Download or read book Nature of Biology written by Judith Kinnear and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature of Biology Book 2 3E is a comprehensive textbook resource written specifically to meet all requirements of units 3 and 4 of the VCE Biology Study Design. Nature of Biology Book 1 3E covers units 1 and 2 of the study design. The popular elements of previous editions are retained, and new features are introduced to engage students interest and ensure their understanding of biological concepts is developed clearly over the two years of study. Features New chapter introductions that relate topics to real and contemporary contexts High-quality, clearly labelled illustrations and unique images that bring the text to life and encourage discussion Australian case studies, personal stories and an expanded range of 'Biologist at work' profiles regular sets of 'Key ideas' and 'Quick-check' questions to test understanding of the key knowledge points New 'Biochallenge' pages that focus on applying knowledge in response to visual stimuli and data 'Chapter review' questions that specify the relevant key skills and include links to website to encourage further research Nature of Biology Book 2 3E is now supported by eBookPLUS! What is eBookPLUS? Nature of Biology Book 2 3E eBookPLUS is an electronic version of the textbook and a complementary set of targeted digital resources. These flexible and engaging ICT activities are available to you online at the jacarandaPLUS website (www.jacplus.com.au). Your eBookPLUS resources include: HTML links to other useful support material on the internet Word documents designed for easy customisation and editing interactive activities and a wealth of ICT resources

Download or read book Nature of Biology 1 5E VCE Units 1 and 2 and EBookPLUS written by Judith Kinnear and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature of Biology 1, 5th Edition, VCE Units 1 and 2 provides comprehensive coverage of the new VCE Study Design for 2016-2021. It includes Jacaranda's unique exam preparation tool, studyON, which has been fully integrated with the text to maximise every student's opportunity for exam success. Features and benefits * New HTML5 interactivities are available. These are designed to engage, excite and enhance understanding by bringing difficult concepts to life.

Download or read book Nature of Biology text written by Judith Kinnear and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YEAR 11 Nature of Biology Book 1 second edition provides full coverage for Year 11 of the VCE Biology course. Its full-colour format presents the latest material on Biology written by leading biologists, Marjory Martin and Judith Kinnear. Full coverage of the VCE Biology course - spiced with curious facts and topical information to sustain students' interest. All material in these editions of Nature of Biology has been reviewed extensively by teachers. Full colour format with stunning photos and illustrations. All-Australian case studies of background material. Diverse range of contexts to demonstrate the application of concepts. Challenging questions with answers supplied. Technology in a range of biological settings. A reading level that will cater for all students abilities. Updated student activity manuals and teacher resource materials.

Download or read book Reading Nature written by Matthew Kloser and published by National Science Teachers Association. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By making room for this book in your curriculum, you' ll have a fresh way to motivate your students to look at the living world and ask not only " Why?" but also " How do we know?" Unique in both its structure and approach, Reading Nature is a supplemental resource that provides a window into science ideas and practices. You' ll find the book useful because it * Draws on carefully selected peer-reviewed articles so that students have an opportunity for text-based inquiry into scientific investigations. Each of these evidence-based texts ties into one of five disciplinary core ideas in the Next Generation Science Standards-- from molecules to organisms, ecosystems, heredity, biological evolution, and human impacts on Earth systems. * Is organized to make the source material easy for students to grasp and for you to teach. Within each of the book' s five chapters, the authors have framed section headings as questions; highlighted the roles of people in the narrative; offered context and relevant data for the investigations; and provided supplementary teacher questions and prompts. * Can be adapted to your needs as an active tool for inquiry. You may use the various texts in the book to introduce a unit or an investigation or to pull ideas together before a summative assessment. The texts are also useful as extensions of existing ideas. Unlike traditional textbooks, Reading Nature makes it clear that biology is much more than dry facts and complicated vocabulary. It can help you prompt students to think deeply about the " endeavor of science" as it truly is-- full of ingenious experiments, frustrating dead ends, and incredible finds that contribute to our understanding of the amazing phenomena of living things.

