Each chapter now has 20 Questions & Activities to provide a broader range of assess-ment options to help students learn. & Activities, including more Internet-based exercises. ■ Expanded sets of end-of-chapter Questions Two goals of the feature are (1) to engage students with contemporary research and (2) to ask higher order questions that require students to think critically. We present an example of interesting, current research or a recent discovery related to the chapter content, provide a brief summary, and ask students to con-sider relevant questions. ■ Case Studies-New to this edition, each end-of-chapter question set, except for chapter 1, now concludes with a Case Study. The fourth edition of Introduction to Biotechnology is thor-oughly updated and includes several new features: In addition to the ethical issues included in each chapter as You Decide boxes, a separate chapter (Chapter 13) is dedicated to ethics and biotechnology. Consideration of the many regulatory agencies and issues that affect the bio-technology industry are discussed in Chapter 12. In our effort to introduce students to the cutting- edge techniques and applications of biotechnology, we have dedicated specific chapters to constantly emerging areas such as microbial biotechnology (Chapter 5), agricultural biotechnology (Chapter 6), animal biotech-nology (Chapter 7), forensic biotechnology (Chapter 8), bioremediation (Chapter 9), aquatic biotechnology (Chapter 10), and medical biotechnology (Chapter 11). We have striven to provide stu-dents with the tools and knowledge they need to under-stand varied and diverse areas of biotechnology. Introduction to Biotechnology provides broad coverage of topics including cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and others. ■ Inspiration for students to consider the many ethi-cal issues associated with biotechnology. ■ Insights on how biotechnology applications can provide some of the tools to solve important scientific and societal problems for the benefit of humankind and the environment.
■ An overview of historic applications while em- phasizing modern, cutting-edge, and emerging areas of biotechnology. ■ Assistance to instructors teaching all major areas of biotechnology and help to students learning fundamental scientific concepts without over- whelming and excessive detail. ■ An engaging and easy-to-understand narrative that is appropriate for a diverse student audience with varying levels of scientific knowledge. Introduction to Biotechnology was designed with sev- eral major goals in mind. Introduction to Biotechnology provides students with the tools for practical success in the biotechnology industry through its balanced coverage of a range of scientific disciplines, details on contemporary techniques and applications, the busi-ness of biotechnology, integration of ethical issues, coverage of important regulatory considerations, and career guidance. Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Biotech-nology remains the first biotechnology textbook writ-ten specifically for the diverse backgrounds of undergraduate students. Advances are occurring at a dizzying pace, and biotechnology has made an impact on many aspects of our everyday lives. We began the preface with this statement in the first edition of Introduction to Biotechnology and this still holds true today.
It is hard to imagine a more exciting time to be studying biotechnology.
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