Practicing Biology

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This workbook focuses on key ideas, principles, and concepts that are fundamental to understanding biology. A variety of hands-on activities, such as mapping and modeling, suit different learning styles and help students discover which topics they need more help on. Students learn biology by doing biology.

This workbook focuses on key ideas, principles, and concepts that are fundamental to understanding biology. A variety of hands-on activities, such as mapping and modeling, suit different learning styles and help students discover which topics they need more help on. Students learn biology by doing biology.

Help students synthesize ideas and make connections

• New – End of Unit Case study, woven throughout the entire text and introduced in Chapter 1, features poison newts and garter snakes to show that biology concepts and the various sub-disciplines of biology (e.g., genetics, evolution, physiology, ecology, etc.) are connected. Each unit concludes with a two-page spread that focuses on biological elements and questions relevant to the unit and the case study.
• The End of Unit case study is supported by Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules with instructional resources that include in-class clicker questions and activities and related Mastering Biology questions for pre- and post-class assignments.
• “Put It All Together” Case Studies for each chapter enable students to apply knowledge they learned in the chapter to a new, related situation straight from contemporary research.
• Big Picture concept maps integrate visuals and words to help students synthesize concepts, patterns, and information across chapters for challenging topics in biology, including Energy, Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology. Assignable Big Picture concept map tutorials in Mastering Biology provide challenging, higher-level activities that require students to answer questions about the content.
• ”You should be able to…” activities encourage students to analyze important patterns within each Big Picture concept map. These activities also appear within the prose of each chapter and in Check Your Understanding boxes at the end of each section, and challenge students to demonstrate understanding and apply their knowledge to new situations.

 

Enable your students to develop scientific skills

• New – Three New Making Models boxes target additional skills and applications (Ch. 5: Tips on Drawing Carbohydrates; Ch. 40: Tips on Using Arrows; Ch. 48: Tips on Drawing Immune System Processes). In total, forty-six Making Models boxes appear at strategic points throughout chapters to guide students in deepening their understanding of biology concepts by learning how to interpret and create visual models. Brief, easy-to-follow instructions in each Making Models box provide a short introduction that describes how to make a useful drawing, a simple sketch that models how to draw the concepts, and an activity question that prompts students to create their own model or modify the example sketch. Each Making Models is supported by a dynamic whiteboard video (available in the eText, in the Study Area of Mastering, and in assignable homework items in Mastering) that brings the modeling activity to life and helps students better understand modeling and key biology concepts.

• BioSkills reference section appears between Chapters 1 and 2, drawing attention to key skills students need to succeed in biology with easy-to-find reference material that supports the skill development throughout the course. Each BioSkill includes practice exercises in the book, questions in the Study Area of Mastering, and assignable activities in Mastering to reinforce the skill.
• Updated – GraphIt! Coaching activities help students read, interpret, and create graphs that explore real environmental issues using real data. All 10 activities explore current topics such as the carbon footprint of food, fresh water availability, and ocean acidification in an entirely new mobile experience with accessible design.

 

Implement effective pedagogy informed by learning design and best practices

• New – 24 Figure Walkthrough Videos throughout the text help students better understand key concepts by breaking the information down in figures. Figure Walkthroughs are embedded in Pearson eText for practice at the initial point of learning and also included in assignable Mastering activities to help students practice working with visuals.
• New – Learning objectives appear at the beginning of each section to guide students and describe what they will be expected to learn.
• New – All in-text and test bank questions are now aligned to two levels of learning outcomes to better align  assessment items with the stated outcomes.   

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Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you’d like to build your own auto-graded assignments, foster student engagement during class, or give students anytime, anywhere access, Mastering gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs.

• New – Five Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules expand the number of modules designed to make use of -teaching tools before, during, and after class, including new ideas for in-class activities. The modules incorporate the best that the text, Mastering Biology, and Learning Catalytics have to offer and can be accessed through the Instructor Resources area of Mastering Biology.
• New – Early Alerts in Mastering Biology uses scores and behavioral data to help instructors identify students at risk of not performing well in the course. This insight enables instructors to provide informed feedback and support at the moment students need it so they can stay—and succeed—in the course.
• With Learning Catalytics, you’ll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do — and don’t — understand. Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly, and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged. Instructors can create their own questions, draw from community content, or access the Learning Catalytics library of question clusters. Focused on key topics, the clusters consist of 2-5 questions about a single data set or scenario.

 

Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning, including adaptive tools and wrong-answer feedback, pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice and gives all students the support they need — when and where they need it — to be successful.

