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Alas, I phrased that carefully, as I’m not sure it’s the greatest INTRO bio\u00a0general text, which is my focus. It has a very mechanistic\/molecular bent, which aligns it perfectly with my bias. In truth, this post is as much about sharing it as a resource, as it is more-or-less free on line (more info below) and is accompanied by wonderful video tutorials that are also accessible. I’m referring to the textbook here, not the journal. The last (5th, 2008) edition is by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walters. Henceforth, I’ll just refer to it as “MBOC” or MBOC textbook…<\/p>\n

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Newsflash! Bruce Alberts receives special Lasker award for his educational work<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-danger\">Bias alert (and justification thereof):\u00a0<\/span>As alluded above, this goes straight to my preferences, but I think many of those are general: a focus on\u00a0<em>how<\/em> and\u00a0<em>why<\/em> rather than a barrage simply of what and what-is-it-named. It’s my view that few textbooks today reflect deeply thoughtful efforts at determining what should (and should not!) be put in as well as what is the a pedagogically sound order of topic introduction (I think this is a huge and critical consideration, and it’s deceptively difficult, in that\u00a0<em>everything<\/em> makes sense… if you already know it. Thinking like a student is hard!).<\/p>\n<p>The there there:<\/p>\n<p>The free, access-anything-you-can-find <a title=\"Link to MBOC textbook online at NIH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK21054\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0for the MBOC textbook<\/p>\n<p>Figures and text are clear, well thought out, and focused.<\/p>\n<p>The really well thought-out, <a title=\"Garland science videos to accompany MBOC textbook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/garlandscience\" target=\"_blank\">narrated videos<\/a> (legal!) that accompanied the textbook. These do a wonderful job of integrating\u00a0cartoons (with a\u00a0focus on the key elements and nothing extraneous) with actual 3D structures where these would be illuminating. As an example, here’s <a title=\"MBOC textbook translation video tutorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1PSwhTGFMxs\" target=\"_blank\">translation<\/a>, and here <a title=\"MBOC textbook tutorial video: G-protein signaling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V_0EcUr_txk\" target=\"_blank\">G-protein signaling<\/a>. I’m not sure what the exact relationship is, but I believe some of the original videos were done by <a title=\"Website of Graham Johnson's wonderful molecular tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fivth.com\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Johnson<\/a> (or perhaps the molecular modeling) and they’re wonderful. Here’s <a title=\"MBOC textbook video tutorial on EF-Tu and translation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fivth.com\/fiVthSite\/web-content\/NewFiles\/GrahamJcom\/web-content\/NewFiles\/gjPortfComp\/gjCBanim\/6EFTUgrahamGarland.mov\" target=\"_blank\">EF-Tu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In teaching Introductory Biology, I have so far decided that this isn’t the right textbook because it’s out of print, and it often works at a more sophisticated level than folks with no background in molecular biology can achieve. But I think it makes a great topic-specific reference, and as such can be assigned to all because of the free web availability (another drawback for making it a primary is that everyone would have to track down their used copy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, I phrased that carefully, as I’m not sure it’s the greatest INTRO bio\u00a0general text, which is my focus. It has a very mechanistic\/molecular bent, which aligns it perfectly with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbio.guru\/tBioWordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}