The lack of examples helps the text steer away from controversial topics. This book I think is a helpful outline of an introductory course. It can help an instructor who is unsure about the topics that should be covered. It isn't comprehensive enough to be a stand alone resource for a class. While the text covers a multitude of topics, it doesn't give the details often required for thorough understanding.
Comprehensiveness rating: 4 see less. I do not agree with citing Wikipedia as a scientist, because of the ability to edit the information. I learned it was always best to use peer reviewed materials. The text is more of a bulleted list of topics that doesn't seem to need the majority of the sub-categories and is sometimes redundant in placement of the material.
Text seems consistent but has details in some sections, and rather vague in others to be considered a general biology text. Short bullet points help, and it seems very helpful as a study guide for something larger with more in depth discussions.
This book covers almost every topic that biology major students should know, however, it misses information in every topic. In another word, it tries to cover everything but failed to cover everything in detailed, especially it misses some In another word, it tries to cover everything but failed to cover everything in detailed, especially it misses some important information that a regular textbook should contain.
It more looks like a study guide for test instead of a learning material. It tells you what type of information you should know, however, you probably have to search more detailed information in each unit somewhere else. Content appeared to be accurate for me. Probably it needs to be added more updated knowledge in a newer version. This book is not up-dated as I mentioned above.
It definitely can be added more update information as the progress of the technology. However, this book is easy to be updated by any instructors with newer and more information in their own manner due to the special structure of this book. Some concepts should be explained with more words and sentences. This textbook is somewhat inconsistent. As for the structure, some chapters contains more information than other chapters.
In another word, some chapters use a bullets format, but the others use a paragraph format and try to explain more detailed information. This book is very easy to be divided into smaller reading sections for sure due to its special structure.
It is easy to reorganized and realigned by any instructor based on how he or she wants to structure his or her course. The topics in the text are presented in a logical order, however, it can use more subunit under each chapter to make this textbook look more organized. This book does not contain too many figures. It might be a good way in some purpose, for example, you only want to use this book as a study guide. However, as a real textbook, it definitely needs more graphs and figures to improve the readability of this textbook.
This book is not culturally insensitive or offensive in any way. This textbook can be good or bad for you depends on how you want to use it and in which way. It is more like a quick study review for general biology instead of a regular textbook. As I mentioned above, if you want to quickly go through every topic covered by general biology in a really basic level, this book can be useful for you.
However, if you want more detailed information and use this book as a main textbook resource for your two semester length course, this book is not your best choice. The text covers most subjects of general biology. Because it is very concise using bullets in many places , not many information is included. The knowledge depth is not adequate for a real textbook. Content appears accurate. DNA sequencing section may need to be updated with next generation sequencing information.
The text is too short. It does not contain enough information to be a textbook. It can be useful for quick review for exams. Certain chapters and paragraphs are clear and contain enough information. However, most of the text does not contain enough information, largely due to the fact that this book is more like a summary of various topics in biology, not a real textbook.
The text is not consistent in terms of style, formatting, clarity, and information provided. For instance, only practice questions are provided for a couple of topics. The text uses a bullet point style, which makes the modularity very clear. However, by doing so, lots of information is omitted. The topics are divided into chapters only. It can be improved if the chapters are organized by units. There are some grammatical errors, such as misspellings, extra words or numbers, and incorrect use of plurals.
Formats are not consistent. This book summarizes the main concepts in general biology. It can be used for preview and review purposes. The text is easy to read. This is not a comprehensive text. If all of the topics that are missing from this text were included in this review, the review would be as long as the text.
The PDF is less than pages long for what is typically taught in two one-semester Comprehensiveness rating: 1 see less. The PDF is less than pages long for what is typically taught in two one-semester classes.
Sufficient detail and background information is not provided. The entire PDF only includes six figures. In particular, information on diversity is incomplete with the majority of taxonomic levels and categories missing.
For example, in Chapter 24 Chordates, information on Class Osteichthyes consists of a couple of sentences on Subclass Sarcopterygii. Ray-finned fishes are not included. Only one half page of information is provided on Class Aves.
Class Mammalia is covered in less than one page. Section Developmental biology, comparative physiology, ecology at any level , behavior, endosymbiosis, plant anatomy and plant physiology are a few of the topics absent from the PDF. The glossary is half of a page with many definitions missing. No index is included. Text content is not accurate, error-free and unbiased. Very little organismal and diversity of life information is provided.
Unfortunately, adequate and appropriate quantity of information is not provided for any topic. Proof reading did not occur. Under the section The PDF is outdated and no longer relevant. An incomplete and outdated classification of Kingdom Animalia is used. Important plant, fungi and protist phyla are missing as are milestones in animal evolution and characteristics that allowed plants to colonize land.
