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Scientific American Biology for a Changing World with Physiology,
Fifth Edition©2026 Michele Shuster; Janet Vigna; Matthew Tontonoz
ISBN:9781319526061
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Biology for a Changing World, Fifth Edition by Shuster, Vigna, and Tontonoz, uses real-life stories—from wrongful convictions overturned by DNA to the science of weight-loss drugs—to help you see how biology connects to your world. With visuals that make complex topics clearer, short videos to prep for class, and personalized tools like an AI-powered study coach, this book helps you build lasting science skills and confidence, even if this is your only college science course.
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Unit 1: Process of Science
CHAPTER 1 Process of Science: Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
CHAPTER 2 Chemistry of Life: The Right Stuff With a powerful new telescope, scientists search for signs of life in the universe
CHAPTER 3 Cell Structure and Function: Wonder Drug
M1 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Scientific Rebel Lynn Margulis
CHAPTER 4 Nutrients, Enzymes, Metabolism: Take Your Vitamins
CHAPTER 5 Energy and Photosynthesis: The Future of Fuel
CHAPTER 6 Dietary Energy and Cellular Respiration: Taste Sensations
Unit 2: Cell Division and Inheritance
CHAPTER 7 DNA Structure and Replication: A Matter of Justice
M2 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: The Model Makers Watson and Crick
CHAPTER 8 Genes to Proteins: Bullet Proof
CHAPTER 9 Mutations and Genetic Engineering: New Gene, New Me
CHAPTER 10 Cell Division and Cancer: Fighting Fate
CHAPTER 11 Simple Inheritance and Meiosis: Catching Breath
M3 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Mendel’s Garden
CHAPTER 12 Complex Inheritance: Genetics Q&A
M4 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Forgotten Forerunner of Epigenetics, Ernest Everett Just
Unit 3: Evolution and Diversity
CHAPTER 13 Natural Selection and Adaptation: Bugs That Resist Drugs
CHAPTER 14 Nonadaptive Evolution and Speciation: Urban Evolution
M5 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Adventures in Evolution Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
CHAPTER 15 Evidence for Evolution: A Fish with Fingers
CHAPTER 16 Life on Earth: Evolution Q&A
CHAPTER 17 Prokaryotic Diversity: Invisible You
CHAPTER 18 Eukaryotic Diversity: Can Rubber Save the Rain Forest?
M6 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Shaking the Tree
CHAPTER 19 Human Evolution: Skin Deep
Unit 4: Ecology
CHAPTER 20 Population Ecology: On the Tracks of Wolves and Moose
CHAPTER 21 Community Ecology: What’s Happening to Honey Bees
CHAPTER 22 Ecosystem Ecology: Bringing Bison Back
M7 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Progress or Poison? Rachel Carson
CHAPTER 23 Global Climate Change Vital Signs
Unit 5: Plant Biology
CHAPTER 24 Plant Growth and Reproduction Plants 2.0
CHAPTER 25 Plant Physiology: Plants Q&A
Unit 6: Animal Physiology
CHAPTER 26 Overview of Animal Physiology Man vs Mountain
CHAPTER 27 Digestive System Stomach Troubles
M8 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Stumbling on a Cure Banting and Best
CHAPTER 28 Cardiovascular System: Death in Bogalusa
CHAPTER 29 Respiratory System Peak Performance
CHAPTER 30 Central Nervous System: Smoke on the Brain
CHAPTER 31 Reproductive System: Too Many Multiples
M9 MILESTONES IN BIOLOGY: Pandora’s Dish: Stem Cells
CHAPTER 32 Immune System: Parallel Pandemics
Michele Shuster
Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In her life as a Professor in the Biology Department, she focused on biology teaching and learning and taught introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level. She has also worked on several STEM education grants. Michèle has mentored graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in effective teaching, thereby preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Westhafer Award for Teaching Excellence at NMSU. Michèle received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.
Janet Vigna
Janet Vigna, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Student Success in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She is a science education specialist, with a passion for training and mentoring K–12 science teachers and teaching nonmajors biology. Her professional interests include the development of curriculum and student success programming that embeds high impact experiential learning. She has been recognized with several teaching awards, including the Michigan Science Teachers Association College Science Teacher of the Year. She received her B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa.
Matthew Tontonoz
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