• Genomics
• Gene editing technology (CRISPR)
• Microbiomes
• Impacts of climate change across the biological hierarchy
• Significant revisions have been made to Unit 8, Ecology, including a deeper integration of evolutionary principles.

Skill Development and Practice: The Eleventh Edition engages students by challenging them to apply their knowledge and skills to a variety of hands-on activities and exercises in the text and online.

• Problem-Solving Exercises guide students in applying scientific skills and interpreting real data in the context of solving a real-world problem. A version of each Problem-Solving Exercise can also be assigned in MasteringBiology.
• Visualizing Figures and Visual Skills Questions are designed to improve students’ ability to interpret and create visual representations of processes and structures in biology. These skills are an essential foundation for understanding diagrams and models that students will encounter in higher-level courses and the scientific literature. For more practice, each Visualizing Figure is accompanied by an automatically graded assignment in MasteringBiology with answer-specific feedback for students.

Make Connections: The Eleventh Edition helps students make connections visually across biology topics.

• Make Connections Figures include Figure 37.10, “Mutualism Across Kingdoms and Domains,” and Figure 56.29, “Climate Change Has Effects at All Levels of Biological Organization.” Make Connections Figure 18.27 on breast cancer has been expanded to illustrate the role of cell signaling in one type of breast cancer and its treatment.

Active Learning and Assessment: Campbell BIOLOGY, Eleventh Edition, provides students with multiple opportunities to deepen their understanding of biology:

• • Problem-Solving Exercises using real data guide students in applying scientific skills and interpreting real data in the context of solving a real-world problem. A version of each Problem-Solving Exercise can also be assigned in MasteringBiology.
  • Visualizing Figures and Visual Skills Questions are designed to improve students’ ability to interpret and create visual representations of processes and structures in biology. These skills are an essential foundation for understanding diagrams and models that students will encounter in higher-level courses and the scientific literature. For more practice, each Visualizing Figure is accompanied by an automatically graded assignment in MasteringBiology with answer-specific feedback for students.
  • QR codes and URLs at the end of every chapter give students quick access to Vocabulary Self-Quizzes and Practice Tests on their smartphones, tablets, and computers.

Carefully developed art and animations help visual learners

• Visualizing Figures are designed to improve students’ ability to interpret and create visual representations of processes and structures in biology. These skills are an essential foundation for understanding diagrams and models that students will encounter in higher-level courses and the scientific literature. For more practice, each Visualizing Figure is accompanied by an automatically graded assignment in MasteringBiology with answer-specific feedback for students.
• Visual Skills Questions give students practice interpreting information presented visually in diagrams and models. Visual Skills: Draw It Questions ask students to put pencil to paper and draw a structure or process, deepening their understanding of the topic.
• Make Connections Figures include Figure 37.10, “Mutualism Across Kingdoms and Domains,” and Figure 56.29, “Climate Change Has Effects at All Levels of Biological Organization.” Make Connections Figure 18.27 on breast cancer has been expanded to illustrate the role of cell signaling in one type of breast cancer and its treatment.

• • Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules in the Instructor Resources section help instructors efficiently make use of the available teaching tools for the toughest topics. Before-class assignments, in-class activities, and after-class assignments are provided for ease of use. Instructors can incorporate active learning into their course with the suggested activity ideas and clicker questions or Learning Catalytics questions.
  • Figure Walkthroughs guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and embedded self-assessment questions that reinforce important points. The Figure Walkthroughs are also assignable in MasteringBiology, with more challenging, higher Bloom’s level questions.
  • Get Ready for This Chapter mini-quizzes provide a quick check of students’ knowledge of basic information needed to learn the new content, with feedback to bolster their preparation. These questions are available as MasteringBiology assignments and as self-study quizzes in the eText and Study Area.
  • eText 2.0 integrates the electronic text with Videos, Animations, Get Ready for This Chapter questions, Figure Walkthroughs, Vocabulary Self-Quizzes, Practice Tests, MP3 Tutors, and Interviews in a format that can be used on smartphones, tablets, and computers. (Coming summer 2017).
  • Hundreds of self-paced MasteringBiology tutorials provide individualized coaching with specific hints and feedback on the toughest topics in the course. For example:
• • Visualizing Figures have companion activities assignable in MasteringBiology that give students more practice interpreting information presented visually in diagrams and models.
  • Problem-Solving Exercises challenge students to apply scientific skills and interpret data in the context of solving a real-world problem. These are available in the book and as MasteringBiology assignments.
  • HHMI Short Films are documentary-quality movies from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute with explorations from the discovery of the double helix to evolution and include assignable questions.
  • Galápagos Evolution Video Activities, filmed on the Galápagos Islands by Peter and Rosemary Grant, bring to life the dynamic evolutionary processes that impact Darwin’s finches on Daphne Major Island. Six videos explore important concepts and data from the Grants’ field research, and assignable activities make sure students stay focused on the important takeaway points.

