Genetics: A Conceptual Approach is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for biology students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including
assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and
assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

Achieve features:

• Achieve combines acclaimed automatically graded online homework with a powerful e-book and an extensive suite of engaging multimedia learning resources. Problems feature hints for when students get stuck, answer-specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes, and solutions to reinforce what they’ve learned.
• LearningCurve: Adaptive quizzing to get students prepared for class.
• Tutorial-style questions that walk students step by step through a problem
• Reading Quizzes to engage students as they prepare for class
• Nature articles (with assessment questions) embedded at key points in the text
• Problem Solving Videos - that demonstrates how to solve problems that mirror ones that appear in the EOC problem set
• VitalSource etext (can be accessed on- and off-line)
• Math readiness assignment - to help students brush up on key math and stats skills needed to be successful in genetics

Genetics: A Conceptual Approach provides students with a strong foundation upon which to build their conceptual understanding of the field of genetics.

• Conceptual Framework
• Student-friendly writing style
• Chapter opening stories to capture student interest
• Concepts, Concepts Checks, Connecting Concepts, Chapter Summary
• Learning Outcomes (new)
• Art and Media
• The art program has been revised to be more modern looking and more understandable for students.
• Animations (with assessment questions) are based on figures in the text and are included in Achieve.
• Powerful Assessment
• Connecting Questions (NEW) help students synthesize concepts from different chapters to understand the big picture. These new questions ensure that students get a bigger picture of the science of genetics and, much like real geneticists, learn to use information from different disciplines in genetics in problem-solving.
• Concept Mapping Questions available in the book and in Achieve ask students to build a visual representation of a topic.
• Worked Problems teach students a methodical approach to build the skills they need to become proficient problem solvers.
• End-of-chapter questions written by Ben Pierce are well aligned to the teaching method of the text and are organized by level of rigor.
• Support for Active Learning
• Active Learning Hub (NEW) with in class activities is now in Achieve. It contains powerpoints and worksheets to help you easily implement more active learning in your classroom.
• Think-Pair-Share exercises encourage students to work, and learn in groups.
• Model Genetic Organisms Appendix to familiarize students with the kinds of organisms used  in genetic research