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100 1 _aBailey, L. H.
_q(Liberty Hyde),
_d1858-1954
245 1 0 _aFirst course in biology
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aPart I by L. H. Liberty; Parts II and III by Walter M. Coleman.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-10
505 0 _aPart I, Plant Biology -- Part II, Animal Biology -- Part III, Human Biology.
508 _aGreg Bergquist, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"First course in biology" by L. H. Bailey and Walter Moore Coleman is a secondary-school biology textbook written in the early 20th century. It presents plant, animal, and human biology as a unified, practical course that favors observation, experiment, and everyday relevance over rote facts. Readers can expect clear explanations, abundant classroom and field exercises, and an ecological perspective that ties structure and function to environment. The opening of the textbook sets a reform-minded tone, advocating a single unit course in biology for secondary students and outlining flexible ways to sequence plant, animal, and human topics. A general introduction then builds essential chemistry and physics skills through simple experiments—testing acids and bases, starch, sugar, proteids, and fats; making oxygen; demonstrating oxidation; contrasting organic and inorganic matter; and analyzing a candle flame to reveal oxygen consumption, carbon (soot), and carbon dioxide. Plant Biology begins by stressing variation, environmental struggle, and selection (including human selection in breeding), then surveys plant societies (ecology), plant parts and life histories (annuals, biennials, perennials). It proceeds to seeds and germination with hands-on studies of beans, castor beans, corn, and gymnosperms, and concludes with root forms and functions—tap and fibrous systems, aerial and adventitious roots, root hairs and osmosis, nitrogen-fixing nodules, and the importance of moisture, temperature, and air—ending mid-discussion of root structure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The MacMillan Company, 1908
653 _aBiology -- Textbooks
653 _aBiology -- Laboratory manuals
700 1 _aColeman, Walter Moore,
_d1863-1926
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/firstcourseinbio00bailrich
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76851
999 _c117576
_d117576