• Adaptive Follow-Ups (AFUs) provide targeted practice and coaching to help students master the material. Relying on findings from cognitive psychology studies, Adaptive Follow-Ups incorporate spacing — the practice of repeatedly presenting information over spaced intervals — to help students retain information. Each assignment is broken into sets of questions that target gaps in understanding based on the student’s past performance on course work to date, including homework, tests, and quizzes.
• New – Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place—even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Pearson eText for Freeman Biological Science presents over 150 carefully chosen videos and animations that engage students and bring biology to life. Resources include BioFlix animations, Making Models videos, Figure Walkthrough videos, and HHMI Biointeractive videos and animations.
• Dynamic Study Modules use the latest developments in cognitive science to help students study course topics by adapting to their performance in real time. As a result, students build the confidence they need to deepen their understanding, participate meaningfully, and perform better — in and out of class. Available on smartphones, tablets, and computers.

 

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• New – 24 Figure Walkthrough Videos guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and questions that reinforce important points to help students better understand key concepts by breaking the information down in figures. Figure Walkthroughs are embedded in Pearson eText and available in Mastering Biology for practice at the initial point of learning.
• New – Three additional Making Models activities (Ch. 5: Tips on Drawing Carbohydrates; Ch. 40: Tips on Using Arrows; Ch. 48: Tips on Drawing Immune System Processes) expand the number of activities to 46 and include instructional whiteboard videos plus application questions to help students develop the skills of interpreting visual models. They  are assignable for homework.
• Scientific Thinking Activities help students develop an understanding of how scientific research is conducted. Topics include research questions such as “Can Scientists Use Gene Expression Data to Personalize Cancer Treatment?” and “Do the Microorganisms in Our Digestive Tract Play a Role in Obesity?”
• New – LabBench pre-lab materials provide the perfect combination of technique, content, and skill development to help your students move toward inquiry and understanding. These take students step-by-step through the concepts and techniques necessary to understand and conduct biological investigations, and ask them to make predictions, justify conclusions, evaluate data, apply mathematical techniques, and analyze the results of their investigation. Each section ends with formative assessment questions that test student comprehension and implement answer-specific feedback for each question.
• LabBench topics are: LabBench Investigation: Cellular Respiration, Biotechnology—Bacterial Transformation, Biotechnology—Restriction Enzyme Analysis of DNA, Energy Dynamics, Cell Division—Mitosis and Meiosis, Transpiration
• LabBench: Fruit Fly Behavior, Enzymes, Diffusion and Osmosis, Photosynthesis, Artificial Selection, Hardy-Weinberg Modeling, Blast and Phylogeny

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Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what’s new in this edition.

Help students synthesize ideas and make connections

• End of Unit Case study, woven throughout the entire text and introduced in Chapter 1, features poison newts and garter snakes to show that biology concepts and the various sub-disciplines of biology (e.g., genetics, evolution, physiology, ecology, etc.) are connected. Each unit concludes with a two-page spread that focuses on biological elements and questions relevant to the unit and the case study.
• The End of Unit case study is supported by Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules with instructional resources that include in-class clicker questions and activities and related Mastering Biology questions for pre- and post-class assignments.

Enable your students to develop scientific skills

• Three New Making Models boxes target additional skills and applications (Ch. 5: Tips on Drawing Carbohydrates; Ch. 40: Tips on Using Arrows; Ch. 48: Tips on Drawing Immune System Processes). In total, forty-six Making Models boxes appear at strategic points throughout chapters to guide students in deepening their understanding of biology concepts by learning how to interpret and create visual models. Brief, easy-to-follow instructions in each Making Models box provide a short introduction that describes how to make a useful drawing, a simple sketch that models how to draw the concepts, and an activity question that prompts students to create their own model or modify the example sketch. Each Making Models is supported by a dynamic whiteboard video (available in the eText, in the Study Area of Mastering, and in assignable homework items in Mastering) that brings the modeling activity to life and helps students better understand modeling and key biology concepts.

• Updated – GraphIt! Coaching activities help students read, interpret, and create graphs that explore real environmental issues using real data. All 10 activities explore current topics such as the carbon footprint of food, fresh water availability, and ocean acidification in an entirely new mobile experience with accessible design.

Implement effective pedagogy informed by learning design and best practices

• 24 Figure Walkthrough Videos throughout the text help students better understand key concepts by breaking the information down in figures. Figure Walkthroughs are embedded in Pearson eText for practice at the initial point of learning and also included in assignable Mastering activities to help students practice working with visuals.
• Learning objectives appear at the beginning of each section to guide students and describe what they will be expected to learn.
• All in-text and test bank questions are now aligned to two levels of learning outcomes to better align  assessment items with the stated outcomes.   

