Essentials of The Living World 5Th Edition By George Johnson – Test Bank

Dr. George B. Johnson is a researcher, educator, and writer. Born in 1942 in Virginia, he went to school in New Hampshire (Dartmouth), attended graduate faculty in California (Stanford), and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Washington College in St. Louis, the place he has taught freshman biology and genetics to undergraduates for over 35 years. Additionally Professor of Genetics at Washington College’s College of Medication, Dr. Johnson is a pupil of inhabitants genetics and evolution, authoring greater than 50 scientific journal publications. His laboratory work is famend for pioneering the research of beforehand undisclosed genetic variability. His subject analysis has centered on alpine butterflies and flowers, a lot of it carried out within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. Different ecosystems he has explored in recent times embody Brazilian and Costa Rican rain forests, the Florida Everglades, the seacoast of Maine, coral reefs off Belize, the ice fields and mountains of Patagonia, and, delightfully, vineyards in Tuscany.

A prolific author and educator, Dr. Johnson is the writer of seven nationally acknowledged faculty texts for McGraw-Hill, together with the vastly profitable majors texts Biology (with botanist Peter Raven) and three nonmajors’ texts: Understanding Biology, Essentials of The Living World, and The Living World. He has additionally authored two broadly used highschool biology textbooks, Holt Biology and Biology: Visualizing Life. Within the 30 years he has been authoring biology texts, over 3 million college students have been taught from textbooks Dr. Johnson has written