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Scientific American Biology for a Changing World

Third Edition ©2018 Michele Shuster; Janet Vigna; Matthew Tontonoz

From the groundbreaking partnership of Macmillan Learning and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its impact on the way we live.

In Biology for a Changing World, two experienced educators and a science journalist ex...

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Real stories. Real biology.

From the groundbreaking partnership of Macmillan Learning and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its impact on the way we live.

In Biology for a Changing World, two experienced educators and a science journalist explore the core ideas of biology through chapters written and illustrated in the style of a Scientific American article. Chapters don’t just feature compelling stories of real people—each chapter is a newsworthy story that serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors biology course. Updated throughout, the new edition offers new stories, enhanced plant and diversity coverage, and an expanded media program.

Biology for a Changing World is supported by its own dedicated (and fully updated) version of LaunchPad, which fully integrates an interactive e-Book, all student media, a wide range of assessment and course management features.

Features

Each chapter of Biology for a Changing World is written in the style of a Scientific American article. This story-based approach grabs student interest and teaches the relevance of biology and why it matters to students.

Biology for a Changing World is supported by its own dedicated version of LaunchPad—Macmillan’s breakthrough online course space which fully integrates an interactive e-Book, all student media, a wide range of assessment and course management features, in a clean interface where power and simplicity go hand in hand.

Engaging and informative Infographics are used throughout the book. These powerful pieces of art teach students how to learn from charts, graphs, and images, and add visual appeal to the science. Many of the infographics are animated with corresponding quiz questions in LaunchPad.

Milestone mini-chapters highlight historically important discoveries in biology. These present biology as a living science by teaching students how we know what we know, and prompting them to consider how future research will expand our understanding of biology.

Driving Questions provide the pedagogical framework for the chapter material by prompting students to consider the questions they need to be able to answer to have a full understanding of the material.

End-of-chapter questions, each written by Michele Shuster, are framed around the chapter’s Driving Questions; each EOC set includes Interpreting Data, Mini-Case, and Bring It Home questions to help students develop higher-order thinking skills.

Learning Curve: Put "testing to learn" into action. Based on research, LearningCurve really works: Game-like quizzing motivates students and adapts to their needs based on their performance. It is the perfect tool to get them to engage before class, and review after! Additional reporting tools and metrics help teachers get a handle on what their class knows and doesn’t know.

New to This Edition

Expanded media program

• Selected questions from the End-of-Chapter materials (written by Michele Shuster) are now assignable in Launchpad, including Interpreting Data activities that ask students to analyze data in tables, charts, or graphs and draw their own conclusions about their meaning

• Active Learning Lesson Plans for every chapter include PowerPoint slides, clicker questions, and student worksheets

• Scientific American content (including articles, podcasts, and videos) integrated into assignable activities for every chapter

• All media content is now tagged to Blooms, Driving Questions, and Learning Objectives

Enhanced plant & diversity coverage

• New two-chapter plant unit:

• Plant Growth & Reproduction (new chapter)

• Plant Physiology (new to the "without Physiology" version)

Each unit features at least one Milestone highlight of an historical important discovery. New to this edition:

• Shaking the Tree: A revised view of eukaryotic diversity may be the key to tackling deadly diseases

New Chapter Stories

• The Sitting Disease: Understanding the causes and consequences of obesity

(Ch. 6, Dietary Energy)

• Bulletproof: Scientists hope to spin spider silk into the next indestructible super-fiber (Ch. 8, Genes to Proteins)

• Can rubber save the rainforest? A small state in Brazil aims to find out. (Ch. 18, Eukaryotic Diversity)

• Plants 2.0: Is genetic engineering the solution to world hunger? (Ch. 24, Plant Growth & Reproduction)

New Infographic Question

  • Each Infographic now includes a thought-provoking question at the end to reinforce the science in the student’s mind

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Table of Contents

UNIT 1 What Is Life Made Of? Chemistry, Cells, Energy

Chapter 1

Process of Science

Java Report

Making sense of the latest buzz in health-related news

Chapter 2

Chemistry of Life

Mission to Mars

Prospecting for life on the red planet

Chapter 3

Cell Structure and Function

Wonder Drug

How a chance discovery in a London laboratory revolutionized medicine

M1 Milestones in Biology

Scientific Rebel

Lynn Margulis and the theory of endosymbiosis

Chapter 4

Nutrition, Enzymes, Metabolism

The Peanut Butter Project

One doctor’s crusade to end malnutrition in Africa, one spoonful at a time

Chapter 5

Energy and Photosynthesis

The Future of Fuel?

