Provides information in manageable chunks, which is reinforced by questions and activities that encourage students to consider the practical application of science to everyday life. This work is useful for Higher Tier GCSE students.

Provides information in manageable chunks, which is reinforced by questions and activities that encourage students to consider the practical application of science to everyday life. This work is useful for Higher Tier GCSE students.

New Coordinated Science is our most popular upper secondary course and is widely regarded by teachers as the best available. This third edition has been completely updated for the new specifications. These new editions maintain the same clear presentation and straightforward approach that has made New Coordinated Science so enduringly popular. Information is provided in manageable chunks and is reinforced by stimulating questions and activities that encourage students to consider the practical application of science to everyday life. These new editions provide a new focus on your Higher Tier GCSE students. The breadth and depth of the new material is enough to stretch and stimulate even the highest achievers. New Coordinated Science is also recommended by University of Cambridge International Examinations for IGCSE Physics.

Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century recommends that a "New Biology" approach-one that depends on greater integration within biology, and closer collaboration with physical, computational, and earth scientists, mathematicians and engineers-be used to find solutions to four key societal needs: sustainable food production, ecosystem restoration, optimized biofuel production, and improvement in human health. The approach calls for a coordinated effort to leverage resources across the federal, private, and academic sectors to help meet challenges and improve the return on life science research in general.

Collins Cambridge IGCSETM Co-ordinated Sciences Biology provides full coverage of all core and supplement Biology topics in the revised syllabus. Carefully developed features including questions, worked examples, key terms and more allow students to build firm scientific knowledge, develop practical skills and approach exams with confidence. Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education For examination from 2025 Full coverage of the Biology content of the Cambridge IGCSE Co-ordinated Sciences syllabus (0654) for examination from 2025 All extended material covered and clearly differentiated Written by experienced authors who are specialists in their field Packed with questions throughout to check understanding and confirm knowledge Worked examples provide support and scaffolding Key terms and end of topic checklists allow students to check their progress Investigative tasks develop students' practical science skills Practice questions with example answers and comments help students learn how to answer questions well and hone their technique 'Science in Context' boxes deepen students' understanding of the science, how it is used and why it matters, sparking curiosity Further carefully developed features include supportive tips, knowledge checks, glossary and learning objectives to provide a clear, engaging resource for students Answers provided to support self-assessment and reflection A dedicated book for each science to keep course manageable and easy to use We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education towards endorsement of this resource.

The Cambridge IGCSE® Combined and Co-ordinated Sciences series is tailored to the 0653 and 0654 syllabuses for first examination in 2019, and all components of the series are endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations. Cambridge IGCSE® Combined and Co-ordinated Sciences Coursebook is tailored to the 0653 and 0654 syllabuses for first examination in 2019 and is endorsed for full syllabus coverage by Cambridge International Examinations. This interdisciplinary coursebook comprehensively covers the knowledge and skills required in these courses, with the different syllabuses clearly identified. Engaging activities in every chapter help students develop practical and investigative skills while end-of-chapter questions help to track their progress. The accompanying CD-ROM contains self-assessment checklists for making drawings, constructing and completing results tables, drawing graphs and designing experiments; answers to all the end-of-chapter questions and auto-marked multiple-choice self tests.

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Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions. The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The first theme covers the basic concepts of mathematics in biology, discussing the mathematics used in biological quantities, processes and structures. The second theme, calculus, extends the language of mathematics to describe change. The third theme is probability and statistics, where the uncertainty and variation encountered in real biological data is described. The fourth theme is explored briefly in the final chapter of the book, which is to show how the 'tools' developed in the first few chapters are used within biology to develop models of biological processes. Mathematics for Biological Scientists fully integrates mathematics and biology with the use of colour illustrations and photographs to provide an engaging and informative approach to the subject of mathematics and statistics within biological science.

This textbook introduces fundamental concepts of bioinformatics and computational biology to the students and researchers in biology, medicine, veterinary science, agriculture, and bioengineering . The respective chapters provide detailed information on biological databases, sequence alignment, molecular evolution, next-generation sequencing, systems biology, and statistical computing using R. The book also presents a case-based discussion on clinical, veterinary, agricultural bioinformatics, and computational bioengineering for application-based learning in the respective fields. Further, it offers readers guidance on reconstructing and analysing biological networks and highlights computational methods used in systems medicine and genome-wide association mapping of diseases. Given its scope, this textbook offers an essential introductory book on bioinformatics and computational biology for undergraduate and graduate students in the life sciences, botany, zoology, physiology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, and genomic science as well as systems biology, bioengineering and the agricultural, and veterinary sciences.

When it comes to reproduction, gymnosperms are deeply weird. Cycads and co- fers have drawn out reproduction: at least 13 genera take over a year from polli- tion to fertilization. Since they don’t apparently have any selection mechanism by which to discriminate among pollen tubes prior to fertilization, it is natural to w- der why such a delay in reproduction is necessary. Claire Williams’ book celebrates such oddities of conifer reproduction. She has written a book that turns the context of many of these reproductive quirks into deeper questions concerning evolution. The origins of some of these questions can be traced back Wilhelm Hofmeister’s 1851 book, which detailed the revolutionary idea of alternation of generations. This alternation between diploid and haploid generations was eventually to become one of the key unifying ideas in plant evolution. Dr. Williams points out that alter- tion of generations in conifers shows strong divergence in the evolution of male and female gametes, as well as in the synchronicity of male and female gamete development. How are these coordinated to achieve fertilization? Books on conifer reproduction are all too rare. The only major work in the last generation was Hardev Singh’s 1978 Embryology of Gymnosperms, a book that summarized the previous century’s work. Being a book primarily about embry- ogy, it stopped short of putting conifer reproduction in a genetic or evolutionary context.