Download or read book Jacaranda Nature of Biology 2 VCE Units 3 and 4 LearnON and Print written by Judith Kinnear and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacaranda Nature of Biology Victoria's most trusted VCE Biology online and print resource The Jacaranda Nature of Biology series has been rewritten for the VCE Biology Study Design (2022-2026) and offers a complete and balanced learning experience that prepares students for success in their assessments by building deep understanding in both Key Knowledge and Key Science Skills. Prepare students for all forms of assessment Preparing students for both the SACs and exam, with access to 1000s of past VCAA exam questions (now in print and learnON), new teacher-only and practice SACs for every Area of Study and much more. Videos by experienced teachers Students can hear another voice and perspective, with 100s of new videos where expert VCE Biology teachers unpack concepts, VCAA exam questions and sample problems. For students of all ability levels All students can understand deeply and succeed in VCE, with content mapped to Key Knowledge and Key Science Skills, careful scaffolding and contemporary case studies that provide a real-word context. eLogbook and eWorkBook Free resources to support learning (eWorkbook) and the increased requirement for practical investigations (eLogbook), which includes over 80 practical investigations with teacher advice and risk assessments. For teachers, learnON includes additional teacher resources such as quarantined questions and answers, curriculum grids and work programs.

Download or read book Nature of Biology written by Judith Kinnear and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accompanies the Nature of Biology textbook and activity manual and supports the teaching of VCE Biology Units 1 and 2. It provides a quick and easy reference for teachers planning their activities, and provides responses for the test-your-knowledge and skills section of the textbook.

Download or read book The Principles of Biology written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chance in Biology written by Mark Denny and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a chancy proposition: from the movement of molecules to the age at which we die, chance plays a key role in the natural world. Traditionally, biologists have viewed the inevitable "noise" of life as an unfortunate complication. The authors of this book, however, treat random processes as a benefit. In this introduction to chance in biology, Mark Denny and Steven Gaines help readers to apply the probability theory needed to make sense of chance events--using examples from ocean waves to spiderwebs, in fields ranging from molecular mechanics to evolution. Through the application of probability theory, Denny and Gaines make predictions about how plants and animals work in a stochastic universe. Is it possible to pack a variety of ion channels into a cell membrane and have each operate at near-peak flow? Why are our arteries rubbery? The concept of a random walk provides the necessary insight. Is there an absolute upper limit to human life span? Could the sound of a cocktail party burst your eardrums? The statistics of extremes allows us to make the appropriate calculations. How long must you wait to see the detail in a moonlit landscape? Can you hear the noise of individual molecules? The authors provide answers to these and many other questions. After an introduction to the basic statistical methods to be used in this book, the authors emphasize the application of probability theory to biology rather than the details of the theory itself. Readers with an introductory background in calculus will be able to follow the reasoning, and sets of problems, together with their solutions, are offered to reinforce concepts. The use of real-world examples, numerous illustrations, and chapter summaries--all presented with clarity and wit--make for a highly accessible text. By relating the theory of probability to the understanding of form and function in living things, the authors seek to pique the reader's curiosity about statistics and provide a new perspective on the role of chance in biology.

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Download or read book On Human Nature written by Jonathan H. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures increased hominin ancestors’ emotional capacities through greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex.

Download or read book On Human Nature written by Michel Tibayrenc and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion covers the present state of knowledge on human diversity and its adaptative significance through a broad and eclectic selection of representative chapters. This transdisciplinary work brings together specialists from various fields who rarely interact, including geneticists, evolutionists, physicians, ethologists, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, historians, linguists, and philosophers. Genomic diversity is covered in several chapters dealing with biology, including the differences in men and apes and the genetic diversity of mankind. Top specialists, known for their open mind and broad knowledge have been carefully selected to cover each topic. The book is therefore at the crossroads between biology and human sciences, going beyond classical science in the Popperian sense. The book is accessible not only to specialists, but also to students, professors, and the educated public. Glossaries of specialized terms and general public references help nonspecialists understand complex notions, with contributions avoiding technical jargon. Provides greater understanding of diversity and population structure and history, with crucial foundational knowledge needed to conduct research in a variety of fields, such as genetics and disease Includes three robust sections on biological, psychological, and ethical aspects, with cross-fertilization and reciprocal references between the three sections Contains contributions by leading experts in their respective fields working under the guidance of internationally recognized and highly respected editors

Download or read book Classification Evolution and the Nature of Biology written by Alec L. Panchen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.

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Download or read book The Realm of Nature written by Hugh Robert Mill and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: