This resource has been created for my students enrolled in my Fundamentals of Biology course at West Hills Community College in Lemoore, CA.
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Proteins play vital roles in most biological processes; these roles include acting as catalysts for physiological reactions, as regulators for those reactions, or as structural framework around which these processes can occur. Proteins’ complex organization of diverse functionality in 3D space leads to an astonishing range of function for living organisms. Understanding this intimate relationship between structure and function is the backbone of understanding the natural world and is the key to controlling it. Data dashboard
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Bite-sized video lectures about Life Science and Earth Science.
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself. This text also includes 80 interactive H5P activities that you can use to evaluate your understanding as you go.
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself. This text also includes 80 interactive H5P activities that you can use to evaluate your understanding as you go.
In the adapted textbook, Concepts of Biology — 1st Canadian Edition, you will find the following units: Unit 1: The Cellular Foundation of Life Unit 2: Cell Division and Genetics Unit 3: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Unit 4: Animal Structure and Function
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself.
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself.
In the adapted textbook, Concepts of Biology — 1st Canadian Edition, you will find the following units: Unit 1: The Cellular Foundation of Life Unit 2: Cell Division and Genetics Unit 3: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Unit 4: Animal Structure and Function
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ISBN: 978-1-998755-10-3
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself. This text also includes 80 interactive H5P activities that you can use to evaluate your understanding as you go.
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself. This text also includes 80 interactive H5P activities that you can use to evaluate your understanding as you go.
In the adapted textbook, Concepts of Biology — 1st Canadian Edition, you will find the following units: Unit 1: The Cellular Foundation of Life Unit 2: Cell Division and Genetics Unit 3: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Unit 4: Animal Structure and Function
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ISBN: 978-1-989623-99-2
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Esta cartilha é o produto final do Projeto de Extensão: “Conhecendo os Morcegos do Alto Tietê” (Edital: 2021SZN_002) e foi financiado e desenvolvido no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo – campus Suzano.
Essa cartilha apresenta as caracterísiticas básicas da Ordem Chiroptera, bem como a importância ecológica dos morcegos. Além de apresentar as 16 espécies presentes na região do Alto Tietê no estado de São Paulo.
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region.
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This eBook aims to support current and future plant genetic resource managers as they consider the impacts of climate change on plants, agriculture, agrobiodiversity, and plant collections. Our goal is to provide information for readers to learn, understand, plan, and anticipate climate change extremes and how they might impact plant conservation and ex situ collections. Developing plans and preparing management and decision-making processes for dealing with the effects of climate change aligns with many sustainability practices and brings forward skills and techniques for forecasting and adaptive resource management.
In this eBook, we focus on introducing broad ideas, tools, and tactics to support ex situ plant collection managers in building climate-ready collections. We summarize the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food systems, and present a series of chapters that highlight important considerations of a complex landscape, including:
Chapter 1 – Understanding how climate changes impacts agriculture and food systems
Chapter 2 – Identifying the importance of plants in both mitigating and adapting to climate change
Chapter 3 – Understanding the need and value of ex situ plant collections for providing solutions that address the effects of climate change
Chapter 4 – Understanding how climate change affects plant interactions with pollinators, pathogens, and pests
Chapter 5 – Describing methods and opportunities for plant breeding to respond to climate change
Chapter 6 – Considering climate change impacts on plant collections management
Chapter 7 – Learning to develop plans that address the vulnerabilities of climate change
This information serves as an overview of a complex subject that includes the impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity and the critical roles that plant collections have in mitigating and adapting to a changing climate. A greater understanding of these key topics will provide critical insights into the planning necessary to ensure that food plant genetic resources are conserved for current and future generations.
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Consumer Nutrition is an OER textbook developed as an introductory nutrition resource.
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Consumer Nutrition is an OER textbook developed as an introductory nutrition resource. It includes information on nutrients, alcohol, dietary guidelines, food safety, dietary supplements, energy balance, nutrition and fitness, food insecurity and waste, and nutrition through the lifecycle.
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This book provides an introduction to the genetic concepts of reproductive systems, recombination, mutation, segregation and linkage analysis, inbreeding, quantitative inheritance, fertility regulation, population genetics and polyploidy.
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This book provides an introduction to the genetic concepts of reproductive systems, recombination, mutation, segregation and linkage analysis, inbreeding, quantitative inheritance, fertility regulation, population genetics and polyploidy.
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This open textbook places emphasis on the design of a process pipeline for continuous development of new improved cultivars as a means to implement the cycle of crop improvement. Essential topics in New Line Development and New Line Evaluation are addressed, such as choice of parents, creation of progeny, and evaluation and selection of progeny. Students learn to design a process pipeline to produce improved cultivars that meet a specific product target which represents stakeholders’ needs.
