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Instructors consistently ask for a textbook that helps students understand the relationships between the main concepts of biology, so they are not learning facts about biology in isolation. Mader’s Concepts of Biology was developed to fill this void. Organized around the main themes of biology, Concepts of Biology guides students to think conceptually about biology and the world around them. Just as the levels of biological organization flow from one level to the next, themes and topics in Concepts of Biology are tied to one another throughout the chapter, and between the chapters and parts. Combined with Dr. Mader’s hallmark writing style, exceptional art program, and pedagogical framework, difficult concepts become easier to understand and visualize, allowing students to focus on understanding how the concepts are related.

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• The Mader Story: Sylvia Mader is the subject matter expert and learning system architect in one. Dr. Mader represents the student by paging the book and striking the proper balance of art, photo, text, and application. Sylvia has taught millions of non-majors students the language of biology. Her in-class teaching experience is what led Sylvia to making the time to design her text layout specifically to the non-majors market. This new concepts level text with its traditional approach was designed specifically for the science shy non-majors student. With its legendary straightforward, succinct and concise writing style and market leading art program, Mader: Concepts stands apart from other non-majors biology texts. This new Mader text appropriately connects the concepts of biology together for the non-majors audience through relevant examples and analogies that apply to the student’s everyday lives for a deeper understanding.

• Relationships Between Concepts Are Emphasized. The content in Mader's Concepts of Biology is organized around the main themes of biology (Cells, Genes, Evolution, Homeostasis, and Ecology), and relationships among the concepts are highlighted in several key ways: careful transitions between the sections, chapters, and parts; the Connecting the Concepts feature at the end of each chapter that ties together the concepts of the chapter and explains how they relate to the concepts of the next chapter; and the Biological Viewpoints feature at the end of each Part that gives students a take-home message about the major concepts of the Part.

• Learning System. The pedagogical tools in Concepts of Biology were developed to help students organize the content and to further the goal of showing relationships among concepts. A short reading opens the chapter and engages students with interesting information that they may not readily know. The information is tied to the concepts that will be covered in the chapter. Learning Outcomes give students a snapshot of the key concepts they will need to understand, and the outcomes are referred to throughout the chapter. Within the chapter, full-phrase headings are used to clearly capture the main concepts. An introduction at the beginning of each main section orients students to the material that follows. Check Your Progress questions appear at the end of each section so students can self-assess how well they understood the material, and when effective, the questions relate back to the chapter-opening reading to help students relate the concepts to an example. Each chapter ends with an illustrated, bulleted summary, and review questions. The review questions include multiple-choice questions and open-ended, critical thinking questions organized by the main headings of the chapter to help students more efficiently organize their study.

• Relevancy. Two types of readings appear periodically in each chapter--How Biology Impacts Our Lives and How Science Progresses—to present concepts in the context of real-life events. In addition, analogies, a strength of Dr. Mader’s writing style, aid students in understanding difficult concepts.

• Writing Style. Continuing with the Mader tradition, reviewers tout the writing style of Concepts of Biology as logical, easy to read, and at a level appropriate to the non-major student.

• Art Program. The artwork in Mader’s Concepts of Biology is dynamic and dimensional to engage students. Some of the key features include: clarity and effectiveness of presentation, consistent use of color, inclusion of figures with multi-level perspective (macroscopic to microscopic), use of process figures to break down complex processes, and placement of all art and photos on the same page as the associated text.

• Media: Teaching and Learning with Technology. Mader’s Concepts of Biology is accompanied by a vast array of electronic teaching and learning tools, including animations and videos with quizzing, pre-tests, practice quizzes, post-tests, and on-line labs. The ARIS website for Concepts of Biology is organized by the main headings in the textbook to further help students build upon the learning outcomes in the textbook and assess performance. Presentation Center - Build instructional materials wherever, whenever, and however you want! Presentation Center is an online digital library containing assets such as photos, artwork, animations, PowerPoints, and other types of media that can be used to create customized lectures, visually enhanced tests and quizzes, compelling course websites, or attractive printed support materials. Access to your book, access to all books! This ever-growing resource gives instructors the power to utilize assets specific to their adopted textbook as well as content from other McGraw-Hill books in the library. Presentation Center's dynamic search engine allows you to explore by discipline, course, textbook chapter, asset type, or keyword. Simply browse, select, and download the files you need to build engaging course materials. All assets are copyrighted by McGraw-Hill Higher Education but can be used by instructors for classroom purposes. McGraw-Hill's ARIS – Assessment, Review, and Instruction System is a complete, online tutorial, electronic homework, and course management system, designed for greater ease of use than any other system available. For students, ARIS contains self-study tools such as animations, interactive quizzes, and more. This program enables students to complete their homework online, as assigned by their instructors. ARIS provides all instructor resources online, as well provides the ability to create or edit questions from the question bank, import your own content, and automatically grade and report easy-to-assign homework, quizzing, and testing. Go to www.aris.mhhe.com to learn more.

