New and Updated for the Fifth Edition:

• Visualization and Applications
• Updated Visuals and Data:
• New or revised infographics across chapters (e.g., 1.6, 4.1–4.8, 10.10, 18.1, 22.6, 23.3–23.13, 30.1, 32.1).
• Revised tables and figures covering diverse biology topics from human health to biodiversity.
• New Writing-to-Learn Activities encourage students to apply knowledge and interpret data through graphs as well as explain their answer in short form writing.
• Interactive Animation Activities
• Real World Simulations focus on the most challenging concepts in a non-majors biology course. These scaffolded, interactive lessons help students apply the principles they have learned from the text or lecture in the context of a relevant “real life” question or familiar scenario.
• Personalized Study and Assessment uses a Socratic approach to help students work through homework problems, so they build understanding step by step.
• AI Student Tutor uses a Socratic approach to help students work through homework problems, so they build understanding step by step.
• Adaptive Quizzing adjusts to each student’s pace, reinforcing understanding through personalized practice.
• Active Learning Resources and Tools with Achieve for instructors and students.
• iClicker is included embed iClicker slides into lecture slide decks to provide easy pause points for student participation during lecture. Available for all 32 chapters and 9 milestones.
• New Active Lecture Slides embed iClicker slides into lecture slide decks to provide easy pause points for student participation during lecture. Available for all 32 chapters and 9 milestones.
• In-Class Activities. Structured plan to facilitate an activity that encourages student engagement in both face-to-face and remote learning courses. Each guide is based on a single topic and allows students to participate through questions, group work, presentations, and/or simulations.
• Easy Course Management and Planning
• Learning Objectives have been updated to match content changes in the text and are tagged on all questions.
• Over 3600 New Test Bank questions added to the Achieve Question Library.
• New and Updated Book Content:
• New Chapter Stories:
• Ch. 2 – “Are We Alone?” featuring the James Webb Space Telescope and the search for extraterrestrial life.
• Ch. 4 – “Supplementing Science” on the evolving science behind dietary supplements.
• Ch. 6 – “The Art and Science of Fermented Foods.”
• Ch. 7 – “A Crime Solved” about Tyrone Day’s wrongful imprisonment overturned by DNA evidence.
• Ch. 27 – “Digestive Deception” discussing chemical additives and weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
• New Milestone Chapter: Milestone 4 features Ernest Everett Just and his pioneering work in epigenetics.
• Expanded COVID-19 Coverage (Ch. 32): Includes comparisons with the 1918 flu, vaccine development and hesitancy, and how mRNA vaccines work.
• Writing has been updated to be more representative and promote a sense of belonging.