefully constructed student tutorials, study sheets, and quizzes that support all types of learners. Topics include Tour of An Animal Cell, Tour of A Plant Cell, Membrane Transport, Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis, Mitosis, Meiosis, DNA Replication, Protein Synthesis, Water Transport in Plants, How Neurons Work, Synapses, and Muscle Contraction.
  • The Study Area of MasteringBiology™ provides the student study resources that appeared on www.campbellbiology.com and have been updated, expanded, and integrated to offer students an unparalleled opportunity to practice biology. The Study Area contains the new BioFlix™ 3-D animations and tutorials plus hundreds of additional interactive activties, investigations, Discovery Channel Videos, MP3 Tutors, a customizable eBook, quizzes, and more.

1. INTRODUCTION: Themes in the Study of Life

 

Unit One: The Chemistry of Life

 2. The Chemical Context of Life

 3. Water and the Fitness of the Environment

 4. Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life

 5. The Structure and Function of Large Biological Molecules

 

Unit Two: The Cell

 6. A Tour of the Cell

 7. Membrane Structure and Function

 8. An Introduction to Metabolism

 9. Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Chemical Energy

10. Photosynthesis

11. Cell Communication

12. The Cell Cycle

 

Unit Three: Genetics

13. Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles

14. Mendel and the Gene Idea

15. The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance

16. The Molecular Basis of Inheritance

17. From Gene to Protein

18. Control of Gene Expression

19. Viruses

20. Biotechnology

21. Genomes and Their Evolution

 

Unit Four: Mechanisms of Evolution

22. Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life

23. The Evolution of Populations

24. The Origin of Species

25. The History of Life on Earth

 

Unit Five: The Evolutionary History of Biological Diversity

26. Phylogeny and the Tree of Life

27. Bacteria and Archaea

28. Protists

29. Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land

30. Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants

31. Fungi

32. An Introduction to Animal Diversity

33. Invertebrates

34. Vertebrates

 

Unit Six: Plant Form and Function

35. Plant Structure, Growth, and Development

36. Transport in Vascular Plants

37. Soil and Plant Nutrition

38. Angiosperm Reproduction and Biotechnology

39. Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals

 

Unit Seven: Animal Form and Function

40. Basic Principles of Animal Form and Function

41. Animal Nutrition

42. Circulation and Gas Exchange

43. The Immune System

44. Osmoregulation and Excretion

45. Hormones and the Endocrine System

46. Animal Reproduction

47. Animal Development

48. Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling

49. Nervous Systems

50. Sensory and Motor Mechanisms

51. Animal Behavior

 

Unit Eight: Ecology

52. An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere

53. Population Ecology

54. Community Ecology

55. Ecosystems

56. Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology

    Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's BIOLOGY remains unsurpassed as the most successful majors biology textbook in the world. This text has invited more than 4 million students into the study of this dynamic and essential discipline.

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Neil A. Campbell

Neil Campbell combined the investigative nature of a research scientist with the soul of an experienced and caring teacher. He

earned his M.A. in Zoology from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of California, Riverside, where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2001. Neil published numerous research articles on desert and coastal plants and how the sensitive plant (Mimosa) and other legumes move their leaves. His 30 years of teaching in diverse environments included general biology courses at Cornell University, Pomona College, and San Bernadino Valley College, where he received the college’s first Outstanding Professor Award in 1986. Neil was a visiting scholar in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. In addition to his authorship of this book, he coauthored Biology: Concepts & Connections and Essential Biologywith Jane Reece. Neil died shortly after the initial planning of this revision.

 

Jane B. Reece

Lead author Jane Reece, Neil Campbell’s longtime collaborator, has participated on every edition of BIOLOGY—first as an editor and contributor, then as an author. Her education includes an A.B. in Biology from Harvard University, an M.S. in Microbiology from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in Bacteriology from UC Berkeley. Before migrating to California from the Northeast, she taught biology at Middlesex County College and Queensborough Community College. At UC Berkeley, and later as a postdoctoral fellow in genetics at Stanford University, her research focused on genetic recombination in bacteria. Besides her work on BIOLOGY,she has been a coauthor on Biology: Concepts & Connections, Essential Biology, andThe World of the Cell.

 

For the Eighth Edition, Jane is joined by five coauthors whose contributions reflect their biological expertise as scientific

researchers and their teaching sensibilities gained from years of experience as instructors.

 

Lisa A. Urry

Lisa Urry (Units 1-3, Chapters 2-21, and Chapter 47) is a professor at Mills College and was a major contributor

to the Seventh Edition. After graduating from Tufts University with a double major in Biology and French, Lisa completed her Ph.D. in Molecular and Developmental Biology at MIT. Following postdoctoral appointments at Harvard Medical School, Tufts

University, and UC Berkeley, she began teaching at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she currently holds the Letts-Villard

Professorship and serves as Chair of the Biology Department. She has published research articles on various topics involving

gene expression during embryonic development. Her current research interest is in sea urchin development. Lisa is also deeply

committed to promoting opportunities for women in science education and research.

 

Michael L. Ca in

Michael Cain (Units 4 and 5, Chapters 22-34) is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist currently at Bowdoin College. Michael earned a joint major in Biology and Math from Bowdoin College, an M. Sc. from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and

Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. After postdoctoral work in plant ecology at the University of Connecticut and molecular genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael went on to teach general biology, ecology, and evolution in a diverse range of settings, including Carleton College, New Mexico State University, and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. Michael is the author of dozens of scientific papers on topics that include foraging behavior in insects and plants, long-distance seed dispersal, and speciation in crickets.

 

Peter V. Minorsky

Peter Minorsky (Unit 6, Chapters 35-39) revised Unit 6 for the Sixth and Seventh Editions and is a professor at Mercy College in New York, where he teaches evolution, ecology, botany, and introductory biology. He is also the science writer for the journal Plant Physiology. He received his B.A. in Biology from Vassar College and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Cornell University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Peter taught at Kenyon College, Union College, Western Connecticut State University, and Vassar College. He is an electrophysiologist who studies plant responses to stress and is currently exploring the possible effects of geomagnetism on plant growth.

 

Steven A. Wasserman

Steve Wasserman (Unit 7, Chapters 40-46 and 48-51) is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his A.B. in Biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from MIT. Since a postdoctoral sojourn at UC Berkeley, where he investigated topological transformations of DNA, he has focused on regulatory pathway mechanisms. Working with the fruit fly Drosophila, he has contributed to the fields of embryogenesis, reproduction, and immunity. As a faculty member at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center.

 

Robert B. Jackson

Rob Jackson (Unit 8, Chapters 52-56) is a professor of biology and Nicholas Chair of Environmental Sciences at Duke University. He directed Duke’s Program in Ecology for many years and is currently the Vice President of Science for the Ecological Society of

America. Rob holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, as well as M.S. degrees in Ecology and Statistics and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Utah State University. He was a postdoctoral scientist in Stanford University’s Biology Department and an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Rob has received numerous awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the National Science Foundation. He has published a trade book about the environment, The Earth Remains Forever, and a children’s book of poetry called Animal Mischief. His second children’s book, Not Again, will be published in 2008.

 

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    • The best-selling biology textbook in the world just got better!

     

    Neil Campbell and Jane Reece’s BIOLOGY is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text’s hallmark values—accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning—have made Campbell/Reece the most successful book for students and instructors for seven consecutive editions.

    • Campbell/Reece is used in 2 out of 3 introductory biology courses for majors.
    • More than 6 million students have benefitted from BIOLOGY’s clear explanations, carefully crafted artwork, and student-friendly narrative style.
    • 65 percent of all doctors and biological scientists in the United States under the age of 40 began their study of biology with this book.

    For the Eighth Edition, new coauthors have joined with those from previous editions to infuse this proven text with new ideas while upholding its hallmark values. Their collaboration has produced the authoritative introduction to biology, told with a unified voice and vision.

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