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Principles of Life High School Edition

First Edition ©2012 David M. Hillis; David Sadava; H. Craig Heller; Mary V. Price

Principles of Life (POL) is the first book published to address the College Board’s AP* Biology redesign. Principles of Life emphasizes AP* Biology's four big ideas, helping students build enduring understanding around the essential knowledge skills.  The Princi...

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Principles of Life High School Edition by David M. Hillis; David Sadava; H. Craig Heller; Mary V. Price - First Edition, 2012 from Macmillan Student Store

Principles of Life (POL) is the first book published to address the College Board’s AP* Biology redesign. Principles of Life emphasizes AP* Biology's four big ideas, helping students build enduring understanding around the essential knowledge skills.  The Principles of Life program provides students with opportunities to apply concepts through data analysis and active learning, all in significantly fewer pages than other texts and at a much lower cost. With Principles of Life, you'll find: chapters organized around concepts, pedagogy to support these concepts, a focus on computational skills and data analysis, a textbook students will read, and invaluable supplements written by leaders in AP* Biology.  Principles of Life addresses the changes needed to meet the new course demands with an unsurpassed ancillary program. 

Features

OPENING STORY
Chapters capture student attention from the outset with a story that sets up an interesting question in a recognizable real-world context (How does caffeine work at the cell membrane?) Students revisit this question and its answer at the end of the chapter, having learned the necessary information to comprehend it.
 
KEY CONCEPTS
Each chapter is organized into sections, each of which explores a single essential concept in light of established facts and relevant experimental evidence. The following features support this conceptual approach:
• A Key Concepts list begins each chapter.
• Do You Understand the Concept? questions conclude each section, progressing from simple recall questions to questions that require critical thinking at higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Apply the Concept critical thinking exercises, embedded in the chapter, ask students to interpret data and draw conclusions. These exercises can be used in-class (e.g., with "clickers" or to stimulate class discussion) or assigned as homework.
• A Summary provides a thorough review of chapter content, including key figures, and directs students to relevant resources online.

RESEARCH TOOLS
Throughout Principles of Life, this feature focuses on techniques and quantitative methods scientists use to investigate biological systems.

INVESTIGATION
Investigation figures describe a key experiment’s hypothesis, methods, results, and conclusion.
• Analyze the Data are additional sections where students analyze real data from the experiments.
• Working with Data exercises turn these figures into in-class inquiry problems, discussions, or homework assignments. They contain associated questions and expanded materials that are available online.

LINKS
These cross-references show students the integrative nature of biology by referring them to a more thorough discussion of a key term elsewhere in the book.
 
TEACHABLE ART
Investigation figures describe a key experiment’s hypothesis, methods, results, and conclusion.
• Balloon Captions in the figures help students understand the story at a glance, without necessarily relying on the associated text.
 
FRONTIERS
In each chapter, these real-world applications of important concepts introduce students to fascinating ongoing avenues of research.
 

 

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Table of Contents

1. Principles of Life

PART 1. CELLS
2. Life Chemistry and Energy
3. Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes
4. Cells: The Working Units of Life
5. Cell Membranes and Signaling
6. Pathways that Harvest and Store Chemical Energy

 PART 2. GENETICS
7. The Cell Cycle and Cell Division
8. Inheritance, Genes and Chromosomes
9. DNA and its Role in Heredity
10. From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression
11. Regulation of Gene Expression
12. Genomes
13. Biotechnology
14. Genes, Development and Evolution

 PART 3. EVOLUTION
15.Mechanisms of Evolution
16.Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies
17.Speciation
18.The History of Life on Earth

 PART 4. DIVERSITY
19. Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses
20. The Origin & Diversification of Eukaryotes
21. The Evolution of Plants
22. The Evolution and Diversity of Fungi
23. Animal Origins and Diversity

 PART 5. PLANT FORM AND FUNCTION
24. The Plant Body
25. Plant Nutrition and Transport
26. Plant Growth and Development
27. Reproduction of Flowering Plants
28. Plants in the Environment

