基本信息出版社：Benjamin Cummings
页码：776 页
出版日期：2008年08月
ISBN：0321505794
条形码：9780321505798
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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With over 22,000 entries, Henderson's Dictionary of Biology continues to be an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers within any of the biological sciences. This fourteenth edition has updated and revised many existing definitions, and has included new terms from exciting areas such as bioinformatics, proteomics, and genomics.

专业书评

With over 22,000 entries covering terms from all areas of the biological sciences, Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology continues to be the most comprehensive, up-to-date and relevant volume of its kind. This fourteenth edition has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics.

Key Features

clear definitions and additional explanations describes and explains terms from the full range of biological sciences includes new terms since the last edition, e.g. biodiesel, ficolins, hominin, intelligent design, pyrosequencing, quantitative PCR, quantum dots, quorum sensing, translational research includes simplified, up-to-date classification tables for the kingdoms of living organisms new appendix detailing the Geological Timescale

Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology continues to provide an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers in any of the biological sciences.

Eleanor Lawrence is a freelance science writer and editor, and co-author of Longman Dictionary of Environmental Science.