Each of the books in the PBEA series comes with a section in its back matter titled "Applied Learning Activities" which includes additional content aligned to each chapter such as handouts and worksheets, csv files, code for statistical analysis in R, and recommended readings.
O presente livro é resultado do mestrado profissional do Programa de pós-graduação em Rede Nacional para Ensino das Ciências Ambientais (PROFCIAMB) da Universidade Federal do Pará. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida através de um curso de capacitação sobre a importância ambiental e socioeconômica dos sistemas de produção de cacau ofertado aos alunos do curso técnico em agropecuária da Escola Comunitária Casa Familiar Rural de Uruará – CFRU. Durante esse curso, notou-se a dificuldade dos alunos em buscar informações sobre a cacauicultura e as principais árvores que são utilizadas como sombreamento e a relevância desse sistema produtivo. O livro tem como público alvo os alunos do curso técnico em agropecuária das Escolas Casa Familiar Rural – CFRs, professores, profissionais de extensão rural e produtores rurais.
O primeiro capítulo trata do conhecimento sobre as principais práticas de manejo nas lavouras cacaueiras. Para fundamentá-lo, foram utilizadas publicações de autores vinculados a Comissão Executiva de Planejamento da Lavoura Cacaueira – CEPLAC, que pesquisam sobre a cacauicultura há mais de 50 anos no Brasil.
Durante o curso de capacitação, foi realizado um levantamento das principais espécies que são utilizadas pelos produtores do município de Uruará como sombreamento das lavouras de cacau. Além disso, houve um questionamento aos produtores sobre a importância ambiental e socioeconômica das espécies plantadas. Foi realizada a identificação das espécies encontradas e as 20 mais abundantes foram selecionadas para compor o capítulo 2 desse livro.
O segundo capítulo apresenta 20 espécies florestais nativas da Amazônia para compor o sistema de produção de cacau, tendo como principal função o sombreamento. Além disso, informações são fornecidas para que os produtores possam complementar a renda da família com a venda de produtos como: frutos, sementes, óleos e madeira. Além disso, para aumentar a produção, informações como diversificar as
espécies no sistema de produção de cacau, trazer recursos para a propriedade como madeira para construção civil e rural na propriedade, alimento para a família e animais de criação, e uso de plantas medicinais são fornecidos. Em vista para proteger, conservar e aumentar a abundância das espécies nativas que são utilizadas no sombreamento do cacau, informações sobre risco de extinção e função ecológica também foi fornecida.
O livro possui função didática e pode ser utilizado nos cursos voltados à agricultura e produção cacaueira. Também servem de apoio e conhecimento para professores, profissionais na área de agropecuária e produtores de cacau que busquem ampliar seus conhecimentos.
A numerous internationally renowned authors in the pages of this book present the views of the fields of cell biology and their own research results or review of current knowledge. Chapters are divided into five sections that are dedicated to cell structures and functions, genetic material, regulatory mechanisms, cellular biomedicine and new methods in cell biology. Multidisciplinary and often quite versatile approach by many authors have imposed restrictions of this classification, so it is certain that many chapters could belong to the other sections of this book. The current frontiers, on the manner in which they described in the book, can be a good inspiration to many readers for further improving, and perspectives which are highlighted can be seen in many areas of fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology and other applications of knowledge of cell biology. The book will be very useful for beginners to gain insight into new area, as well as experts to find new facts and expanding horizons.
Clackamas Community College customized the OpenStax Biology textbook and moved it into Odigia for BI 101.
Catalog description: An inquiry-based laboratory course focusing on cellular biology, genetics, epigenetics, biotechnology and natural selection. Class uses student
centered activities in a collaborative learning environment to enhance appreciation of the biological world.
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This book is a derivation of the OpenStax Microbiology textbook and is written for microbiology majors, non-majors and allied health students.
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This book is a derivation of the OpenStax Microbiology textbook and is written for microbiology majors, non-majors and allied health students. This first edition includes more basic microbiology, microbial physiology and microbial ecology.
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The teaching of histology increasingly relies on digital resources in lieu of traditional microscope laboratories. Digital Histology provides an open educational resource that combines a digital atlas with extensive descriptive text. It is organized as a multi-hierarchy outline that reinforces broader histological concepts and parallels the content of most histology textbooks. Digital Histology, featuring on-demand labeling of structures and interactive quizzes with formative feedback, can be used by a diverse group of learners.
The initial display page (Main Menu) lists the major chapter headings organized in a hierarchical structure that follows content areas used in most modern histology textbooks. Each heading contains a small arrow indicating that the tab leads to a deeper menu structure. Clicking on one of these tabs displays a submenu to the right. The same convention holds for lower levels of the hierarchy. Tabs not displaying an arrow lead directly to program content.
