Revised for the Tenth Edition, the Life Study Guide offers a variety of study and review tools. The Big Picture provides the student with a quick overview of the chapter's main concepts and themes. The Study Strategies section offers suggestions for the most effective ways to study the specific material in the chapter, and points out areas students are most likely to find difficult. The Key Concept Review section incorporates a review of each main section from the chapter, with review questions that help the student apply what they have learned, including diagram questions. Each Study Guide chapter concludes with a Test Yourself section that allows the student to test their comprehension. All questions include answers and explanations.

New edition of a text presenting underlying concepts and showing their relevance to medical, agricultural, and environmental issues. Seven chapters discuss the cell, information and heredity, evolutionary process, the evolution of diversity, the biology of flowering plants and of animals, and ecology and biogeography. Topics are linked by themes such as evolution, the experimental foundations of knowledge, the flow of energy in the living world, the application and influence of molecular techniques, and human health considerations. Includes a CD-ROM which covers some of the subject matter and introduces and illustrates 1,700-plus key terms and concepts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

For each chapter of the textbook Life , 9th edition, this Study Guide offers a variety of study and review tools, including detailed reviews of the Important Concepts, Big Picture, Diagram Exercises, Common Problem Areas, Study Strategies, and Study Questions (multiple-choice and short-answer) with answers and explanations.

Presents a clear guide to all the major areas addressed in the basic study of biology.

Especially helpful for AP Biology students each chapter of the study guide offers a variety of study and review tools. The contents of each chapter are broken down into both a detailed review of the Important Concepts covered and a boiled-down Big Picture snapshot. The guide also covers study strategies, common problem areas, and provides a set of study questions (both multiple-choice and short-answer).