Biology is designed for multi-semester biology courses for science majors. It is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand. To meet the needs of today’s instructors and students, some content has been strategically condensed while maintaining the overall scope and coverage of traditional texts for this course. Instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand—and apply—key concepts.

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the scientific reasons for the success of Mendel’s experimental workDescribe the expected outcomes of monohybrid crosses involving dominant and recessive allelesApply the sum and product rules to calculate probabilities

This series of videos focusing on calculus covers calculating derivatives, power rule, product and quotient rules, chain rule, implicit differentiation, derivatives of common functions.

This is the first of two collections of lecture notes used to teach first year calculus at San Jacinto College (Houston TX). The notes are formatted as presentation slides and were typeset using Beamer (LaTeX). All the main topics of a first semester course in calculus are addressed. In this sense, the notes are self-contained. However, if one deems it necessary to supplement the notes with a full textbook, I recommend one or more of these open-source textbooks:Hoffman, Dale, Contemporary Calculus. 2013Strang, Gilbert and Edwin Herman, Calculus Volume 2. 2016Guichard, David, Community Calculus. 2022