Program content is organized as pages. Each page consists of an image with a title and a descriptive text included beneath it. To the right of the image is a list of labels indicating the structures identified in the image. Click each label to display indicators and highlights on the image that identify that structure. Many labels also include a carat (>), indicating that additional, new descriptive text is displayed beneath the image.
Navigate between pages using the arrows at the bottom of the page. Navigate to other areas of the program by clicking on the “breadcrumb” menu above the image. To return to the Main Menu, click either on “Main Menu” in the breadcrumb trail or on “DIGITAL HISTOLOGY” in the upper left corner of the screen.
Quizzes
The button labeled “Quizzes” on the Main Menu links to a list of self-assessment quizzes for each major topic. For each question, choose an option to register your response and select “Check.” Feedback will appear for correct responses. You can proceed forward and backward within the quiz, and a final score is displayed at the end. To return to the Main Menu, click either on “Return to Main Menu” or on “DIGITAL HISTOLOGY” in the upper left of the screen.
Review Textbook
Digital Histology Review Textbook is an outlined summary of basic histology that parallels the content contained within Digital Histology. The textbook provides concise, detailed histological content in an easy-to-read format that allows a rapid review of histology. The textbook includes all the figures contained in Digital Histology as well links to content areas in the program. The full text, as well as individual chapters, are fully searchable and printable. Back arrows on the browser will return the user to the original Table of Contents page.
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Visual depictions of the health care professions often do not include ethnoculturally diverse therapists and patients. Stock videos and photos can also be expensive, limiting access to high quality resources to those who can afford to pay. We developed an online library to house photos that depict therapists and patients from diverse backgrounds performing physiotherapy skills and engaging in healthcare-related activities. The Diversity Exchange is one way to enhance teaching and learning by integrating anti-racist and anti-oppressive pedagogy ensuring our culture and practices resist and dismantle institutional racism, rather than reproducing it.
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NewParaThis textbook is a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1109 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. If you have technical difficulty downloading this textbook, copy & paste the following direct link into your browser's address bar to allow you download the print .pdf version: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol110311092nded/open/download?type=print-pdfNewParaNote: This open textbook has been imported into Pressbooks to make it easier for instructors to edit, build upon, and remix the content. There may be formatting errors in the book that need attention. We therefore recommend you review and edit this book before using it in your own classroom. For information about how to get your own copy of this book to work on, see the Clone a Book chapter in the Pressbooks Guide. You can access the original OpenStax version of this textbook on which this version is based here: Anatomy and Physiology
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This textbook is a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1109 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. Readers should be aware that the information herein is subject to change at any time as corrections, additions, or other important modifications are made. Current students at Douglas College should be aware that only the most recent version of this textbook will be considered by their instructors to be complete and correct. The most recent version of this second edition will remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol110311092nded/, and the most recent version of the second edition of the companion textbook (developed for Douglas College’s BIOL 1203 and BIOL 1209 courses) will also remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312092nded/.
This textbook was developed initially as an adaptation of the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely and perpetually available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. The original adaptations of that OpenStax textbook for Douglas College are accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol11031109/ and https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol12031209/ In the first edition of the Douglas College adaptations the chapter and section numbers were left as they were in the version of the OpenStax A&P textbook, from which they were largely drawn. However, this second edition has been more extensively edited and rearranged to correspond with the curriculum used at Douglas College, so chapter and section numbers are no longer aligned specifically with the OpenStax A&P textbook.
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NewParaThis textbook is part of a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1203 and BIOL 1209 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. A newer edition is currently in use and is available at: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312094thed/NewParaIf you have technical difficulty downloading the current version of this textbook, copy & paste the following direct link into your browser's address bar to allow you download the print .pdf version: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312094thed/open/download?type=print_pdfNewParaNote: This open textbook has been imported into Pressbooks to make it easier for instructors to edit, build upon, and remix the content. There may be formatting errors in the book that need attention. We therefore recommend you review and edit this book before using it in your own classroom. For information about how to get your own copy of this book to work on, see the Clone a Book chapter in the Pressbooks Guide. You can access the original OpenStax version of this textbook on which this version is based here: Anatomy and Physiology
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This textbook is a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1109 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. Readers should be aware that the information herein is subject to change at any time as corrections, additions, or other important modifications are made. Current students at Douglas College should be aware that only the most recent version of this textbook will be considered by their instructors to be complete and correct.
This textbook was developed initially as an adaptation of the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely and perpetually available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. Note that the Douglas College edition of this textbook has been extensively edited and rearranged to correspond with the curriculum used at Douglas College, so chapter and section numbers are not necessarily aligned specifically with those in the OpenStax A&P textbook.
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