Publisher's Synopsis
This package contains Campbell's Biology 9th Edition, access to Mastering Biology, and access to all 5 Mastering Biology Virtual lab rooms.
Campbell's Biology 9th Edition is a Pearson Global Edition. The Pearson Editorial team worked closely with educators around the world to include content especially relevant to students outside of the United States.
Helping Students Make Connections Across Biology
Campbell BIOLOGY Global Edition is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text?s hallmark values?accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning?have made it the most successful introductory biology book for eight consecutive editions.
Building on the Key Concepts chapter framework of previous editions, Campbell BIOLOGY Global Edition helps students keep sight of the ?big picture? by encouraging them to:
- Make connections across chapters in the text, from molecules to ecosystems, with new Make Connections Questions
- Make connections between classroom learning, research breakthroughs, and the real world with new Impact Figures
- Make connections to the overarching theme of evolution in every chapter with new Evolution sections
- Make connections at a higher cognitive level through new Summary of Key Concepts Questions and Write About a Theme Questions
- Make connections outside of class withMasteringBiology®, the most widely-used online assessment and tutorial program for biology
Campbell BIOLOGY Global Edition makes biology more globally relevant through:
- Significant new material in the diversity and ecology units, contributed by educators from around the globe.
- International examples and photos, replacing some North American ones
- Interviews with prominent international biologists, replacing some of the North American interviews
MasteringBiology® Virtual Labs
The book comes with an access code to MasteringBiology® and MasteringBiology® Virtual Labs.
The MasteringBiology® Virtual Labs online environment promotes critical thinking skills using virtual experiments and explorations that may be difficult to perform in a wet lab environment due to time, cost, or safety concerns.
- MasteringBiology® Virtual Labs offer unique learning experiences in the areas of microscopy, molecular biology, genetics, ecology, and systematics.
- Choose from 20?30 automatically-graded, "pre-set" lab activities that are ready-to-assign to students, or create your own from scratch.
- Each "pre-set" lab provides an assignable lab report with questions that are automatically graded and recorded in the MasteringBiology gradebook.