 

Reach every student with Mastering

• Five Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules expand the number of modules designed to make use of -teaching tools before, during, and after class, including new ideas for in-class activities. The modules incorporate the best that the text, Mastering Biology, and Learning Catalytics have to offer and can be accessed through the Instructor Resources area of Mastering Biology.

• Early Alerts in Mastering Biology uses scores and behavioral data to help instructors identify students at risk of not performing well in the course. This insight enables instructors to provide informed feedback and support at the moment students need it so they can stay—and succeed—in the course
• Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place—even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Pearson eText for Freeman Biological Science presents over 150 carefully chosen videos and animations that engage students and bring biology to life. Resources include BioFlix animations, Making Models videos, Figure Walkthrough videos, and HHMI Biointeractive videos and animations.
• 24 Figure Walkthrough Videos guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and questions that reinforce important points to help students better understand key concepts by breaking the information down in figures. Figure Walkthroughs are embedded in Pearson eText and available in Mastering Biology for practice at the initial point of learning.
• Three additional Making Models activities (Ch. 5: Tips on Drawing Carbohydrates; Ch. 40: Tips on Using Arrows; Ch. 48: Tips on Drawing Immune System Processes) expand the number of activities to 46 and include instructional whiteboard videos plus application questions to help students develop the skills of interpreting visual models. They  are assignable for homework.
• LabBench pre-lab materials provide the perfect combination of technique, content, and skill development to help your students move toward inquiry and understanding. These take students step-by-step through the concepts and techniques necessary to understand and conduct biological investigations, and ask them to make predictions, justify conclusions, evaluate data, apply mathematical techniques, and analyze the results of their investigation. Each section ends with formative assessment questions that test student comprehension and implement answer-specific feedback for each question.
• LabBench Investigation: Cellular Respiration, Biotechnology—Bacterial Transformation, Biotechnology—Restriction Enzyme Analysis of DNA, Energy Dynamics, Cell Division—Mitosis and Meiosis, Transpiration
• LabBench: Fruit Fly Behavior, Enzymes, Diffusion and Osmosis, Photosynthesis, Artificial Selection, Hardy-Weinberg Modeling, Blast and Phylogeny

 

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what’s new in this edition.

Scott Freeman received a PhD in Zoology from the University of Washington and was subsequently awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Evolution at Princeton University. He has done research in evolutionary biology on topics ranging from nest parasitism to the molecular systematics of the blackbird family and is coauthor, with Jon Herron, of the standard-setting undergraduate text Evolutionary Analysis. Scott is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington and is currently a Principal Lecturer in the UW Department of Biology, where he teaches introductory biology for majors, a writing-intensive course for majors called The Tree of Life, and a graduate seminar in college science teaching. Scott’s current research focuses on how active learning affects student learning and academic performance.

Lizabeth A. Allison is Chancellor Professor of Biology at the College of William & Mary. She received her PhD in Zoology from the University of Washington, specializing in molecular and cellular biology. Before coming to William & Mary, she spent eight years as a faculty member at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Liz teaches introductory biology for majors and upper division molecular biology courses. She has mentored graduate students and more than 120 undergraduate research students, many of them coauthoring papers with her on intracellular trafficking of the thyroid hormone receptor in normal and cancer cells. The recipient of numerous awards, including a State Council for Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009, Liz received one of the three inaugural Arts Shouland Sciences Faculty Awards for Teaching Excellence in 2011, and a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence in 2012. In addition to her work on this text, she is author of Fundamental Molecular Biology, now in its second edition, with a third edition under way.

Lead Author; Chapters 1, 33, 48 and BioSkills

laalli@wm.edu

Michael Black received his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Stanford University School of Medicine as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow. After graduation, he studied cell biology as a Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. His current research focuses on the use of molecules to identify and track the transmission of microbes in the environment. Michael is a professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he teaches introductory and advanced classes for majors in cell biology and microbiology. In addition to his teaching and research activities, Michael serves as the director of the Undergraduate Biotechnology Lab, where he works alongside undergraduate technicians to integrate research projects and inquiry-based activities into undergraduate classes.

