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General Biology 1: Cells, Genetics, and Evolution

Investigating Cells, Genetics, and Evolution

by Dennis Holley

Volume one of a two-volume general biology sequence for majors. Research-based, content-driven, and written for incoming freshmen with an average to fair background in biology.

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About this publication

Textbook Media Press presents GENERAL BIOLOGY 1 (2e), one volume of a two-volume set designed and written for a two-semester course for majors. This text is research-based, content-driven, and written at an appropriate level for incoming freshmen with an average to fair background in biology.

General Biology 1 has been designed and written to be:

  1. Readable and interesting in tone, not encyclopedic.
  2. Understandable, not term-and-terminology driven.
  3. Appropriately written as to content level and amount, to accommodate incoming freshmen with average to fair backgrounds in biology.

Many college biology textbooks are written at a higher technical level than they should be. This one is written for the students actually sitting in an introductory majors course. Terms and scientific names are used when and where appropriate to illustrate and explain the concepts and ideas inherent in a particular chapter, rather than as vocabulary to be memorized.

The second volume, General Biology 2: Investigating Organisms and Ecology, continues the sequence.

5 things to know about 2e

  1. One volume of a two-volume set designed and written for a two-semester course for majors. Pair it with General Biology 2: Investigating Organisms and Ecology.
  2. Research-based and content-driven: built on current educational research and best practices, not tradition.
  3. Written at an appropriate level for incoming freshmen with an average to fair background in biology.
  4. Readable and interesting in tone, not encyclopedic.
  5. Understandable, not term-and-terminology driven. Scientific terms appear when and where they illuminate a concept.

About the author

Dennis Holley

Dennis Holley eagerly devoured every biology course he could take in college, and while he flirted for a time with the idea of becoming a marine biologist, he eventually became an educator. For nearly forty years, high schools and universities have paid him for doing what he loves: teaching biology, and writing all sorts of science curriculum materials, from lab manuals to textbooks. Along with teaching students, Mr. Holley traveled the country for many years teaching teachers how to best teach science as a member of Carolina Biological Supply Company's team of teacher consultants. He has also taught numerous science methods courses at the college level for elementary education majors and biology majors, along with a variety of other courses including general biology.