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With its distinctive investigative approach to learning, this effective laboratory manual encourages readers to become detectives of science. While teaching the basic materials and procedures important for all biology majors to learn, the authors also invite readers to pose hypotheses, make predictions, conduct open-ended experiments, collect data, and then apply the results to new problems. The result of this "process of science" approach is that readers learn to think creatively, just as scientists do. Laboratory exercises are divided into three categories: directed, thematic, and open-ended. For college instructors and students.
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New edition of a text that presents a laboratory curriculum designed to encourage participation in the scientific process. The exercises encourage students to ask questions, pose hypotheses, and make predictions before initiating laboratory work from which they can draw conclusions. The 27 chapters cover scientific investigation, enzymes, microscopes and cells, diffusion and osmosis, cellular respiration and fermentation, photosynthesis, mitosis and meiosis, Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, population genetics, bacteriology, protists and fungi, plant and animal diversity, plant anatomy and growth, vertebrate anatomy, animal development, ecology, and animal behavior. Contains a section of 68 color plates. Spiral binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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