Scientists seek to make algae into the next alternative energy source

Chapter 6

Dietary Energy and Cellular Respiration

New Story! The Sitting Disease

Understanding the causes and consequences of obesity

　

UNIT 2 How Does Life Reproduce? Cell Division and Inheritance

Chapter 7

DNA Structure and Replication

Biologically Unique

How DNA helped free an innocent man

M2 Milestones in Biology

The Model Makers

Watson, Crick, and the structure of DNA

Chapter 8

Genes to Proteins

New Story! Bulletproof

Scientists hope to spin spider silk into the next indestructible super-fiber

M3 Milestones in Biology

Sequence Sprint

Venter and Collins race to decode the human genome

Chapter 9

Cell Cycle and Cell Differentiation

Grow Your Own

Is regenerative medicine the solution to organ transplantation?

Chapter 10

Mutations and Cancer

Fighting Fate

When cancer runs in the family, ordinary measures are not enough

Chapter 11

Simple Inheritance and Meiosis

Catching Breath

One woman’s mission to outrun a genetic disease

M4 Milestones in Biology

Mendel’s Garden

An Austrian monk lays the foundation for modern genetics

Chapter 12

Complex Inheritance

Q&A Genetics

Complexities of human genetics, from sex to depression

 

UNIT 3 How Does Life Change over Time? Evolution and Diversity

Chapter 13

Natural Selection and Adaptation

Bugs that Resist Drugs

Drug-resistant bacteria are on the rise. Can we stop them?

M5 Milestones in Biology

Adventures in Evolution

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on the trail of natural selection

Chapter 14

Nonadaptive Evolution and Speciation

Urban Evolution

How cities are altering the fate of species

Chapter 15

Evidence for Evolution

A Fish With Fingers?

A transitional fossil fills a gap in our knowledge of evolution

Chapter 16

Life on Earth

Q&A Evolution

From moon rocks to DNA, clues to the history of life on Earth

Chapter 17

Prokaryotic Diversity

Lost City

Exploring life’s origins at the bottom of the sea

Chapter 18

Eukaryotic Diversity

New Story! Can Rubber Save the Rainforest?

A small state in Brazil aims to find out.

M6 Milestones in Biology

New! Shaking the Tree

A revised view of eukaryotic diversity may be the key to tackling deadly diseases

Chapter 19

Human Evolution

Skin Deep

Science redefines the meaning of racial categories

 

UNIT 4 How Do Organisms Interact? Ecology

Chapter 20

Population Ecology

On the Tracks of Wolves and Moose

Ecologists learn big lessons from a small island

Chapter 21

Community Ecology

What’s Happening to Honey Bees?

A mysterious ailment threatens a vital link in the food chain

Chapter 22

Ecosystem Ecology

The Heat Is On

From migrating maples to shrinking sea ice, signs of a warming planet

M7 Milestones in Biology

Progress or Poison?

Rachel Carson, pesticides, and the birth of the environmental movement

Chapter 23

Sustainability

The Makings of a Green City

One Kansas town reinvents itself sustainable

Physiology Chapters

 

Unit 5 What Makes Plants Unique? Plant Biology

Plant coverage now in two chapters

Chapter 24

Plant Growth and Reproduction

New Story! Plants 2.0

Is genetic engineering the solution to world hunger?

Chapter 25

Plant Physiology

Q&A Plants

Exploding seeds, carnivorous flowers, and other colorful adaptations of the plant world

Michele Shuster

Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning and teaches introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level, as well as working on several K–12 science education programs. Michèle is involved in mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in effective teaching, preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Westhafer Award for Teaching Excellence at NMSU. Michèle received her Ph.D. from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.

Janet Vigna

Janet Vigna, Ph.D., is a professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She is a science education specialist in the Integrated Science Program, training and mentoring K–12 science teachers. Janet has 18 years of undergraduate teaching experience, with a special interest in teaching biology effectively to nonmajors. She has recently been recognized with the GVSU Outstanding Teacher Award. Her scholarly interests include biology curriculum development, the effective use of digital media in science education, and research on the effects of biological pesticides on amphibian communities. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa.

Matthew Tontonoz

Matthew Tontonoz is a science writer and independent scholar living in Brooklyn, New York. For ten years, he was a development editor for textbooks in biology before shifting his focus to writing. He is currently senior science writer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he covers advances in basic science and clinical cancer research. Matt received his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University and his M.A. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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