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Genetics Essentials

Concepts and ConnectionsFifth Edition| ©2021 Benjamin A. Pierce

The new edition of Genetics Essentials is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Similar in approach to Ben Pierce’s popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and popula...

The new edition of Genetics Essentials is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Similar in approach to Ben Pierce’s popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.

The new 5th edition continues this mission by expanding upon the powerful pedagogy and tools that have made this title so successful. New question types, more learning guidelines for students, and an updated art program round out a powerful text, and improvements to the online resources in Achieve give students the conceptual and problem solving understanding they need for success.

Achieve is Macmillan’s new online learning platform that 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 biology content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

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The essential concepts of genetics - now fully supported in Achieve.

The new edition of Genetics Essentials is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Similar in approach to Ben Pierce’s popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.

The new 5th edition continues this mission by expanding upon the powerful pedagogy and tools that have made this title so successful. New question types, more learning guidelines for students, and an updated art program round out a powerful text, and improvements to the online resources in Achieve give students the conceptual and problem solving understanding they need for success.

Achieve is Macmillan’s new online learning platform that 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 biology content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

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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 biology content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

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  • A design guided by learning science research. Co-designed through extensive collaboration and testing by both students and faculty including two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for every study of Achieve
  • A learning path of powerful content including pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities and assessments
  • A detailed gradebook with insights for just-in-time teaching and reporting on student achievement by learning objective.
  • Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions. 
  • Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.

New media and assessment features in Achieve include:

  • Assessment questions with hints, feedback, and solutions provide a powerful pedagogical framework to teach students problem solving skills through formative assessments
  • Adaptive Quizzes and Reading Quizzes can be assigned before class to encourage reading and pre-class preparation.
  • The Active Learning Hub with in-class activities contains slides and worksheets to help you easily implement more active learning in your classroom
  • Concept Mapping Problems allow students to learn through this effective method while still being automatically graded
  • Problem Solving Videos provide a step-by-step methodology for working through tough problems
  • Math readiness assignments allow for remediation of weak math skills that could hold students back in genetics

Genetics Essentials provides students with a strong foundation upon which to build their conceptual understanding of the field of genetics.

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    • Chapter opening stories to capture student interest
    • Concepts, Concepts Checks, Connecting Concepts, Chapter Summary
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    • Model Genetic Organism infographics are scattered throughout the book to familiarize students with the kinds of organisms used  in genetic research

New to This Edition

The 5th edition of Genetics Essentials is now supported in Achieve. 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 biology content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

Features of Achieve include:

  • A design guided by learning science research. Co-designed through extensive collaboration and testing by both students and faculty including two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for every study of Achieve
  • A learning path of powerful content including pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities and assessments.
  • A detailed gradebook with insights for just-in-time teaching and reporting on student achievement by learning objective.
  • Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions. 
  • Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.

New media and assessment features in Achieve include:

  • Assessment questions with hints, feedback, and solutions provide a powerful pedagogical framework to teach students problem solving skills through formative assessments
  • Adaptive Quizzes and Reading Quizzes can be assigned before class to encourage reading and pre-class preparation.
  • The Active Learning Hub with in-class activities contains slides and worksheets to help you easily implement more active learning in your classroom
  • Concept Mapping Problems allow students to learn through this effective method while still being automatically graded
  • Problem Solving Videos provide a step-by-step methodology for working through tough problems
  • Math readiness assignments allow for remediation of weak math skills that could hold students back in genetics

Updates to the text:

  • Connecting Problems allow students to connect concepts across chapters. These questions ask students to integrate what they have learned over several chapters, and to apply what they learned to problem solving.
  • Concept Mapping Exercises help students conceptually map out topics within a chapter, including key terms and describing how they are connected. Creating connections between concepts and ideas is critically important for effective learning. These new concept mapping exercises are designed to help students build understanding of the relationships among important concepts and terms by creating a visual map that depicts these relationships. These problems can be assigned as homework, or students can work on them in groups, allowing them to discuss how to organize the concepts in a map.
  • End-of-chapter Learning Objectives help frame the concepts covered in each section. A set of Learning Objectives, one for each A-head (followed by key concepts for that A-head), helps students identify the main learning goals for each chapter.

Genetics Essentials continues to stay on the cutting edge of genetics discoveries:

  1. More content on modifications of CRISPR-Cas systems and their various functions, such as making single-stranded cuts in DNA, making single base substitutions, altering cellular DNA, studying evolution, and inhibiting gene expression.
  2. Updated biotechnology in Chapter 14 to include third-generation sequencing technologies, such as PacBio and nanopore sequencing, and gene therapy.  This revision also pared-back coverage of outdated techniques such as locating DNA fragments with probes, genomic libraries, and pyrosequencing.
  3. Revised organization of epigenetics section in chapter 12. This section now moves from the molecular details of epigenetic modifications, to epigenetics in development, to epigenetics in behavior.
  4. New section on Interpreting Phylogenetic Trees in Chapter 18

"I think this is an excellent textbook.  It utilizes lots of sound pedagogy, is well-written (concise and easy to read, but explains essential content very well), and is reasonably priced."  --Margaret Nordlie, University of Mary

"It fits my needs better than any other "essentials" book I have used, and I have used them all.  Students give positive feedback." --Jill Buettner, Richland College

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Genetics Essentials

Fifth Edition| 2021

Benjamin A. Pierce

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Genetics
  2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction
  3. Basic Principles of Heredity
  4. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles
  5. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping
  6. Chromosome Variation
  7. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems
  8. DNA: The Chemical Nature of the Gene
  9. DNA Replication and Recombination
  10. From DNA to Proteins: Transcription and RNA Processing
  11. From DNA to Proteins: Translation
  12. Control of Gene Expression
  13. Gene Mutations, Transposable Elements, and DNA Repair
  14. Molecular Genetic Analysis and Biotechnology
  15. Genomics and Proteomics
  16. Cancer Genetics
  17. Quantitative Genetics
  18. Population and Evolutionary Genetics
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Benjamin Pierce is Professor of Biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he teaches courses in genetics and evolution. He previously taught at Connecticut College and Baylor University. Ben is a population geneticist who conducts ecological and evolutionary research on amphibians. He has authored a number of articles in research journals and several books, including The Family Genetics Sourcebook, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Genetics Essentials: Concepts and Connections, and Transmission and Population Genetics: A Short Course. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and is a fellow of the Texas Academy of Science. He has received grants from the Natural Science Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the 3M Foundation, the National Park Service, the Williamson County Conservation Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.

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