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Corrections for Science Insights/Exploring Living Things ©1999

As part of its Open Book Initiative, Pearson Education has established an Internet-based communication policy that alerts educators to any factual or typographical errors or areas of possible misunderstanding in its school programs. In accordance with this policy, Prentice Hall is alerting you to revisions made in Science Insights/Exploring Living Things ©1999.

We organized the corrections by category:
  • Corrections of factual errors
  • Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors
  • Changes for clarification, where the original wording or art could be improved to support student understanding
Publishers typically reprint books several times over the life of a copyright. Corrections can be made in each printing. Thus, depending on which printing of Science Insights/Exploring Living Things you have, these corrections may already appear in your textbook.
Key: Fig. = Figure
Ch. = Chapter
par. 1, par. 2, etc. = paragraph 1, paragraph 2, etc. (an incomplete paragraph at the top of a page is counted as paragraph 1)
ques. 1, ques. 2, etc. = question 1, question 2, etc.
col. 1, col. 2, etc. = column 1, column 2, etc.
ans. = answer

Student Edition
ISBN: 0-201-33281-7

Corrections of factual errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
10 Table 1.2, col. 3, row 3, line 2 "chemical machinist" "chemical engineer" 09-May-2000
28 Check Your Understanding, #5, line 3 "...1 m3 or 1 L?" "...50 mL or 1 L? 10-May-2000
33 Table 2.2, col. 2
"Asia 45,120
 Australia 8,550
 Europe 9,850"
"Asia 44,614
 Australia 7,687
 Europe 10,400"
09-May-2000
34 par. 2, line 3 "...extends 700 km above..." "...extends thousands of kilometers above..." 09-May-2000
42 par. 1, lines 6–7 "...about 70 percent water. This is true of most organisms." "...about 60 percent water. This is similar to many organisms." 09-May-2000
47 Concept Summary, 2.3 Needs of Living Things, bullet 3, line 3 "...of endothermic animals..." "...of ectothermic animals..." 10-May-2000
57 par. 2, lines 2–3 "...such as aluminum, iron, and magnesium..." "...such as aluminum and magnesium..." 09-May-2000
57 par. 2, lines 4–5 "Magnesium and iron are examples." "Magnesium is an example." 09-May-2000
57 Table 3.3, Human Body, rows 9–11
"Sulfur 0.25
 Chlorine 0.15
 Iron 0.1"
"Sulfur 0.25
 Sodium 0.2
 Chlorine 0.15"
09-May-2000
64 last par., line 5 "...body contains more than 100,000..." "...body contains around 30,000..." 09-May-2000
76 Historical Notebook, par. 1, last line "...magnify up to 270 times." "...magnify about 300 times." 09-May-2000
78 Fig. 4.3 caption "The animals cells (left) and plant cells (right) look different,..." "The animals cells (right) and plant cells (left) look different,..." 19-Jun-2000
89 Concept Summary, 4.2 Parts of a Cell, col. 2, lines 1–2 "Cytoplasm is the gel-like substance inside the cell that makes up the cell material." "Cytoplasm is the living material inside the cell except the nucleus." 09-May-2000
107 Concept Summary, 5.1 Movement of Substances, line 5 "...membrane by osmosis." "...membrane by osmosis and diffusion." 09-May-2000
159 par. 1, line 9 "...about 590 million years ago." "...about 570 million years ago." 09-May-2000
159 Cenozoic Era, line 3 "...appeared about 37 million..." "...appeared about 40 million..." 09-May-2000
159 time line labels above art
"590 million years ago
245 million years ago
66 million years ago"
"570 million years ago
245 million years ago
65 million years ago"
09-May-2000
168 par. 2, lines 6–7 "...between 1.5 and 2 million years ago, a species of Australopithecus developed..." "...around 2.5 million years ago, a species of hominid developed..." 09-May-2000
168 Historical Notebook, par. 2, line 6 "...skull and two large teeth!" "...skull!" 09-May-2000
168 Historical Notebook, par. 3, lines 3–4 "...Leakey has continued her work with her son, Richard Leakey." "...Leakey continued her work with her son, Richard Leakey. She died in 1996." 09-May-2000
173 Develop Your Skills, #1, time line, label 2 "First eukaryotes" Delete label. 09-May-2000
173 Develop Your Skills, #1, time line No label with leader line at "2 billions of years ago." Add label "First cells with nuclei" with leader line drawn to just below "2" on the time line. 09-May-2000
177 par. 4, Genus, line 4 "...such as the American black bear..." "...such as the Asiatic black bear..." 09-May-2000
188 Check Your Knowledge, #4, line 1 "A slime mold belongs..." "An oak tree belongs..." 10-May-2000
198 par. 1, line 1 "More than 100 different..." "More than 200 different..." 09-May-2000
203 col. 1, par. 2, line 3 "...is about 70 percent nitrogen..." "...is almost 80 percent nitrogen..." 09-May-2000
212 col. 1, par. 1, line 4 to par. 2, line 5 "...inside other organisms. They have no chloroplasts, so they must take in food from their surroundings.

Most protozoa are microscopic. Even so, they are much larger than bacteria. If an average protozoan were the size of a soccer field, then a bacterium would be the size of a soccer ball."
"...inside other organisms. Most protozoa are microscopic. Even so, they are much larger than bacteria. They have no chloroplasts, so they must take in food from their surroundings." 09-May-2000
216 par. 2, line 4 "...bloodstream where they develop..." "...bloodstream and then liver where they develop..." 09-May-2000
221 Check and Explain, #1, line 1 "Which two groups of algae contain only..." "Which group of algae contains only..." 09-May-2000
225 col. 2, par. 2, lines 6–7 "...from the air and the surface on which the lichen grows." "...from the air and rain." 09-May-2000
231 Develop Your Skills, #1, table, row 4 "Imperfect fungi 25,000" "Imperfect fungi 20,500" 09-May-2000
238 Bryophytes, line 6 "...20,000 species are known..." "...9,500 species are known..." 09-May-2000
239 Angiosperms, line 4 "...120 million years ago." "...130 million years ago." 09-May-2000
245 par. 1, lines 6–7 "...the cell's cytoplasm." "...the cell's cytoplasm and mitochondria." 09-May-2000
259 par. 3, line 1 "By about 300 million years..." "By about 350 million years..." 09-May-2000


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