CK-12 Life Science
CK-12 Daily life Science covers seven units: Understanding Living Items Cells: The Building Blocks of Life Genetics and Evolution Prokaryotes, Protists, Fungi, and Plants The Animal Kingdom The Human Body and Ecology.CK-12 Daily life Science covers seven units: Understanding Residing Items Cells: The Building Blocks of Daily life Genetics and Evolution Prokaryotes, Protists, Fungi, and Plants The Animal Kingdom The Human Physique and Ecology.
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A Decent Introductory Life Science Textbook,
“Life Science” is a combination of various scientific disciplines that deal living organism and their environments. Different branches of life science encompass botany, zoology, marine biology, microbiology, virology, cell biology, morphology, physiology, immunology, neuroscience, developmental biology, embryology, genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology, biogeography, and population biology.
This is by and large a very approachable and well presented introductory life science textbook, and it is written with a high school student or beginning college student in mind. Topics covered include scientific theories in general, the theory of evolution, tools of science, cells, genetics, prokaryotes, fungi, plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, animal behavior, animal tissues, reproductive systems, ecosystems, and the environmental problems.
Each chapter ends with a several questions, most of which are not quantitative. In fact, this is not a very quantitatively oriented textbook, and it stresses critical and scientific thinking over quantitative skills. However, it is a very interesting and well organized textbook and provides an excellent introduction to earth science. In addition to questions, there are also numerous vocabulary terms listed at the end of each chapter. These provide the student with an opportunity to systematize the knowledge gained in the preceding chapter. There are also numerous references for further study and links to other outside resources.
The book is replete with many illustrations and photographs, and they are generally of high quality and on the average much better than in most other CK-12 textbooks.
This book is available under the Creative Commons License through the CK-12 foundation, which means it can be reprinted, modified and resold if necessary. It is also a fairly large file, so be prepared for a longish download.
The Kindle formatting of this textbook leaves something to be desired. The book was originally typeset in LaTeX, and this did not translate all that smoothly into the Kindle format. I’ve found that getting this textbook on other e-readers or computers in the epub format rendered it much more satisfactorily.
This is not the flashiest textbook that you will come across, but in my opinion it gets the job done.
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|CK-12 Life Science needs work,
I agree that the downloadable version this book needs work. My goal is to interest children in science and make sure they can remember pertinent details. This version of the CK12 Life Science book fails there. However, we have been enjoying the online version of the CK12 Life Science for Middle Schoolers (which is also free). It includes videos and seems to be properly edited.
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|The price is right (free),
I would not recommend this book for learning about life science or an introduction to biology. First the book is very long in the tooth and clearly written by committee and they don’t all agree on subjects. Second, this book needs some serious editing. incorrect page reference, incomplete sentences and assumption about current events that assume an adult view and might not be valid for a teenager, certainly not in the years to come. Sorry to say, if this what they are going to hand to a high schooler, I can imagine why they would drop out and study wood shop.
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