Investigating Biology
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Investigating Biology Laboratory Manual offers full-color art and photos throughout, encouraging you to participate in the process of science and to develop creative and critical-reasoning skills. All lab topics include connections with advances in current research; lab topics with opportunities for open inquiry offer suggestions that will lead to independent investigations and collaborative team research.
The 10th Edition expands opportunities for you to participate in science. Selected pieces of art are revised, with new photos added to accompany art in many lab topics. It updates and revises lab topics and practice problems, provides resources on how to read and summarize scientific literature to avoid plagiarism, and more.
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Judith Giles Morgan received her M.A. degree from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. She is Professor Emerita of Biology at Emory University, where she developed a general biology laboratory curriculum for majors to incorporate an investigative approach and a TA training program for multi-section investigative laboratories. Dr. Morgan directed and taught Emory's Coastal Biology Program for many years. She served as an officer and board member of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education. Dr. Morgan has worked to improve science achievement for promising area high school students, as she directed science summer programs at Emory University, and by leading science laboratories for elementary classrooms.
Eloise Brown Carter earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from Emory University and is Professor Emerita of Biology at Oxford College of Emory University. With expertise in plant ecology, she has incorporated independent and team research into introductory and advanced biology courses. Dr. Carter served as President of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. She has received several teaching and service awards, including Oxford's Phi Theta Kappa and Fleming Awards, and Emory's Williams Award and Thomas Jefferson Award. Dr. Carter taught in the Oxford Institute for Environmental Education, a program for precollege teachers to improve science education through development of schoolyard investigations.