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Learning is much more than reading a textbook. That's why the 10th edition of Inquiry into Life is integrated closely with an Online Learning Center where students and professors alike will benefit. The OLC provides animations, virtual labs, online quizzing, Power Point lecture outlines, and other tools that will help make teaching a little easier and learning a lot more fun.Inquiry into Life covers the whole field of basic biology, and emphasizes the application of this knowledge to human concerns. Along with this approach, concepts and principles are stressed, rather than detailed, high-level scientific data and terminology.
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Mader: Inquiry Into Life, Tenth Edition Front Matter Readings © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2002 Readings Cloning of Humans 15 Organic Pollutants 42 Use of Stem Cells 64 Paying for Cancer Treatment 98 Fossil Fuel Energy to Grow Food 111 Alternative Medicines 127 Food for the Human Population 144 Tragedy of the Commons 189 Organ Transplants 210 Legislation and Health 236 Reducing Health-Care Costs 258 Clinical Trials 278 Use of Antibiotics 298 Declaration of Death 340 Personal Responsibility for Health 362 Performance-Enhancing Drugs 388 Fertility Drugs 409 Assisted Reproductive Technologies 436 Maternal Health Habits 462 Genetic Profiling 480 Choosing Gender 497 Genetic Testing for Cancer Genes 522 Transgenic Crops 535 The Theory of Evolution 562 Social Treatment of Carriers 588 Conservation of Coral Reefs 632 Animals in the Laboratory 657 Population Growth in Less-Developed Countries 693 Curtailing Greenhouse Gases 712 Pollution Legislation 738 The Endangered Species Act 756 The Harm Done by Acid Deposition 30 Tropical Rain Forests: Can We Live Without Them? 157 Paper: Can We Cut Back? 163 Photochemical Smog Can Kill 287 Endocrine-Disrupting Contaminants 427