The minimal amount of biotechnology information included in the PDF is also outdated. The PDF is highly inconsistent. Scientific and genus names frequently appear in regular font neither italicized nor underlined and capitalization is not consistent.
A few sections include complete sentences and paragraphs and the remaining sections contain no text or only bulleted lists. The majority of chapters do not practice questions. If practice questions are included, answers to questions are not consistently included, if at all.
In some sections, references made to pages and figures in an unnamed textbook. Text organization is not logical. The text is not divided into units but would benefit by organization into units rather than using placeholder chapters as is used for Chapter 1 Getting Started, Chapter 6 Cells, Chapter 15 Genetics and Chapter 25 Tissues and Systems. No text included in these placeholder chapters.
Information is not logically organized. For example, Chapter 13 on Photosynthesis includes unrelated sections on prokaryote cell division, eukaryote chromosomes, chromosome organization no text included , human karyotype stained by chromosome paints no text included , human chromosomes a quarter page with a bulleted list , mitotic cell cycle three bullets and one text box consisting of one sentence , replicated human chromosomes no text included , mitosis half page of information , plant mitosis one quarter page , controlling the cell cycle, cancer and mutations and cancer no text included.
The glossary Chapter 34 is half of a page with some terms undefined. The list of figures does not correspond to the six figures included in the text. Some of the links in the footnotes connect to Wikibooks pages that do not contain any information. Its levels of study are at the level of organisms, populations and communities of populations that make up ecosystems and the biosphere in general.
Environmental biology is a science that studies the possible solution to environmental problems and fundamentally requires a broad knowledge and understanding of the basic physical, chemical and biological processes that occur in nature, for which it is necessary to have qualified personnel to face this problem that integrates almost all branches of knowledge and that should converge in an effort to achieve an adequate relationship between humans and their environment.
Environmental problems are analyzed from a broad biological perspective, with a comprehensive vision of the components of the environment, in such a way that environmental policies can be formulated based on research processes.
The life sciences have undergone an extraordinary development in recent decades, which has led to a great diversification of the fields of study. Specifically, environmental biology studies the relationship of biological systems organisms, species, ecosystems with their environment. Genetics is a branch of biology that studies how hereditary traits are transmitted from generation to generation.
Genes are the units of information used by organisms to transfer characteristics to their offspring. The gene contains encoded instructions for synthesizing all the proteins of an organism.
These proteins are the ones that will eventually give rise to all the characteristics of an individual phenotype. Genetics takes on special relevance when studying the transmission of diseases. In the same way that eye color is inherited from parents to children, there are also diseases that can be transmitted to offspring, in this case we speak of genetic or hereditary diseases.
Histology is a branch of biology that studies the organic tissues of animals and plants in their microscopic aspects: characteristics, composition, structure and function. For this reason, its fundamental tool is the microscope. The Italian Marcello Malpighi is considered the founder of histology. It was this biologist and anatomist who detected living cells for the first time.
Thanks to increasingly powerful microscopes, histology progressed throughout the 17th century and in the following years. The results of histological studies are key to medicine and biology, both for understanding the properties of the organism under normal conditions and for examining the presence of pathologies, their evolution and possible diagnosis.
Marine biology is the scientific study of all organisms and species living in the aquatic environment. It must be taken into account that our planet is made up of two thirds of water and there are millions of living organisms that live in this natural environment.
Marine biology is strongly related to oceanography , the scientific study of the oceans. Within oceanography we can distinguish geological oceanography, which studies the seafloor, chemical oceanography, which studies the chemical components of the oceans, and physical oceanography, which studies the waves, currents, tides and other physical aspects of the sea.
Microbiology is the branch of biology that studies microorganisms, both prokaryotes and viruses as well as simple eukaryotes, uni and multicellular. The organisms that are the object of this branch are those that are only visible under the microscope. In the field of health and medicine , microbiology is of great importance since it is in charge of studying pathogenic microorganisms such as fungi, viruses, parasites and bacteria that can cause disease in humans.
Through microbiology, infectious diseases suffered by any patient are studied and thanks to it, the most appropriate treatment for each disease and patient can be determined. Molecular Biology is the scientific discipline that aims to study the processes that take place in living organisms from a molecular point of view. The following definition of Molecular Biology can be found in the Human Genome Project: The study of the structure, function and makeup of biologically important molecules.
This area is related to other fields of Biology and Chemistry, particularly Genetics and Biochemistry. Molecular biology is mainly concerned with understanding the interactions of the different systems of the cell, which includes many relationships, including those of DNA with RNA, protein synthesis, metabolism, and how all these interactions are regulated to achieve proper cell function.
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