Cell Biology for Health Sciences: An Active Learning Workbook provides active learning activities for the classroom and reflection exercises and questions to engage students planning to enroll in Health Science degrees, such as allied health programs or nursing. By focusing on active learning, our workbook places students in reflective scenarios about their learning to help them fully embrace their educational experience.
The workbook includes chapters on the following scientific topics:
- Properties of life and matter, the scientific method, and atomic structure
- Atomic bonds, chemical reactions, and the periodic table
- Properties of water, acids, bases, and pH
- Organic molecules, dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis, carbohydrates, and lipids
- Nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes
- Cell membranes, structure, and function
- Cells, organelles, cell specialization, and cell cycle
- Aerobic cellular respiration
- Gene expression, transcription, and translation
- Mitosis, meiosis, and inheritance
