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Biology, 6/e
Author: Dr. George B. Johnson, Washington University
Author: Dr. Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Gardens & Washington University
Contributor: Dr. Susan Singer, Carleton College
Contributor: Dr. Jonathan Losos, Washington University


Supplements

Print Supplements:

  • Instructor's Manual
  • Student Study Guide
  • Classroom Testing Software
  • 800 Transparencies, including all the art from the textbook
  • Biological Investigations Laboratory Manual by Dolpin, 6/e; 2002: The 34 labs in this majors-level manual are investigative and ask students to use more critical thinking and hands-on learning. The author emphasizes investigative, quantitative, and comparative approaches to studying the life sciences.
  • Biology Laboratory Manual by Vodopich/Moore 6/e; 2002: The 50 experiments and procedures are simple, safe, easy to perform, and especially appropriate for large classes. Few experiments require a second class-meeting to complete the procedure. Each exercise includes many photographs, traditional topics, and experiments that help students learn about life. Procedures within each exercise are numerous and discrete so that an exercise can be tailored to the needs of the students, the style of the instructor, and the facilities available.

Digital Supplements


A New Multimedia Perspective
Technology now plays a greater role in providing you and your students with an abundance of multimedia resources. Take a look at the multimedia assets that are available with the sixth edition of Biology.

Online Learning Center
A multitude of tools awaits you on Biology's Online Learning Center. You'll want to take advantage of the electronic illustrations and photographs from the text; classroom activities; animations; labeling exercises; quizzing exercises; lecture outlines; and access to the PageOut: Course Website Development Center-all available anytime you want them. Simply visit auth.mhhe.com/raven6.

The Online Learning Center is home to over 200 animations of the most difficult concepts. Many of these animations are the same as those found on the Life Science Animations CD-ROM that you can use for classroom presentations. Having them on the OLC allows your students to access these animations at their convenience. In addition to animations, there are also more than 200 learning activities and simulations.

Media Resources
Located at the end of each chapter, these link to an abundance of chapter-related learning tools. It also organizes all of the technology support material for the student into correlation tables. These correlation tables enable students to see what is available on the Online Learning Center. The same correlation appears on the Online Learning Center and summarizes the material.

Real People Doing Real Science
An inquiry-based learning exercise was added at the beginning of every Part. It walks your students through the process of scientific inquiry by examining a particular experiment. Your students are then directed to the Online Learning Center for an in-depth examination of the experiment.

Net Tutor
Online tutorial help for your students.

Vectorized Art
Vectorized art files allow you to manipulate art and adapt figures to meet the needs of your lecture environment. These files are housed on the Online Learning Center and are also available on CD-ROM.

Flash Animations
Art taken directly from the book has been converted into Flash animations and then posted to the Online Learning Center to help bring life to difficult concepts.

Visual Resource Library images
The Visual Resource Library includes all of the photographs and illustrations from the textbook. These images are available on the Online Learning Center or a CD-ROM. Enhance your lectures with the availability of every piece of art and photo from the text. Pull them into your own PowerPoint or other presentation software, or use the prepared presentations that we have developed.

Life Science Animations
Over 200 animations for classroom presentations are available on CD or the Online Learning Center. These animations represent some of the most difficult concepts for students to grasp. You can pull these animations into your PowerPoint lecture presentation.

Course Integration Guide
The online Course Integration Guide helps you correlate all of the ancillary materials to the chapters in the book. It can be time-consuming to organize your chapter materials, so we have done the work for you. The Course Integration Guide lists each chapter's learning and presentation tools so that you know, at a glance, what tools are available to you.

Genomics Chapter
A new chapter on genomics is included on the Online Learning Center. It expands upon the discussion of gene technology to present and explain the advances now being made with genomics. Because the field of genomics is always advancing, we can keep the material up-to-date for you by placing it online. You and your students will always have the latest information at the click of a mouse.

Additional Technology-Related Teaching and Learning Aids

Interactive e-Text
The Interactive e-Text CD-ROM is an electronic version of the sixth edition of Biology. It offers students the same great content as the printed text with links to activities, animations, and quizzing for assistance with the most difficult concepts.

BioCourse.com
BioCourse.com BioCourse.com provides a comprehensive set of resources in one place that is up-to-date and easy to navigate. A link is on our OLC. Here is what you will find:

  • The Faculty Club includes teaching tips, classroom activities, reference searches, presentation tools, and much more.
  • The Student Center contains a wide range of materials to help biology
  • The Briefing Room offers instructors and students up-to-date news articles, a selection of background readings, and links to journal search tools and biology magazines.
  • BioLabs features materials for lab students and instructors, including equipment tutorials, lab support, and simulations.
  • The Quad is a powerful indexing tool and hierarchical outline of content resources for searching by students and faculty.
  • The R & D Center features our newest simulations, animations, and other teaching tools.

PageOut
More than 35,000 professors have chosen PageOut to create a course Website.

New features of the third release:

  • The PageOut Library offers instant access to fully loaded course Websites with no work required on your part.
  • Courses can now be password protected.
  • You can now upload, store, and manage up to 10MB of data.

Learn more about this powerful third release at auth.mhhe.com/solutions.

Primis Online
You can customize this text in print or electronic formats to meet your exact course needs. Through McGraw-Hill's Primis Online, simply select the chapters, their sequence, and supplement it with the many science items on our database. Visit auth.mhhe.com/primis/online to begin today.