Lisa Urry (Chapter 1 and Units 1, 2, and 3) is Professor of Biology and Chair of the Biology Department at Mills College in Oakland, California, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating from Tufts University with a double major in biology and French, Lisa completed her Ph.D. in molecular and developmental biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. She has published a number of research papers, most of them focused on gene expression during embryonic and larval development in sea urchins. Lisa has taught a variety of courses, from introductory biology to developmental biology and senior seminar. As a part of her mission to increase understanding of evolution, Lisa also teaches a nonmajors course called Evolution for Future Presidents and is on the Teacher Advisory Board for the Understanding Evolution website developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Lisa is also deeply committed to promoting opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in science.

Michael L. Cain

Michael Cain (Units 4, 5, and 8) is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist who is now writing full-time. Michael earned a joint degree in biology and math at Bowdoin College, an M.Sc. from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. As a faculty member at NEW! Mexico State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he taught a wide range of courses, including introductory biology, ecology, evolution, botany, and conservation biology. Michael is the author of dozens of scientific papers on topics that include foraging behavior in insects and plants, long-distance seed dispersal, and speciation in crickets. Michael is also the lead author of an ecology textbook.

Steven A. Wasserman

Steve Wasserman (Unit 7) is Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He earned his A.B. in biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in biological sciences from MIT. Through his research on regulatory pathway mechanisms in the fruit fly Drosophila, Steve has contributed to the fields of developmental biology, reproduction, and immunity. As a faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and UCSD, he has taught genetics, development, and physiology to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. He currently focuses on teaching introductory biology. He has also served as the research mentor for more than a dozen doctoral students and more than 50 aspiring scientists at the undergraduate and high school levels. Steve has been the recipient of distinguished scholar awards from both the Markey Charitable Trust and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. In 2007, he received UCSD’s Distinguished Teaching Award for undergraduate teaching.

Peter V. Minorsky

Peter Minorsky (Unit 6) is Professor of Biology at Mercy College in New York, where he teaches introductory biology, evolution, ecology, and botany. He received his A.B. in biology from Vassar College and his Ph.D. in plant physiology from Cornell University. He is also the science writer for the journal Plant Physiology. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Peter taught at Kenyon College, Union College, Western Connecticut State University, and Vassar College. His research interests concern how plants sense environmental change. Peter received the 2008 Award for Teaching Excellence at Mercy College.

Jane B. Reece

The head of the author team for recent editions of CAMPBELL BIOLOGY, Jane Reece was Neil Campbell’s longtime collaborator. Earlier, Jane taught biology at Middlesex County College and Queensborough Community College. She holds an A.B. in biology from Harvard University, an M.S. in microbiology from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of California, Berkeley. Jane’s research as a doctoral student and postdoctoral fellow focused on genetic recombination in bacteria. Besides her work on the Campbell textbooks for biology majors, she has been an author of Campbell Biology: Concepts & Connections, Campbell Essential Biology, and The World of the Cell.

Neil A. Campbell

Neil Campbell (1946–2004) combined the investigative nature of a research scientist with the soul of an experienced and caring teacher. He earned his M.A. in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California, Riverside, where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2001. Neil published numerous research articles on desert and coastal plants and how the sensitive plant (Mimosa) and other legumes move their leaves. His 30 years of teaching in diverse environments included introductory biology courses at Cornell University, Pomona College, and San Bernardino Valley College, where he received the college’s first Outstanding Professor Award in 1986. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. Neil was the lead author of Campbell Biology: Concepts & Connections, Campbell Essential Biology, and CAMPBELL BIOLOGY.