Components

Student Edition
Units focus on six primary biological principles:

• Matter, Energy, and Organization
• Evolution
• The Cell: Homeostasis and Development
• Responding to the Environment
• Heredity: Continuity of Life
• Interactions and Interdependence

The new 8th edition includes updated material on genetics and over 60 laboratory investigations.

Teacher's Annotated Edition
is a fully annotated version of the Student Edition, providing additional background detail information, resources, teaching strategies, laboratory guidelines, and answers to the chapter questions in the Student Edition.

Teacher's Resource Book
contains valuable supplemental teaching materials that complement the Student Edition.

Supplemental Topics provide opportunities to enhance student learning through classroom discussion

Extended Laboratory Activities supplement the lab investigations in the Student Edition

Current Literature presents articles from Science magazine that provide opportunities for enrichment, classroom discussion, and readings

Research Problems offer suggested topics for independent laboratory research

Blackline Masters allow for the creation of student handouts and teaching transparencies with reproduction of text art and diagrams

Student Logbook
is new to the 8th edition, is a 300-page composition book that allows students to record laboratory observations, data, and results.

Overhead Transparencies
package contains color reproductions of key illustrations found in the Student Edition, graphics that are not found in the text, and a collection of transparencies designed to aid in the teaching of concept mapping.

Exam View® Pro Software Generated Assessment
comes with preprinted copies of exams and Win/Mac CD allowing for custom generation of chapter exams.