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This brand-new book is designed to prepare New Jersey high school students taking biology/life science courses to succeed on the End of Course Test, which is administered statewide. Separate chapters review all biology test topics, including cells, transport across cell membranes, organic biomolecules, cell division, molecular genetics, Mendelian genetics, genetic technology, exchanges with the environment and energy, taxonomic classification, evolution and natural selection, human body systems, ecology, biomes, and human impact on the planet. Each chapter concludes with both multiple-choice and free-response questions with answers. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:sufficient knowledge of living things, insects, birds, and other common animals, trees, native plants, fungi, etc., to make them good citizens and enable them to play their part in the game of life, it will be time to take another decided moult out of the course I have suggested below. There is plenty of room ahead for that, however, and I only hope the time for it may come soon.The dynamic types and the order in which they are studied may be seen at a glance in the following diagram.MAMMALIAFrom the order in which the types are studied it will be seen that ours resembles Huxley's revised course; and, clearly, we may be as "logical" in passing from the complex to the simple as the reverse. We have here the double advantage of gliding easily down on the animal side, thereby gaining momentum to rise through an ideal series of plant forms on the other side. And there is a distinct advantage in studying the vertebrates,including a glimpse of embryology at the close, as the natural completion of the year's study. The immense superiority and advantage of vertebrate structure and organization over all other plans cannot be properly sensed unless this order is followed.Dynamically, insects are of the utmost importance, and zoologically this is the age of insects. There are more than ten times as many insect species as of any other animals; and practically insects form the best possible introduction to the course. They furnish an abundance of forms with which to develop ideas . of animal classification without even mentioning "cells" in the! .' introductory lessons. Best of all, fully half the laboratory work through September and October may be done out of doors, a feature to which I attach great importance throughout the course. So far as practicable I would have the st... ... Read more