• Full-Color Customization. Professors have the option of creating a customized version of the text by selecting only the chapters they cover in lecture, providing students with significant savings in book costs. Customization can occur in two ways: -- Chapter-by-chapter color customized printed book or a full-color Primis eBook.

• Mader begins each chapter with a high interest opening essay which previews some of the major ideas within the chapter in an interesting and engaging manner.
• Mader includes sections entitled How Biology Impacts Our Lives one or more times in every chapter.
• Mader uses her Connecting The Concepts feature and Biological Viewpoints to help students understand the big picture.

• Mader writes in a clear, easy to follow way making sure to always place key terms in a definitional sentence. Check Your Progress boxes follow every concept and all of the end of chapter study tools is keyed to the chapter study outline.
• Mader uses Learning outcomes to provide a chapter overview and define the most important concepts and themes within each chapter.
• The Mader art program was specifically designed for the non-major level student and is based upon her 30+ years of experience writing for non-majors. The art is clear, accurate, stepped out when needed, tied back to numbered statements in the narrative and designed to present well in PowerPoint.

• The Mader text often describes scientific studies in the opening vignettes as well as throughout the narrative.
• In addition each chapter has a feature called “How Science Progress.”

作者簡介

Dr. Sylvia Mader is the best-selling author of introductory biology textbooks. Other books she has authored for WCB include: Inquiry Into Life, Human Biology, Introduction to Biology, and Understanding Human Anatomy & Physiology.

目次

Chapter 1: Biology is the Study of Life

Part I: Organisms are Composed of Cells
Chapter 2: Basic Chemistry and Cells
Chapter 3: Organic Molecules and Cells
Chapter 4: Structure and Function of Cells
Chapter 5: Dynamic Activities of Cells
Chapter 6: Pathways of Photosynthesis
Chapter 7: Pathways of Cellular Respiration

Part II: Genes Control the Traits of Organisms
Chapter 8: Cell Division and Reproduction
Chapter 9: Patterns of Genetic Inheritance
Chapter 10: Molecular Biology of Inheritance
Chapter 11: Regulation of Gene Activity
Chapter 12: Biotechnology and Genomics

Part III: Organisms are Related and Adapted to their Environment
Chapter 13: Darwin and Evolution
Chapter 14: Speciation and Evolution
Chapter 15: The History and Classification of Life on Earth
Chapter 16: Evolution of Microbial Life
Chapter 17: Evolution of Protists
Chapter 18: Evolution of Plants and Fungi
Chapter 19: Evolution of Animals
Chapter 20: Evolution of Humans

Part IV: Plants are Homeostatic
Chapter 21: Plant Organization and Homeostasis
Chapter 22: Nutrition and Transport in Plants
Chapter 23: Regulation of Growth and Responses in Plants
Chapter 24: Reproduction and Development of Plants

Part V:  Animals are Homeostatic
Chapter 25: Animal Organization and Homeostasis
Chapter 26: Coordination by Neural Signaling
Chapter 27: Sense Organs
Chapter 28: Locomotion and Support Systems
Chapter 29: Circulation and Cardiovascular Systems
Chapter 30: Lymph Transport and Immunity
Chapter 31: Digestive Systems and Nutrition
Chapter 32: Gas Exchange and Transport in Animals
Chapter 33: Osmoregulation and Excretion
Chapter 34: Coordination by Hormone Signaling
Chapter 35: Reproduction and Development

Part VI: Organisms Live in Ecosystems
Chapter 36: Population Ecology
Chapter 37: Behavioral Ecology
Chapter 38: Community and Ecosystem Ecology
Chapter 39: Major Ecosystems of the Biosphere
Chapter 40: Conservation of Biodiversity