Here are some study tips on using your textbook, outlining your text material, and quizzing yourself on your biology knowledge.
Study Tips
Modern Biology
Your textbook contains a wealth of detailed information about the science of biology. You will find it easier to learn this information if you know how and when to use the other features contained in your textbook. (Using your notebook paper, write the answers to the following 20 questions.)
Features That Help You Locate Information in Your Text
The Table of Contents is located at the beginning of your book. It lists all the units, chapters, and sections in the book and the page where each one begins. Instead of flipping haphazardly through the text until you find the passage you want, use the Table of Contents to locate it. Once you turn to the first page, use the boldface heading and subheadings to zero in on the passage you want. If you want a list of all the pages in the text where a particular subject is discussed, look that subject up in the Index at the end of the book.
Practice Locating Information
Use the Table of Contents to find the number of the page where each of the following sections begins.
1. Section 4-3
2. Section 32-2
Use the Index to find the first page on which each of the following topics is discussed.
3. enzymes
4. translation
Features That Help You Get Started
The first page of each chapter contains a photograph that illustrates some aspect of the chapter content, a list of all the sections in that chapter, and a Focus Concept, which identifies the theme of each chapter. Within a chapter, each section begins with a list of objectives that tell you what specific information to look for as you read.
Practice Getting Started
5. What is pictured on the first page of Chapter 18?
6. How many objectives are there for Section 29-2?
Features That Help You Review What You Have Learned
Your textbook contains Section and Chapter Reviews that focus your attention on important facts and concepts. Section Reviews appear every few pages in the text. Each one contains several content questions and at least one Critical Thinking question. The Summary/Vocabulary provides a concise summation of the concepts in each section and a list of the terms introduced and the page where found. Chapter Reviews review what you have learned in a variety of ways. You can test your understanding of the main ideas by answering the questions in Review which are vocabulary, multiple choice, and short answer. Critical Thinking use the higher level thinking skills. SciLinks, found at the point of use in the margins, are internet sites where you can learn more about a specific topic. The KEYWORD is HM and the page number form the text.
Practice Using the Section and Chapter Reviews
7. What is the first question in the Chapter Review for Chapter 19?
8. How many content questions are there in the review of Section 21-2?
9. What is found on the last page(s) of every chapter?
10. On page 527, what topic would you research if you went to that SciLinks site?
Features that Enhance Your Understanding of the Material
Your textbook contains a number of other features that help you understand chapter content.
+Photographs and diagrams help you visualize what is described in the text.
+Tables, graphs, and charts present data clearly and concisely.
+Laboratory Investigations enable you to discover biological principles and relationships for yourself.
+Research Notes found in some chapters provide information of specific questions in biology and describe tools and techniques that scientists use to develop new products and technologies.
+Literature and Life relate biology to many different topics outside the classroom.
+Great Discoveries emphasizes the contributions of individual investigators.
Practice Enhancing your Understanding
11. What is the title of the Laboratory Investigation in Chapter 38?
12. What is the topic of Research Notes on page 732?
13. Literature and Life features an excerpt from Gorillas in the Mist on what page?
14. What is the topic for Great Discoveries in chapter 29?
Appendix
You will find in the Appendix general guidelines for laboratory safety and keys to safety symbols and precautions. In addition, a review of SI units and measurements is included.
15. Instructions of use and handling of what instrument is found on page 1088-1089?
16. Classification of organisms in this textbook is based how many kingdoms?
Glossary
The Glossary lists in alphabetical order all the boldface terms introduced in the text. Refer to the Glossary whenever you forget a definition and you can't remember where the term was introduced.
Use the glossary to define each of the following terms.
17. coccus
18. plastron
19. test
20. On what page can you find credits for illustrations and photography used in this textbook?
