Biology: A Global Approach, Global Edition

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Biology: A Global Approach delivers a trusted, accurate, current, and pedagogically innovative experience that guides students to a true understanding of biology. The author team advances Neil Campbells vision of meeting and equipping students at their individual skill levels by developing tools, visuals, resources, and activities that encourage participation and engage students in their learning. Known for strategically integrating text and artwork, this trusted course solution works hand in hand with Mastering Biology to reinforce key concepts, build scientific skills, and promote active learning. The 12th Edition meets demonstrated student needs with new student-centered features, expanded interactivity in the eText, and fully revised assessment program.

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Biology: A Global Approach, Global Edition, 12^th Edition is the latest version of the ultimate text in the field coming from a leading team of authors, advancing Neil Campbell' s vision of delivering an accurate and pedagogically innovative experience.

This latest version reflects the most recent developments in the field, with hallmark and new features that introduce content, interactive tools, and activities aiming to help you organise a vast amount of information and make complex concepts more accessible, engaging, and exciting.

Well-known for strategically integrating text and artwork, the textbook encourages you to build your individual learning skills and the confidence to participate in group discussions and assignments, inviting you to an active process of inquiry and learning.

Hallmark and new features include:

• Chapter Openers: A question answered with a clear, simple image to help you visualise and remember concepts as you move through the chapter.
• Evolution sections: A focus on the evolutionary aspects of the chapter material, ending with questions and writing assignments.
• Key Concepts: Provide anorganisation of the framework for each chapter, reinforcing your understanding of the topics.
• Science in the Classroom: Annotated journal articles from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

With engaging content and a plethora of digital and interactive tools, this leading textbook is the trusted course solution in the field, ensuring you get a pedagogical yet enjoyable learning experience.

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1. Biology and Its Themes

1. Atoms and Molecules
2. The Chemistry of Water
3. Carbon: The Basis of Molecular Diversity
4. Biological Macromolecules and Lipids
5. Energy and Life

1. Cell Structure and Function
2. Cell Membranes
3. Cellular Signaling
4. Cell Respiration
5. Photosynthetic Processes
6. Mitosis

1. Sexual Life Cycles and Meiosis
2. Mendelian Genetics
3. Linkage and Chromosomes
4. Nucleic Acids and Inheritance
5. Expression of Genes
6. Control of Gene Expression
7. DNA Technology
8. The Evolution of Genomes

1. How Evolution Works
2. Phylogenetic Reconstruction
3. Microevolution
4. Species and Speciation
5. Macroevolution

1. Introduction to Viruses
2. Prokaryotes
3. The Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotes
4. Nonvascular and Seedless Vascular Plants
5. Seed Plants
6. Introduction to Fungi
7. An Introduction to Animal Diversity
8. Invertebrates
9. Vertebrates

1. Plant Structure and Growth
2. Transport in Vascular Plants
3. Plant Nutrition
4. Reproduction of Flowering Plants
5. Plant Signals and Behavior

1. The Animal Body
2. Chemical Signals in Animals
3. Animal Digestive Systems
4. Animal Transport Systems
5. Animal Excretory Systems
6. Animal Reproductive Systems
7. Development in Animals
8. Animal Defenses Against Infection
9. Electrical Signals in Animals
10. Neural Regulation in Animals
11. Sensation and Movement in Animals

1. An Overview of Ecology
2. Behavioral Ecology
3. Populations and Life History Traits
4. Biodiversity and Communities
5. Energy Flow and Chemical Cycling in Ecosystems
6. Conservation and Global Ecology