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Laboratory Manuals

Biology & Biotechnology: Science, Applications & Issues

This exciting new volume offers a broad collection of college-level experiments that provides students a hands-on understanding of biotechnology and molecular biology, including applications and practical uses.

The inquiry-based activities, chosen for their safety, reliability, and flexibility, are designed to pique the students' interest and provide them with opportunities for independent study. The clear, readable text makes concepts easily understandable, and the user-friendly format allows students to easily follow protocols.

Each investigation includes suggested reading, laboratory language, and analysis questions that help direct student thinking. Side-bar comments offer special hints and detailed information to ensure success, but keep the protocols themselves easy to follow. Comprehensive laboratory safety guidelines are also included.

The experiments, organized into fundamental laboratory activities and applications of these protocols, are easily adapted to fit the time frame of a one-or two-semester laboratory course.

Key Features

Experiments progress from simple to complex, presenting continuity within the experiment.
Historical perspective and extensive backgroun information included with each exercise.
Exercises are self-contained.
Side bar notes give students special hints and detailed information
Inquiry-based experiments stinulate students to internalize process of doing science.

Authors:

Judith A. Scheppler, Patricia E. Cassin, and Rosa M. Gambier

Catalog No.:

E1-0111
$49.95

Biology and Biotechnology: Science, Applications, and Issues

Biology and Biotechnology offers an inviting exploration of biotechnology, carefully blanding science, consumer applications, regulatory information, and social issues. Providing a strong basis in the fundamentals of biological science, the book focuses on the material that is needed to understand and evaluate technologies that are available to consumers. With its highly readable writing style, this new volume will intrigue readers who have little scientific background and seek to educate themselves on the burgeoning field of biotechnology.

Numerous examples throughout this section illuminate how scientific knowlege translates into technologies that are used to solve problems both in mdoern medicine and in everyday settings. Important narratives document the history of specific scientific developments, illustrating both how progress is made in science and how society directly impacts science.

The commercial appliations of biotechnology products are also explored, detailing the use of biotechnology in medicine, food, agriculture, and the environment. Readers are introduced to specific products, the factors associated wtih introducing these products into the market, and the regulatory process that affects decision making about the future directions of science and technology.

Key Features

College-level textbook designed to provide analytical strategies necessary for making informed dicisions about various uses of biotechnology.
Provides rare view into the interconnected world of research, government policy, regulatory processes, and developing new technologies.
Integrates cell biology with observable organismal phenomena and technological applications.
Presents balanced examination of biotechnology in medicine, agriculture, food and industry.
Clarifies regulatory process governing the introduction of new biotechnology products into the marketplace.
Prepares students to be informed consumers of biotechnology products and policies.

Authors:

Helen Kreuzer, University of Utah and Adrianne Massey, A. Massey & Associates

Catalog No.:

E1-0112
$79.95

"Basic Laboratory Methods for Biotechnology" Textbook and Laboratory Reference

Unique in both content and approach, this text/reference provides a systematic introduction to basic laboratory methods from the perspective of the everyday work in the labs of the biotechnology/bioscience industry. Written at a level that is accessible to students with average math and science backgrounds. Provides the depth and detail useful to professional laboratory workers. It blends the background and theory provided by introductory chemistry texts with the practical concerns discussed in advanced lab manuals. It focuses on basic laboratory methods, the principles that underlie those methods, and the equipment that makes laboratory work possible.

Key Features

Math in the laboratory
Preparing solutions
Measurements
Safety
Separations
Using controls in the lab
Quality control
Data analysis

Authors:

Lisa A Seidman and Cynthia J. Moore

Catalog No.:

E1-0113
$79.95