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*PRE-ORDER, APPROX 4-6 BUSINESS DAYS* Biology 6th Canadian Edition by Brock Fenton 9781778418877 [ZZ]

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Exploring the Diversity of Life. Hardcover, Cengage

Biology: Exploring the Diversity of Life, Sixth Canadian Edition, is uniquely designed for today’s Canadian biology students. This introductory biology text captures students’ imaginations and evokes a sense of curiosity about the vast world of biology all while nurturing critical thinking. From the very first chapter, students are engaged in the excitement, mystery, and controversy that is modern biology.

The dedicated focus on evolution throughout provides a powerful conceptual lens for viewing and understanding the roots and history of the diversity of living things, all within a uniquely Canadian context. This sixth edition continues the deliberate and ongoing process of opening this resource to a wider range of sources, voices, and perspectives devoted to a more fulsome understanding of the interconnected biological world. The authors offer this edition as part of our continuing effort to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Calls to Action and to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

The Purple Pages, a hallmark of Biology: Exploring the Diversity of Life, found in the middle of the book, contains background scientific information on the chemical, physical, and environmental foundations of biology. This section immerses students in the subject and can be easily referenced when needed.

What's New

  • Explorable 3D Models (powered by Visible Body) in MindTap provide students with interactive activities to explore and manipulate structures, helping to solidify chapter concepts.
  • Mastery Training in MindTap is an adaptive learning technology that helps students build familiarity with key concepts from each chapter to better apply foundational understandings to more complex problems
  • “Apply Evolutionary Thinking” assignments in MindTap deliver critical thinking questions that exercise students' disciplinary thinking skills. Automatic scoring and feedback are provided to students immediately upon submission via built-in AI.
  • “Pause and Review” assignments in MindTap have students deliver spoken responses to pre-built questions, within a timed environment, to truly test their comprehension of content. Built-in AI evaluates students’ communication skills (e.g., tone, pace, filler words) to provide immediate feedback.
  • Added coverage on sustainability and climate change runs throughout the text, maintaining a key focus on these topics of growing importance in today’s biology disciplines.
  • A brand-new interior design, created with the student experience in mind, offers important pedagogical enhancements such as increased readability and more seamless connections and transitions between topics.
  • Deepened Indigenous coverage expands the texts focus on diversity that started with the previous edition. New to the 6th edition are added content, contexts, and examples, and two brand-new features: a footnote system and pronunciation guide.
  • Over 100 new and revised figures and over 200 new photos.

Features

  • Application Activities in MindTap provide interactive, randomized, automatically graded problem sets that assess conceptual understanding.
  • Tutorial videos in MindTap walk students through the foundational concepts discussed in the Purple Pages.
  • Chapter quizzes in MindTap contain auto-graded multiple-choice questions that are aligned to textbook content and curated to replicate the type and level of questions that students will encounter in a classroom testing scenario.
  • Pause and Review questions help students pause after each major section of the book and ensure they understand what they have read
  • Experimental Research figures provide examples where research used both experimental and control treatments to test hypotheses or answer research questions by manipulating the system they studied.
  • Observational Research figures provide examples of actual research where biologists have tested hypotheses by comparing systems under varying natural circumstances.
  • Research Method figures provide examples of important techniques and lead students through the purpose of the technique and protocol, describing how scientists interpret the data generated