Campbell Biology Plus Mastering Biology Student Access Kit: Global Edition

This 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

Each chapter is organized around a framework of three to six Key Concepts that provide the context for supporting details, helping students to distinguish the forest from the trees.

The Key Concepts are presented at the beginning of the chapter to orient students to the main ideas of the chapter. The Overview and chapter opening question engage students and set the stage for the chapter content.
Numbered Concept Heads remind students of the main ideas as they begin each section of the chapter and make it easy for instructors to assign selected sections.
Concept Check Questions at the end of each section provide a hierarchical framework for self-assessment that builds students’ confidence and then challenges them to push the limits of their understanding with two types of critical thinking questions: What if? Questions, which ask students to apply what they’ve learned, and new Make Connections Questions, which ask students to relate material to what they learned in an earlier chapter.
The end-of-chapter Summary of Key Concepts refocuses students on the main points, emphasizing the chapter’s organizational structure. Summary diagrams provide a visual review of the material and new Summary of Key Concepts Questions enable students to check their understanding of a key learning goal for each Key Concept.
The text engages students in scientific inquiry, revealing “how we know what we know” and helping students develop their critical thinking and inquiry skills.

New Impact Figures motivate and inspire students by demonstrating the impact of biology research on their daily lives, the field of biology, and global problems. Each Impact Figure includes a discussion of Why It Matters, suggests articles for Further Reading, and concludes with a What if? or Make Connections Question.
Inquiry Figures help students understand the experimental basis of biological knowledge and provide a model of how to think like a scientist:
Each Inquiry Figure begins with a research question and then explores how researchers designed an experiment, interpreted their results, and drew conclusions.
Each Inquiry Figure references the source article for the experiment, encouraging students to extend their learning by exploring the primary literature.
Each Inquiry Figure concludes with a What if? Question that asks students to consider an alternative scenario. These questions can serve as discussion starters for active learning in lecture, discussion sections, or student study groups.
Selected Inquiry Figures invite students to read and analyze the original research article in the supplement Inquiry in Action: Interpreting Scientific Papers.
Research Method Figures illustrate important techniques in biology.
Scientific Inquiry Questions at the end of each chapter give students more opportunities to practice critical thinking by developing hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing real research data.
In the Global Edition, we have replaced some of the North American interviews with renowned researchers from outside North America to inspire students and show them the human side of science.
Carefully crafted figures help visual learners understand complex structures and processes and organize material into a clear hierarchy of ideas.
New Visual Organizers highlight the hierarchy of information in multipart figures to help students understand and study the material.
Exploring Figures help students access information efficiently by integrating text and visuals.
Guided Tour diagrams walk students through a figure like an instructor would, pointing out key structures, functions, and steps of processes.
In selected figures, a three-dimensional art style helps students visualize biological structures.
Figure legend questions prompt students to delve into a figure’s content and assess their understanding.
MasteringBiology is an online learning and assessment system proven to help students learn. It helps instructors maximize class time with customizable, easy-to-assign, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture. The powerful gradebook provides unique insight into student and class performance. As a result, instructors can spend class time where students need it most. MasteringBiology empowers students to take charge of their learning through assignable tutorials, activities, and questions aimed at different learning styles. It engages students in learning biology through practice and step-by-step guidance—at their convenience, 24/7.

New items include Data Analysis Tutorials, Student Misconceptions Questions, Make Connections Tutorials, Experimental Inquiry Tutorials, Video Tutor Sessions, and an optional upgrade to include Virtual Labs.
Pre-built Reading Quizzes allow instructors to create quick and easy assignments in MasteringBiology to make sure students read the book before class. Instructors can easily edit the questions and answers or import their own questions.
BioFlix® 3-D Animations and Tutorials cover the most difficult biology topics with assignable tutorials plus self-study modules that include movie-quality animations, labeled slide shows, carefully constructed student tutorials, study sheets, and quizzes that support all types of learners. Topics include A Tour of the Animal Cell, A Tour of the Plant Cell, Membrane Transport, Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis, Mitosis, Meiosis, DNA Replication, Protein Synthesis, Mechanisms of Evolution, Water Transport in Plants, Homeostasis: Regulating Blood Sugar, Gas Exchange, Immunology, How Neurons Work, How Synapses Work, Muscle Contraction, Population Ecology, and The Carbon Cycle.
The Study Area can be used by students on their own or in a study group. The Study Area includes a grading rubric for the Write About a Theme questions, revised Practice Tests and Cumulative Tests, BioFlix 3-D Animations, MP3 Tutor Sessions, Videos, Activities, Investigations, GraphIt!, Lab Media, Glossary with audio pronunciations, Word Study Tools (Word Roots, Key Terms, and Flashcards), and Art.
The Instructor Resources area includes PowerPoint® lectures, clicker questions, Jpeg images, animations, videos, lecture outlines, learning objectives, strategies for overcoming common student misconceptions, Instructor Guides for supplements, a suggested grading rubric for grading short-answer essays, essay question suggested answers, test bank files, and lab media.
The Pearson eText includes powerful interactive and customization features, such as the ability to search, type notes, highlight text, create bookmarks, zoom, click hyperlinked words to view definitions, and link to media activities and quizzes. Professors can write notes and highlight material for their class using a new tool that works like an electronic pen on a whiteboard.


1. Introduction: Themes in the Study of Life

I. THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE

2. The Chemical Context of Life

3. Water and Life

4. Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life

5. The Structure and Function of Large Biological Molecules

II. THE CELL

6. A Tour of the Cell

7. Membrane Structure and Function

8. An Introduction to Metabolism

9. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation

10. Photosynthesis

11. Cell Communication

12. The Cell Cycle

III. GENETICS

13. Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles

14. Mendel and the Gene Idea

15. The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance

16. The Molecular Basis of Inheritance

17. From Gene to Protein

18. Regulation of Gene Expression

19. Viruses

20. Biotechnology

21. Genomes and Their Evolution

IV. MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTION

22. Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life

23. The Evolution of Populations

24. The Origin of Species

25. The History of Life on Earth

V. THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

26. Phylogeny and the Tree of Life

27. Bacteria and Archaea

28. Protists

29. Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land

30. Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants

31. Fungi

32. An Overview of Animal Diversity

33. An Introduction to Invertebrates

34. The Origin and Evolution of Vertebrates

VI. PLANT FORM AND FUNCTION

35. Plant Structure, Growth, and Development

36. Resource Acquisition and Transport in Vascular Plants

37. Soil and Plant Nutrition

38. Angiosperm Reproduction and Biotechnology

39. Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals

VII. ANIMAL FORM AND FUNCTION

40. Basic Principles of Animal Form and Function

41. Animal Nutrition

42. Circulation and Gas Exchange

43. The Immune System

44. Osmoregulation and Excretion

45. Hormones and the Endocrine System

46. Animal Reproduction

47. Animal Development

48. Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling

49. Nervous Systems

50. Sensory and Motor Mechanisms

51. Animal Behavior

VIII. ECOLOGY

52. An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere

53. Population Ecology

54. Community Ecology

55. Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology

56. Conservation Biology and Global Change