Chapters 2—12

mblack@calpoly.edu

Greg Podgorski received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Penn State University and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry and Columbia University. His research interests are in biology education, developmental genetics, and computational biology. Greg’s most recent work has been in mathematical modeling of how patterns of different cell types emerge during development and how tumors recruit new blood vessels in cancer. Greg has been teaching at Utah State University for more than 20 years in courses that include introductory biology for majors and nonmajors, genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, and microbiology, and he has offered courses in nonmajors biology in Beijing and Hong Kong. He has won teaching awards at Utah State University and has been recognized by the National Academies as a Teaching Fellow and a Teaching Mentor.

Chapters 13—21

greg.podgorski@usu.edu

Kim Quillin received her BA in Biology at Oberlin College summa cum laude and her PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Kim has worked in the trenches with Scott Freeman on every edition of Biological Science, starting with the ground-up development of the illustrations in the first edition in 1999 and expanding her role in each edition. Kim currently serves as the Curriculum Coordinator for Introductory Biology for Salisbury University (SU), a member of the University System of Maryland, where she is actively involved in the ongoing student-centered reform of the course for biology majors. She also serves as the Curriculum Facilitator for the biology department, focusing on programmatic review and alignment of the SU biology curriculum to the Vision and Change core concepts and competencies.

Chapters 22—25, 30—32, 49—54

kxquillin@salisbury.edu

Jeff Carmichael received his BS in Biology from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania and his PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia. As an undergraduate student, he spent some time studying enzyme kinetics through a fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. His graduate work focused on sexual reproduction in an intriguing group of seed plants. He has been teaching and coordinating Introductory Biology at the University of North Dakota (UND) for more than 20 years. He also works with the campus-wide Teaching Transformation and Development Academy, where he helps other faculty members incorporate evidence-based best teaching practices in their courses. He has received excellence in teaching awards at UND and as a graduate student in Georgia.

Chapters 26—29 and 34—38

Jeffrey.Carmichael@und.edu

Emily Taylor earned a BA in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She then earned a PhD in Biological Sciences from Arizona State University, where she conducted research in the field of environmental physiology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She is currently a professor of Biological Sciences at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her student-centered research program focuses on the endocrine and reproductive physiology of free-ranging reptiles, especially rattlesnakes. She teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, including introductory biology, anatomy and physiology, endocrinology, and herpetology, and received the California Faculty Association’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2010 and Cal Poly’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012.

Chapters 39—47

etaylor@calpoly.edu

Brief Contents

1. Biology: The Study of Life BioSkills

UNIT 1: The Molecular Origin and Evolution of Life

1. Water and Carbon: The Chemical Basis of Life
2. Protein Structure and Function
3. Nucleic Acids and an RNA World
4. An Introduction to Carbohydrates
5. Lipids, Membranes, and the First Cells

UNIT 2: Cell Structure and Function

1. Inside the Cell
2. Energy and Enzymes: An Introduction to Metabolism
3. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
4. Photosynthesis
5. Cell–Cell Interactions
6. The Cell Cycle

UNIT 3: Gene Structure and Expression

1. Meiosis
2. Mendel and the Gene
3. DNA and the Gene: Synthesis and Repair
4. How Genes Work
5. Transcription, RNA Processing, and Translation
6. Control of Gene Expression in Bacteria
7. Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes
8. The Molecular Revolution: Biotechnology, Genomics, and New Frontiers
9. Genes, Development, and Evolution

UNIT 4: Evolutionary Patterns and Processes

1. Evolution by Natural Selection
2. Evolutionary Processes
3. Speciation
4. Phylogenies and the History of Life

UNIT 5: The Diversification of Life

1. Bacteria and Archaea
2. Diversification of Eukaryotes
3. Green Algae and Land Plants
4. Fungi
5. An Introduction to Animals
6. Protostome Animals
7. Deuterostome Animals
8. Viruses

UNIT 6: How Plants Work

1. Plant Form and Function
2. Water and Sugar Transport in Plants
3. Plant Nutrition
4. Plant Sensory Systems, Signals, and Responses
5. Flowering Plant Reproduction and Development

UNIT 7: How Animals Work

1. Animal Form and Function
2. Water and Electrolyte Balance in Animals
3. Animal Nutrition
4. Gas Exchange and Circulation
5. Animal Nervous Systems
6. Animal Sensory Systems
7. Animal Movement
8. Chemical Signals in Animals
9. Animal Reproduction and Development
10. The Immune System in Animals

UNIT 8: Ecology

1. An Introduction to Ecology
2. Behavioral Ecology
3. Population Ecology
4. Community Ecology
5. Ecosystems and Global Ecology
6. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology