Biology C2006 / F2402 - Spring 2003 - Books

Textbooks.  The page numbers listed on the Schedule refer to the three textbooks listed below.  There are several copies of each in the Biology Library, and you may be able to get used copies at DogEars.

You are not expected to do all the readings in all these books.  Consider your particular background in biology, your interest in the topic, and the time you have to spend on a book, in deciding which book(s) is right for you.
Becker, Kleinsmith & Hardin, The World of the Cell, 5th ed, Benjamin Cummings, 2002. 

This text was used in the first semester.  The 4th edition, by Becker, Reece & Poenie, is similar.  You can get the approximate pages to read by checking the schedule from Spring 2002.  

Textbook website has quizzes, essay questions, and web links for each chapter.
Purves, Sadava, Orians and Heller, Life, the Science of Biology, 6th ed., Sinauer-Freeman, 2001

This text was also used in the first semester.  If you have another general bio textbook, such as Campbell or Raven, you can use that instead.  You'll have to figure out yourself which pages cover the lecture material.

The Lifewire is the book's website.  Includes tutorials, quizzes, animations and other activities for each chapter.
Sherwood, Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems; 4th ed, Brooks/Cole 2001. 

We'll cover only 25% of this text, so you may want to rely on the copies in the library, or look for a used copy at DogEars.  This textbook is also used in the Physiology course, so if you're planning to take that next year,  you may as well buy the book this semester.   If you buy the book online or at another store, make sure that you do not get Fundamentals of Human Physiology, a shorter, less detailed, book by the same author.  Also, if you see a paperback version offered for about $20, that is probably a Study Guide and not the textbook itself. 

Textbook website has flashcards to test vocabulary, quizzes, and links to web readings.
Problem book.  The problem book will be available next week at the Village Copier, 115th Street near Broadway.   Copies will be put on reserve in the Biology Library.
Mowshowitz & Gibber, Problems in Cell Biology, Physiology & Development, 5th ed, 2003. 

Students who do well in this course consistently say that they benefited from working on the problems that are provided.  These problems are based on questions from exams over the past few years.  
Supplementary texts.  If there's something that's not clear in the textbook, or if you want to read more on a particular topic, try one of these excellent texts, which should be available on reserve in the Biology Library.

Wolfe, Molecular and Cellular Biology or Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (a shorter version).
Lodish et al. Molecular Cell Biology  3rd or 4th ed. 
Alberts et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell 3rd or 4th ed. or Alberts et al. Essential Cell Biology, 1998. 

The Bookshelf at PubMed has online versions of the Lodish and the Alberts books, as well as The Cell - A Molecular Approach by Cooper.  You can search through all these books at once, by typing in a term such as "microtubules", and you'll get links to the pages in each book that mention this term.