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This product accompanies:
Belk & Borden Maier,  Biology: Science for Life with MasteringBiology®, 3/E

New To This Edition

The Second Edition of the Laboratory Manual has been thoroughly reorganized to accompany Belk & Borden, Biology: Science for Life 2/e and Biology: Science for Life with Physiology 2/e.

NEW Exercises for the Second Edition:

·         Topic 2, “Cells and Energy,” is entirely new.  It includes Exercises on the characteristics of life, the use of a light microscope, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure, homeostasis and the cell membrane, and the requirements for photosynthesis.

·         New Lab Exercise 6.1, “Extract and Examine DNA from Living Cells,” guides students through the extraction of DNA molecules from their own cheek cells.

·         New Lab Exercise 7.4, “Investigation and Regulation of Gene Expression,” explores the effect of temperature on Serratia marcescens bacteria.

·         New Lab Exercise 8.1, “Understanding Tree Diagrams,” uses a “family tree” analogy to familiarize students with the phylogenetic trees they will use throughout this Topic.

·         New Lab Exercise 14.1, “Gender Differences in Musculature,” adds another way for students to explore physiological differences between the sexes.

·         New Lab Exercise 17.1, “Explore Plant Structure,” guides students through the dissection of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit.

As with the First Edition, an annotated Instructor’s Edition (0-13-173373-7) includes materials and methods, pedagogical notes and strategies, sample data, answers to student manual questions, and pre-laboratory quizzes.

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• Symbiosis: The Pearson Custom Library for the Biological Sciences
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  ©2009  |  Benjamin Cummings  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
  ISBN-10: 0321625196  |  ISBN-13: 9780321625199
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  With Symbiosis: The Benjamin Cummings Custom Laboratory Program for the Biological Sciences, you can create an introductory and human biology, general biology, embryology, genetics, plant biology, biotechnology, zoology, ecology or microbiology custom laboratory manual that meets your content needs and course organization exactly.
  
  Using our online book-building system, you can view and select the Benjamin Cummings, Vernier, or Pearson Custom Publishing labs you need, in the sequence you want, at the price you want your students to pay. You have the option of publishing your own labs using illustrations from our online Lab Art Library at no additional charge. Add your own course notes and syllabi, or copyrighted material from other publishers: we handle all permissions.

  • NEW! Expanded selection of labs. Our Symbiosis online database now includes 36 lab manuals and collections covering nine different lab courses in the biological sciences.
  • NEW! Revised lab manuals by Heitz, Waterman/Stanley, and Morgan/Carter to accompany Campbell/Reece, Biology, 8/e.
  • NEW! Color printing of selected labs. Three lab manuals are now available for on-demand, full-color printing. These are Atsma/Hsu, Laboratory Manual for Human Biology, 4/e; Lammert, Techniques for Microbiology: A Student Handbook, 1/e; and Wistreich, Microbiology Laboratory Fundamentals and Applications, 2/e.
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