Zoology by Miller and Harley 5th edition

Book Name

Zoology by Miller and Harley 5th edition

Author Miller and Harley

Book Publishers The McGraw−Hill

Language. English

Category Book Medical

Book Code 235

Paper Black 

Pages 538

Rs 2000

Book Quality Paper Black 

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ONLINE LEARNING CENTER

Both instructors and students can take advantage of numerous

teaching and learning aids within this book’s Online Learning

Center.

Instructor Resources

• Instructor’s Manual

• Laboratory Resource Guide

• Zoology Visual Resource Library (VRL), containing 1,000

images for classroom presentation

• PowerPoint Lecture Slides

Student and Instructor Resources

• Interactive Cladistics Laboratory

• Chapters on:

• Chapter 30: The Chemical Basis of Animal Life

• Chapter 31: Energy and Enzymes: Life’s Driving and Con-

trolling Forces

• Chapter 32: How Animals Harvest Energy Stored in

Nutrients

• Chapter 33: Embryology

• Chapter 34: Animal Behavior

• Boxed Readings

• Suggested Readings

• Readings on Lesser-Known Invertebrates

• Quizzing

• Key Terms Flashcards

• Zoology Essential Study Partner (ESP)

• Animations

• Free Zoology Screen Saver

All of these tools, and even more, are available to you with this

text. To access these resources, go to www.mhhe.com/zoology and

click on the title of this book. (Also, see pages xvi–xx for more

details.)

OTHER RESOURCES

The following items may accompany Zoology. Please consult your

McGraw-Hill representative for policies, prices, and availability as

some restrictions may apply.

• An Instructor’s Manual, prepared by Jane Aloi Horlings, is

available for instructors within the Online Learning Center. It

provides examples of lecture/reading schedules for courses

with various emphases. In addition, each chapter contains a

detailed outline, purpose, objectives, key terms, summary, re-

sources for audiovisual materials and computer software.

A Zoology Test Item File is also available for instructors. This

contains approximately 50 multiple-choice questions for each

chapter.

• General Zoology Study Guide, prepared by Jane Aloi and

Gina Erickson, contains subject-by-subject summaries, ques-

tions, and learning activities.

• A set of 100 full-color acetate transparencies is available to

supplement classroom lectures.

• General Zoology Laboratory Manual, fifth edition, by

Stephen A. Miller, is an excellent corollary to the text and in-

corporates many learning aids. This edition includes new il-

lustrations and photographs, plus activities on scientific

method, cladistics, ecological and evolutionary principles, and

animal structure and function. A Laboratory Resource

Guide, available within the Online Learning Center, provides

information about materials and procedures, and answers to

worksheet questions that accompany the lab exercises.

• Digital Zoology is a new and exciting interactive product de-

signed to help you to make the most of your zoology classes

and laboratory sessions. This program contains interactive

cladograms, laboratory modules, video, interactive quizzes,

hundreds of photographs, a full glossary, and much detailed

information about the diversity and evolution of the animals

that we find on the planet. To find out the latest news on

this ever-expanding product, log on to www.mhhe.com/

digitalzoology and find out how to get your copy.

• The Zoology Visual Resource Library is a dual-platform

CD-ROM that allows instructors to search with key words or

terms and access 1,000 images to illustrate classroom lectures,

with just the click of a mouse. It contains images from four

McGraw-Hill textbooks in the zoology field.

• Available through the Zoology Online Learning Center, the

Zoology Essential Study Partner is a complete, interactive

study tool offering animations and learning activities to help

students understand complex zoology concepts. This valuable

resource also includes self-quizzing to help students review

each topic.

• BioCourse.com is an electronic meeting place for students

and instructors. Its breadth and depth go beyond our Online

Learning Center to offer six major areas of up-to-date and rel-

evant information: Faculty Club, Student Center, News Brief-

ing Room, BioLabs, Lifelong Learning Warehouse, and R & D

Center.

• PageOut® is the solution for professors who need to build a

course website. The following features are now available to

professors:

• The PageOut Library offers instant access to fully loaded

course websites with no work required on the instructor’s

part.

• Courses can now be password protected.

• Professors can now upload, store, and manage up to 10MB

of data.

• Professors can copy their course and share it with col-

leagues or use it as a foundation for next semester.

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1. The field of zoology is the study of animals. It is a very broad field with many

subdisciplines.

2. An understanding of evolutionary processes is very important in zoology because evolu-

tion explains the family relationships among animals and how the great variety of ani-

mals arose.

3. An understanding of ecological principles is very important in zoology because it helps

zoologists to understand the interrelationships among individual animals and groups of

animals. Understanding ecological principles also helps zoologists to understand how

human interference threatens animal populations and the human environment.

Zoology (Gr. zoon,  logos, to study) is the study of animals. It is one of the broadest fields in

all of science because of the immense variety of animals and the complexity of the processes

occurring within animals. There are, for example, over 20,000 described species of bony fishes

and over 300,000 described (and many more undescribed) species of beetles! It is no wonder

that zoologists usually specialize in one or more of the subdisciplines of zoology. They may

study particular functional, structural, or ecological aspects of one or more animal groups

(table 1.1), or they may choose to specialize in a particular group of animals (table 1.2).

Ichthyology, for example, is the study of fishes, and ichthyologists work to

understand the structure, function, ecology, and evolution of fishes. These studies have

uncovered an amazing diversity of fishes. One large group, the cichlids, is found in Africa

(1,000 species), Central and South America (300 species), India (3 species) and North

America (1 species). Members of this group have an enormous variety of color patterns

(figure 1.1), habitats, and body forms. Ichthyologists have described a wide variety of

feeding habits in cichlids. These fish include algae scrapers, like Eretmodus, that nip algae

with chisel-like teeth; insect pickers, like Tanganicodus; and scale eaters, like Perissodus.

All cichlids have two pairs of jaws. The mouth jaws are used for scraping or nipping food,

and the throat jaws are used for crushing or macerating food before it is swallowed.

Many cichlids mouth brood their young. A female takes eggs into her mouth after the

eggs are spawned. She then inhales sperm released by the male, and fertilization and develop-

ment take place within the female’s mouth! Even after the eggs hatch, young are taken back

into the mouth of the female if danger threatens (figure 1.2). Hundreds of variations in color

pattern, body form, and behavior in this family of fishes illustrate the remarkable diversity

present in one relatively small branch of the animal kingdom. Zoologists are working around

the world to understand and preserve the enormous diversity.