Investigating Biology Laboratory Manual

Investigating Biology Laboratory Manual
Author: Judith Giles Morgan
Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Biology
ISBN: 9780321668219

With its distinctive investigative approach to learning, this best-selling laboratory manual encourages you to participate in the process of science and develop creative and critical reasoning skills. You are invited to pose hypotheses, make predictions, conduct open-ended experiments, collect data, and apply the results to new problems. The Seventh Edition emphasizes connections to recurring themes in biology, including structure and function, unity and diversity, and the overarching theme of evolution. Select tables from the lab manual are provided in Excel® format in MasteringBiology® at www.masteringbiology.com, allowing you to record data directly on their computer, process data using statistical tests, create graphs, and be prepared to communicate your results in class discussions or reports.

What is Life?

What is Life?
Author: Edward Regis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0195383419

This book provides an introduction to the work of the scientists who were attempting literally to create life from scratch, starting with molecular components that they hope to assemble into the world's first synthetic living cell. The book also examines how scientists have unlocked the "three secrets of life," describes the key role played by ATP ("the ultimate driving force of all life"), and outlines the many attempts to explain how life first arose on earth, a puzzle that has given birth to a wide range of theories.

Synthetic Aesthetics

Synthetic Aesthetics
Author: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 026201999X

As synthetic biology transforms living matter into a medium for making, what is the role of design and its associated values?

Why Study Biology by the Sea?

Why Study Biology by the Sea?
Author: Karl S. Matlin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022667293X

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the laboratory bench: How does life develop and how does it function? How are organisms that look different related, and what role does the environment play? From the Stazione Zoologica in Naples to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, the Amoy Station in China, or the Misaki Station in Japan, students and researchers at seaside research stations have long visited the ocean to investigate life at all stages of development and to convene discussions of biological discoveries. Exploring the history and current reasons for study by the sea, this book examines key people, institutions, research projects, organisms selected for study, and competing theories and interpretations of discoveries, and it considers different ways of understanding research, such as through research repertoires. A celebration of coastal marine research, Why Study Biology by the Sea? reveals why scientists have moved from the beach to the lab bench and back.

Investigating Biology

Investigating Biology
Author: Paul Luyster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792479076

There is much more to biology than memorizing facts in a textbook. The fun part of biology is actually doing it. This laboratory course is designed to help you develop the hands-on skills of biologist using the tools found in a typical, modern biology lab.

An Introduction to Using GIS in Marine Biology

An Introduction to Using GIS in Marine Biology
Author: Colin D. MacLeod
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2015-05-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781909832145

This book is the seventh companion volume to 'An Introduction To Using GIS In Marine Biology'. It is designed to augment the information on using GIS in marine biology provided in that book, and, indeed, to be used alongside it rather than to be used independently as a stand-alone volume. Therefore, this book will be of most interest to those who have already read 'An Introduction To Using GIS In Marine Biology'. This supplementary workbook contains five exercises covering the practical use of GIS in marine biology. These exercises aim to introduce marine biologists to using QGIS (or Quantum GIS), a freely-available, open-source GIS software package, and range from making a simple map of the locations where a species was recorded for inclusion in a publication, or presentation to creating grids of species presence-absence, richness and abundance, and grids of environmental variables. The exercises are designed to be followed in the order they are presented, and work with a specific data set which can be downloaded separately for free. Working through these five exercises will help the novice GIS user obtain experience in working with GIS and so develop their GIS skills. Unlike most other GIS tutorials, this information is specifically presented in a marine biological context and all the exercises use real data from a marine biological study. Therefore, these exercises are more likely to provide the kind of experience in using GIS that marine biologists will find useful and applicable to their own research. These exercises are presented in the same easy-to-follow flow diagram-based format first introduced in the 'How To...' section of 'An Introduction To Using GIS In Marine Biology'. They are accompanied by images which show the user how their GIS project should look as they progress through the exercises, allowing them to compare their own work to the expected results. This is part of the PSLS series of books which use Task-Oriented Learning (TOL) to teach the practical application of research skills to the life sciences. This involves demonstrating how these skills can be used in the specific circumstances in which they are likely to be required rather than concentrating on teaching theoretical frameworks or on teaching skills in a generic or abstract manner. By seeing how the similar processes are used to achieve a variety of different goals within a specific field, it becomes easier for the reader to identify the general rules behind the practical application of these processes and, therefore, to transfer them to novel situations they may encounter in the future.

A Handbook of Biological Investigation

A Handbook of Biological Investigation
Author: Harrison W. Ambrose
Publisher: Book Renter, Incorporated
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Biology
ISBN: 9780887253317

Rev. ed. of: Handbook of biological investigation / Harrison W. Ambrose III and Katharine Peckham Ambrose. 6th ed. c1995.

Biology

Biology
Author: Marielle Hoefnagels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2011-01-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780077443009