 PART 6. ANIMAL FORM AND FUNCTION
29. Physiology, Homeostasis, and Temperature Regulation
30. Animal Hormones
31. Immunology: Animal Defense Systems
32. Animal Reproduction
33. Animal Development
34. Neurons and Nervous Systems
35. Sensors
36. Musculoskeletal Systems
37. Gas Exchange in Animals
38. Circulatory Systems
39. Nutrition, Digestion, and Absorption
40. Salt and Water Balance and Nitrogen Excretion
41. Animal Behavior

 PART 7. ECOLOGY
42. Organisms in Their Environment
43. Populations
44. Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Species Interactions
45. Ecological Communities
46. The Global Ecosystem

David M. Hillis

David M. Hillis is the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also has directed the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Biodiversity Center, and the School of Biological Sciences. Dr. Hillis has taught courses in introductory biology, genetics, evolution, systematics, and biodiversity. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, and has served as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution and of the Society of Systematic Biologists. He served on the National Research Council committee that wrote the report BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Biology Education for Research Biologists, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Academies Scientific Teaching Alliance.

David E. Sadava

David E. Sadava is the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at the Keck Science Center of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps, three of The Claremont Colleges. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center. Twice winner of the Huntoon Award for superior teaching, Dr. Sadava has taught courses on introductory biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, plant biology, and cancer biology. In addition to Life: The Science of Biology, he is the author or coauthor of books on cell biology and on plants, genes, and crop biotechnology. His research has resulted in many papers coauthored with his students, on topics ranging from plant biochemistry to pharmacology of narcotic analgesics to human genetic diseases. For the past 15 years, he has investigated multi-drug resistance in human small-cell lung carcinoma cells with a view to understanding and overcoming this clinical challenge. At the City of Hope, his current work focuses on new anti-cancer agents from plants.

H. Craig Heller

H. Craig Heller is the Lorry I. Lokey/Business Wire Professor in Biological Sciences and Human Biology at Stanford University. He has taught in the core biology courses at Stanford since 1972 and served as Director of the Program in Human Biology, Chairman of the Biolo-gical Sciences Department, and Associate Dean of Research. Dr. Heller is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching and the Kenneth Cuthberson Award for Exceptional Service to Stanford University. His research is on the neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms, mammalian hibernation, the regulation of body temperature, the physiology of human performance, and the neurobiology of learning. He has done research on a huge variety of animals and physiological problems, including sleeping kangaroo rats, diving seals, hibernating bears, photo-periodic hamsters, and exercising athletes. Dr. Heller has extended his enthusiasm for promoting active learning via the development of a two-year curriculum in human biology for the middle grades, through the production of Virtual Labs—interactive computer-based modules to teach physiology.

Mary V. Price

Mary V. Price is Professor of Biology, Emerita, at the University of California, Riverside, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. In “retirement” she continues to teach, investigate, and publish. Dr. Price has taught, mentored, and published with students at all levels, and particularly enjoys leading field classes in the arid regions of North America and Australia, and the tropical forests of Central America, Africa, and Madagascar. Her research focuses on understanding not only the ecology of North American deserts and mountains, but also on how science really works.

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AP Biology Teacher's Tool Kit and Teacher's Resource Binder for Principles of Life High School Edition

David Hillis; David Sadava; Craig Heller; Mary Price | First Edition | ©2012 | ISBN:9781429291187
This comprehensive resource was developed by a team of well-known and well-respected College Board consultants.

Printed Test Bank for Principles of Life High School Edition

David Hillis | First Edition | ©2011 | ISBN:9781429291163
Questions in the AP-style are correlated to specific sections (concepts) of the book and include Bloom’s Taxonomy levels.

Teacher's Resource DVD for Principles of Life, High School Edition

David Hillis; David Sadava; Craig H. Heller; Mary V. Price | First Edition | ©2012 | ISBN:9781429292672
Includes all PowerPoint slides, textbook art, plus additional photos, videos and animations.