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The science of biology evolves. The science classroom and lab evolve. In this edition, as always, The Science of Biology evolves with them, in innovative, authoritative, and captivating ways.
From the first edition to the present, Life has set the standard for being the most balanced experimentally-based introductory biology text. Life has always presented how we know (the process of science through experiments) as well as what we know (facts derived from these experiments). The new edition builds on this legacy, again teaching fundamental concepts and the latest developments by taking students step by step through the research that revealed them. To achieve this, all of the Ninth Edition’s innovations—new authorship, new and reororganized chapters, new experimental content, enhanced features, reinvisioned art, and new media tools—are focused on giving students and instructors the best tools for bringing the best of biological research and applications into the introductory majors biology course.
Also available, Volume —paperbound in full color!
Volume The Cell and Heredity (Chapters 1-20)
Volume Evolution, Diversity and Ecology (Chapters 1, 21-33, 54-59)
Volume Plants and Animals (Chapters 1, 34-53)
A GREENER LIFE
Another first, the new edition of Life is printed on paper earning the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label, the “gold standard” in green paper products. Life paper includes 10% pre-consumer waste, 10% post-consumer waste, and is manufactured from wood from well-managed sustainable forests. Additionally, Life’s green initiatives
• 5% soy based ink
• Covers printed on stock with 10% post-consumer waste
• 100% recycled paper coverboards
• Digitized work flow to reduce paper waste
All of which also earn us Courier Printing Company’s Green Edition designation for reducing our environmental footprint. The environmental savings we have achieved on the first printing alone
• Number of trees 469
• Air emissions eliminated (GHG’s): 52,240 pounds
• Water 171,250 gallons
• Solid waste 28,335 pounds
Visit the Life , 9e preview site at
The science of biology evolves. The science classroom and lab evolve. In this edition, as always, The Science of Biology evolves with them, in innovative, authoritative, and captivating ways.
From the first edition to the present, Life has set the standard for being the most balanced experimentally-based introductory biology text. Life has always presented how we know (the process of science through experiments) as well as what we know (facts derived from these experiments). The new edition builds on this legacy, again teaching fundamental concepts and the latest developments by taking students step by step through the research that revealed them. To achieve this, all of the Ninth Edition’s innovations—new authorship, new and reororganized chapters, new experimental content, enhanced features, reinvisioned art, and new media tools—are focused on giving students and instructors the best tools for bringing the best of biological research and applications into the introductory majors biology course.
Also available, Volume —paperbound in full color!
Volume The Cell and Heredity (Chapters 1-20)
Volume Evolution, Diversity and Ecology (Chapters 1, 21-33, 54-59)
Volume Plants and Animals (Chapters 1, 34-53)
A GREENER LIFE
Another first, the new edition of Life is printed on paper earning the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label, the “gold standard” in green paper products. Life paper includes 10% pre-consumer waste, 10% post-consumer waste, and is manufactured from wood from well-managed sustainable forests. Additionally, Life’s green initiatives
• 5% soy based ink
• Covers printed on stock with 10% post-consumer waste
• 100% recycled paper coverboards
• Digitized work flow to reduce paper waste
All of which also earn us Courier Printing Company’s Green Edition designation for reducing our environmental footprint. The environmental savings we have achieved on the first printing alone
• Number of trees 469
• Air emissions eliminated (GHG’s): 52,240 pounds
• Water 171,250 gallons
• Solid waste 28,335 pounds
1267 pages, Unbound
First published December 5, 2006
About the author
David E. Sadava
129 books4 followersDavid E. Sadava is the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at the Keck Science Center of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps, three of The Claremont Colleges. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center. Twice winner of the Huntoon Award for superior teaching, Dr. Sadava has taught courses on introductory biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, plant biology, and cancer biology. In addition to Life: The Science of Biology, he is the author or coauthor of books on cell biology and on plants, genes, and crop biotechnology. His research has resulted in many papers coauthored with his students, on topics ranging from plant biochemistry to pharmacology of narcotic analgesics to human genetic diseases.
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May 12, 2015
Great book of molecular biology
Required reading
And to read molecular biology core text from beginner
Required reading
And to read molecular biology core text from beginner
January 24, 2008
I'm being optimistic. Of course, if I don't get at least a B- in this class, it's the books fault not mine which will justify a revision of my current rating from five starts to three.
January 9, 2018
Biyoloji hakkında çoook geniş bir kitap, en olarak. Ama güzel okunuyor.
December 21, 2023
Before this book, my little exposure to biology was when I was in high school about 15 years back.
I did not read the complete book as it is too big to be finished in a year. I went through the biochemistry and genomics sections to build my background for a study of bioinformatics.
This book is great! My favourite part of this book is how it builds up a context around each concept, as in, how was it discovered, which experiments were performed to study it, and which people were involved. As you read the book, you work your way up to the present. It's a wonderful introduction to how science is done and in particular, how research in biology is done.
I cannot think of any downside of this book.
I supplement reading this book with these lectures https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-int...
I did not read the complete book as it is too big to be finished in a year. I went through the biochemistry and genomics sections to build my background for a study of bioinformatics.
This book is great! My favourite part of this book is how it builds up a context around each concept, as in, how was it discovered, which experiments were performed to study it, and which people were involved. As you read the book, you work your way up to the present. It's a wonderful introduction to how science is done and in particular, how research in biology is done.
I cannot think of any downside of this book.
I supplement reading this book with these lectures https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-int...
April 21, 2020
Summarizes some big, complex subjects well
November 17, 2023
Good, but not perfect. Chapter 7 should be organize after Chap 16. Cell signalling can only be really appreciate after knowing about the big picture of DNA to protein.
May 5, 2024
A very good introductory text for organismal biology. Just the right amount of detail for a freshman-level course. Diagrams were occasionally very busy, making it difficult to parse.
May 10, 2007
Nice figures. I only scanned a bunch of this one because I was bored in the class but the figures were helpful.
May 7, 2011
I read Volumes 2 and 3 for Biology 2. Biology 1 (Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology) used a different textbook.
April 5, 2012
This is the book that got me through university! I did Zoology but it would be good for any biology based course.
June 4, 2012
Helped Aced my bio class, and many more to come.
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