Textbook Information

The required textbook for this course is:

Biology. 8th Edition. 2007, by Raven, Johnson, Losos, and Singer.

Published by McGraw Hill.

This book is available at the Downtown Campus Bookstore, or you can order it elsewhere.

If you are using the 7th edition, you will need to check out the 8th edition from the library or the Biology Learning Center for the some chapters because there have been substantial changes from the 7th to 8th edition.

Here are the pages in the 7th edition for each lesson, with the Lessons for which you need to check out the 8th edition noted in red.

• Lesson	Chapter	Pages
  Lesson 1	21	433-434
  	22	all
  Lesson 2	21	435-452
  Lesson 3	23	471-490
  	23	all
  	26	all
  Lesson 4	27	all
  	28	all
  Lesson 5	28	561-565
  	30	599-605
  Lesson 6	no reading
  Lesson 7	37	767-768
  	37	772-774
  	38	784
  	38	790-791
  	39	798-800
  	40	807-811
  	41	840-841
  	41	844-854
  Lesson 8	31	618-627
  	31	630-632
  	32	633-650
  Lesson 9	33	651-682
  Lesson 10	34	683-728
  Lesson 11	42	855-859
  	42	870-871
  	42	882-886
  	43	887-899
  	44	907-911
  	44	915-917
  	44	921-922
  	44	924-929
  Lesson 12	45	939-948
  	45	954-958
  	46	969-971
  	47	992
  	47	1000
  	47	1003-1005
  	47	1008
  	49	1039-1051
  	50	1061-1067
  Lesson 13	53	1137-1160
  	54	1161-1182
  Lesson 14	52	1105-1111
  	52	1114-1117
  	52	1122-1136
  Lesson 15	57	all
  	58	all
  Lesson 16	59	all

For all other chapters, you should be OK using the 7th edition because the changes to those chapters were relatively minor. However, please note that the textbook questions on your worksheets match the 8th edition's reading assignments; this may cause you some confusion.

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