Amazon.com description: Product Description: Key Benefit: Get Ready for Microbiology helps readers quickly prepare for their microbiology course and provides useful materials for future reference. The workbook gets readers up to speed with chapters on study skills, math skills, microbiology terminology, basic chemistry, basic biology, and basic cell biology before a final chapter that introduces students to microbiology. Each chapter includes a pre-test (Your Starting Point), guided explanations, interactive practice exercises with answers explained (Time to Try; Picture This; Reality Check), quizzes with answers given (Quick Check), motivations for learning (Why Should I Care?), and end-of-chapter cumulative tests with answers given at the back of the book (What did you Learn?).

 

This Media Update features a Companion Website with pre- and post-tests with instant feedback, personalized study plans, animations, activities, tutorials, and myeBook with live links.

 

Key Topics:

Study Skills: Feeding Your Brain, Basic Math Review: Crunching the Numbers, Terminology: The ABC’s of Microbiology,

Chemistry: The Science of Stuff, Biology Basics: How Life Works, Cell Biology: Life’s Little Factories, Microbiology Basics: Tiny Organisms of Huge Importance

 

Market Description: Intended for readers interested in getting a head-start on learning microbiology