Biology Made Easy: An Illustrated Study Guide For Students To Easily Learn Cellular & Molecular Biology

Great book my daughter is in biology and I thought this would help it has alot of information that her teacher hasn't taught her she is loving it

Brought as a gift for great grandson, who is interested in biology. I skimmed through the book, it was easy for me to read. Just not sure about a 12 yo.

I wanted to learn more about cellular biology because of the corona virus. Unfortunately on page 20 the author stated that Darwin published his famous work in 1958, obvious error,1858-59. Shortly therafter he states that the presence of more dark peppered moths during aperiod of heavy soot,and later more light peppered moths in low soot conditions is proof of evolution of a new species. Completely erroneous. They are both peppered moths,not new species. The theory of evolution suggests new species takes eons of time. If they dont understand the basics and misrepresent the simple principles why would I go further, that is why I read the last chapter and disqualified my review. I may go back and read about virus reproductive mechanisms and maybe learn more about the vaccine mechanisms. I gave it a four rating so as not to insult the obvious knowledge and education the author possesses. More editing needed.

Good but text is not recommended for people who like colorful diagrams or words 😭

Bought this for our nephew who, for either having a poorly matched teachers or not enough one on one time, has struggled with Biology the last year or two in high school. Since he is an artist, he loves to see and understand how things come together, so the subject is of interest for him, but in terms of conceptually grasping the concepts he has struggled. Bought this for him as it contains many visual representations for common principles in biology, and thus far he seems to be resonating with it. So much to the point that he is revisiting old ideas he struggled with before, and coming to a stronger understanding of them. We will see how this performs when the report cards arrive, but we're feeling optimistic!

This book spends too long on simple things, and too little time explaining clearly the difficult, IMHO. And in some places, makes errors that could have been picked up by better editing. For example, on page 52, it says, "All neutral atoms have the same number of protons and neutrons." "Neutrons" should be replaced by "electrons." For someone newly coming to this material, this could be seriously confusing. Or on page 62, one finds "The dotted line between the bases in the middle are where these hydrogen bonds are located." But there are no dotted lines, and, worse, the concept of "bases" hasn't been introduced yet. The subsequent discussion of protein folding, and the forces which determine protein shape, is sketchy and confusing. In the next paragraph, we get, "the oxygen atoms and the hydrogen atoms on the amide parts of the protein..." But there has been no definition, or explanation, or even mention, of an "amide," prior to this sentence.

Perfect

helped me so much

Not many illustrations, in black and white, and lots of text. The subject is hard of course, but I found "Molecular biology for dummies' easier, or the video courses on Lecturio a lot better.

This resource has the potential to be an excellent entry level text; unfortunately there are heaps grammatical errors, sentence structure problems and factual inaccuracies that render this resource borderline useless. The formatting and structure of this resource could also use some improvement. Overall the resource is okay, but very far from perfect. Unfortunately a suboptimal resource text.

Excellent book with easy explanations of the basics. Highly recommended

Actually I found it easier to read Alberts et al Molecular biochemistry (1800 pages) than this. Did not realize that it is black and white and the pictures are sometimes low quality. Would do in a pinch as review material but I think it is too much to expect that complicated processes are compressed and still retain clarity.

Useful book