Discover Biology - Full Edition
Discover Biology helps students become biologically literate students—to progress from science to scientific literacy.
Written from the ground up for nonmajors, Discover Biology is the only introductory biology textbook to present consistently applied features in each chapter that not only demonstrate biology’s everyday relevance, but teach students how to move from simply understanding core biological concepts to actively applying those concepts to our rapidly changing world.
Discover a chapter organization that promotes scientific understanding.
Each chapter in Discover Biology opens with a story that engages student interest and helps to answer the all-too-common question, “Why should I care about biology?"
That story is revisited at the end of the chapter, demonstrating how the core chapter reading allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the chapter opening story.
Discover artwork presented at the right level of detail for students.
Discover Biology is written and illustrated from the ground up for nonmajors. Each chapter’s content and artwork is consistently presented with just the right level of detail to promote scientific literacy.
For the fourth edition, Anu Singh-Cundy reevaluated every piece of art with an eye toward keeping the presentation simple and avoiding excessive detail. Many of the figures include concise bubble captions that guide students through the figure’s most important features.
Discover features that highlight key concepts and biology’s relevance to everyday life.
New Concept Checks throughout the text promote long-term retention of the material by asking students to think critically about the chapter reading.
Nearly 200 bracketed pronunciation guides accompany difficult to pronounce key terms and scientific names.
Recognizing that mastering scientific terminology is a key part of true scientific literacy, Discover Biology includes Helpful to Know marginal annotations. These encourage deep understanding of vocabulary that will serve students through their next exam and beyond.
Biology Matters boxes on topics such as human health and the environment connect chapter content to information of practical importance, with the goal of raising student awareness of the opportunities they have to make choices in their own lives.
Science Toolkit boxes give students insight into the methods, tools, and ideas that scientists employ in their research.
Biology on the Job boxes examine how biological literacy can help in “nonbiological” careers such as crime-scene investigation and biotech investing.
Discover Biology in the News
The Biology in the News sections strengthen scientific literacy. Actual news stories in the textbook, on the DVD, and on the website show students how their coursework helps them to make sense of current events.
Discover Comprehensive Chapter Reviews
These straightforward and clearly presented summaries of the chapter’s key concepts and terms are presented along with multiple choice questions and answers to help students reinforce what they’ve learned.
StudySpace
This free and open website will include multiple-choice quizzes, process animations and activities, What’s News exercises, a regularly updated Biology in the News feed, chapter overviews, and more.
Animations and activities
Over 200 animations and activities developed specifically for Discover Biology bring key figures from the text to life.
Study Guide
Featuring a complete study plan and practice questions for each chapter.
Art Notebook
Containing all drawn figures from the text in full color, with ample space for notes – a valuable resource for both note-taking and reference.
Discover Biology In The News Instructor’s Video DVD
This DVD features 60 real-news clips for use in introductory biology lectures. Carefully selected for currency and relevance, these news topics serve as the perfect complement to the text.
Instructor Resources on DVD-ROM and at wwnorton.com/instructors
- all line art, with and without labels, and most photographs in jpeg and PowerPoint formats.
- lecture outlines for each chapter, with embedded Process Animations and Clicker questions in Keynote (Mac) and PowerPoint formats
Test Bank
Includes over 3,000 questions in ExamView Assessment Suite format.
Coursepacks
Available in BlackBoard and WebCT formats, coursepacks include all of the book’s resources in a course-ready format.
The Discovery Channel Life Science DVD Library
Contains over 100 video clips corresponding to the units of the textbook, perfectly suited as lecture launchers. For qualified adopters.
Norton Gradebook
An online resource that allows instructors and students to track their online quiz results from discoverbiology.com
Transparencies
Drawn art and selected photographs from the main text are available on transparencies
