product title: Campbell Biology in Focus, Global Edition, 3rd Edition

For introductory biology course for science majors

Built unit-by-unit, Campbell Biology in Focus achieves a balance between breadth and depth of concepts to move students away from memorisation. Streamlined content enables students to prioritise essential biology content, concepts, and scientific skills that are needed to develop conceptual understanding and an ability to apply their knowledge in future courses. Every unit takes an approach to streamlining the material to best fit the needs of instructors and students, based on reviews of over 1,000 syllabi from across the country, surveys, curriculum initiatives, reviews, discussions with hundreds of biology professors, and the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education report.

Maintaining the Campbell hallmark standards of accuracy, clarity, and pedagogical innovation, the 3rd Edition builds on this foundation to help students make connections across chapters, interpret real data, and synthesise their knowledge. The new edition integrates new, key scientific findings throughout and offers more than 450 videos and animations in Mastering Biology to help students actively learn, retain tough course concepts, and successfully engage with their studies and assessments.

Format types

Mastering with eText = Access to the blended learning platform, merging digital content with complementary homework, tutorials, and assessments. Includes the accompanying eText.

Mastering is an advanced online learning platform created by Pearson to enhance your educational experience. It offers a variety of interactive and personalized tools designed to help you grasp complex concepts in subjects like science and engineering.

Key benefits of Mastering include immediate feedback on assignments and quizzes, enabling you to learn from your mistakes and understand the material more deeply. The platform also provides a wide array of practice exercises, tutorials, and multimedia resources that cater to different learning styles. By using Mastering, you can boost your academic performance, stay engaged with your coursework, and manage your study time more efficiently.

New to this edition

• Visualising Figures and Visual Skills Questions help students practice interpreting and creating visual representations in biology. The Visualising Figures have embedded questions that guide students in exploring how diagrams, photographs, and models represent and reflect biological systems and processes
• Problem-Solving Exercises challenge students to apply scientific skills and interpret data in solving engaging real-world problems.
• The impact of climate change at all levels of the biological hierarchy has been expanded throughout the text.

• 1 Introduction: Evolution and the Foundations of Biology
• UNIT 1 Chemistry and Cells
• 2 The Chemical Context of Life
• 3 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
• 4 A Tour of the Cell
• 5 Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
• 6 An Introduction to Metabolism
• 7 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
• 8 Photosynthesis
• 9 The Cell Cycle
• UNIT 2 Genetics
• 10 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
• 11 Mendel and the Gene Idea
• 12 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
• 13 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
• 14 Gene Expression: From Gene to Protein
• 15 Regulation of Gene Expression
• 16 Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer
• 17 Viruses
• 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
• UNIT 3 Evolution
• 19 Descent with Modification
• 20 Phylogeny
• 21 The Evolution of Populations
• 22 The Origin of Species
• 23 Broad Patterns of Evolution
• UNIT 4 The Evolutionary History of Life
• 24 Early Life and the Diversification of Prokaryotes
• 25 The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes
• 26 The Colonization of Land
• 27 The Rise of Animal Diversity
• UNIT 5 Plant Form and Function
• 28 Vascular Plant Structure and Growth
• 29 Resource Acquisition, Nutrition, and Transport in Vascular Plants
• 30 Reproduction and Domestication of Flowering Plants
• 31 Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals
• UNIT 6 Animal Form and Function
• 32 The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation
• 33 Animal Nutrition
• 34 Circulation and Gas Exchange
• 35 The Immune System
• 36 Reproduction and Development
• 37 Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
• 38 Nervous and Sensory Systems
• 39 Motor Mechanisms and Behavior
• UNIT 7 Ecology
• 40 Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms
• 41 Ecological Communities
• 42 Ecosystems and Energy
• 43 Conservation Biology and Global Change