This is the access card only, does not include textbook. LaunchPad is an interactive online resource that helps students achieve better results. LaunchPad combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve, our adaptive quizzing resource, to engage your students and develop their understanding. Unique LaunchPad features included in An Introduction to Genetics: - New step-by-step problem-solving videos-whiteboard-style demonstrations of problems students often find difficult.- Animations of genetic processes and experiments (six new)-every animation now includes assessment questions. Icons in the text showing students when to review them.- Updated Unpacking the Problem problem-solving tutorials, on topics students struggle with, including: Chi-square Analysis (Chapters. 4/5) Pedigree Analysis (Ch. 6) Epistasis (Ch. 6) Molecular Biology Techniques (Ch. 10) Mutations on Gene Expression (Ch. 12) Development (Ch. 13) Population Genetics (Ch. 18) Quantitative Genetics (Ch. 19)- Online versions of the new edition's expanded end-of-chapter problem sets, plus and larger test bank- Intuitive and useful analytics, with a Gradebook that reveals how the class is doing individually and as a whole.- A streamlined and intuitive interface that lets instructors build an entire course in minutes.
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ISBN
9781319052843
Publisert
2015-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Biographical note

Anthony Griffiths is a Professor of Botany, Emeritus, at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the developmental genetics of fungi, using the model fungus Neurospora crassa. He has served as President of the Genetics Society of Canada and Secretary-General of the International Genetics Federation.

Susan R. Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on plant transposable elements and their contribution to gene and genome evolution. Wessler was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, she developed and teaches a series of Dynamic Genome Courses where undergraduates can experience the excitement of scientific discovery.

Sean B. Carroll is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Carroll is a leader in the field of evolutionary developmental biology and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. He is also the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, The Making of the Fittest, and Remarkable Creatures (a finalist for the National Book Award, non-fiction, 2009).

John Doebley is a Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies the genetics of crop domestication, using the methods of population and quantitative genetics. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and served as the President of the American Genetic Association in 2005. He teaches General Genetics at the University of Wisconsin."