TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPLEMENTS

McGraw-Hill offers various tools and technology products to support the second edition of Genetics, Analysis and Principles. Students can order supplemental study materials via their bookstore. Instructors can obtain teaching supplements by calling the Customer Service Department at 800-338-3987, by visiting our book website at www.mhhe.com/brooker, or by contacting their local McGraw-Hill sales representative.

This multimedia collection of visual resources allows instructors to utilize artwork from the text in multiple formats to create customized classroom presentations, visually based tests and quizzes, dynamic course website content, or attractive printed support material. The digital assets on this cross-platform CD-ROM are grouped by chapter within the following easy-to-use folders.

• Art Library – Full-color digital files of all illustrations in the book, plus the same art saved in unlabeled and gray scale versions, can be readily incorporated into lecture presentations, exams, or custom-made classroom materials. These images are also pre-inserted into blank PowerPoint slides for ease of lecture preparation.
• TextEdit Art Library – Every line art piece is placed into a PowerPoint presentation that allows the user to revise and/or move or delete labels as desired for creation of customized presentations and/or for testing purposes.
• Active Art Library – Active Art consists of art files that have been converted to a format that allows the artwork to be edited inside of PowerPoint. Each piece can be broken down to its core elements, grouped or ungrouped, and edited to create customized illustrations.
• Animations Library – Full color presentations involving key figures in the book have been brought to life via animation. These animations have been created using the art from the book. Therefore, the characters in the animation match those that are found in the book.
• Photo Library – Like the Art Library, digital files of all photographs from the book are available.
• Table Library – Every table that appears in the book is provided in electronic form.
• PowerPoint Lecture Outlines – Based on the information in the Instructor's manual described below, it is possible to create ready-made presentations that combine art and lecture notes for each of the 26 chapters of the book. Written by Johnny El-Rady, University of South Florida, these lectures can be used as they are, or can be customized to reflect your preferred lecture topics and sequences.

Instructor's Testing and Resource CD-ROM
The cross-platform CD-ROM contains the Instructor's Manual, Test Item File, and Solutions Manual/Study Guide, all available in both Word and PDF formats. The manual follows the order of sections and subsections in the textbook and summarizes the main points in the text, figures, and tables. The Instructor's Manual also includes links to relevant websites, the answers to the problem sets at the end of each chapter, and a Test Bank of additional questions that can be used for homework assignments and/or the preparation of exams. These additional questions are found in a computerized test bank utilizing Brownstone Diploma testing software to quickly create customized exams. This user-friendly program allows instructors to search questions by topic, format, or difficulty level; edit existing questions or add new ones; and scramble questions and answer keys for multiple versions of the same test.

Transparencies – A set of 600 transparency overheads includes nearly every piece of line art in the text. The images are printed with better visibility and contrast than ever before, and labels are large and bold for clear projection.

Course Delivery Systems – With help from our partners, WebCT, Blackboard, TopClass, eCollege, and other course management systems, instructors can take complete control over their course content. These course cartridges also provide online testing and powerful student tracking features. The Brooker Online Learning Center is available within all of these platforms.

Online Learning Center - Our book website, which is organized according to the chapters in the book, has a variety of activities and resources that include the following:

Interactive Genetic Problems - For chapters involving inheritance patterns and other quantitative problems (Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 24 & 25), students can set up crosses and attempt to predict the outcome according to genetic principles. Students have the freedom to alter parameters to see how such changes affect the outcome.

Computer Programs to Analyze Genetic Data - For Chapter 20, which involves issues of genomics and bioinformatics, students can access files that contain genetic data and run various types of computer programs. For example, students can use a DNA sequence file and run a program that translates it to an amino acid sequence according to the genetic code. This "hands on" learning should help students gain a greater appreciation for the tools of bioinformatics.

Tweaking the Experiment - For the in depth experiments that are found in each chapter, a self-help quiz is found. The questions ask the student to predict how changes in the experimental parameters may affect the outcome of the experiment. These quizzes should help the student to improve their skills of designing experiments and predicting their outcome according to genetic hypotheses.

Answers to Problem Sets - The answers to all of the problems in the book are given.

References - Classic and modern references to the literature are provided for each chapter.

Links - Internet links to a variety of websites that are related to the course material are available according to the relevant chapter.