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Corrections for Science Explorer/Book A: From Bacteria to Plants ©2000

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 corrections made in Science Explorer/Book A: From Bacteria to Plants © 2000.

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 Explorer/Book A: From Bacteria to Plants 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
0-13-434490-1

Corrections of factual errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
30 In Your Journal, lines 4–6 "...domestica, Hirudo medicinalis, and Cornus florida Then..." "...domestica and Hirudo medicinalis. Then..." 25-Nov-2001
58 par. 1, lines 4–6 "...long, whiplike structure that extends out through the cell membrane and cell wall. Using a back and forth motion, a flagelleum helps a cell...." "...long, whiplike structure that extends from the cell membrane and passes through the cell wall. A flagellum helps a cell...." 25-Nov-2001
88 par. 3, 4–5 "Diatoms move by shooting chemicals out of slits in their cell walls. This gives them a kind of jet propulsion." "Diatoms move by oozing chemicals out of slits in their cell walls. They then glide in the slime." 25-Nov-2001
164 par. 1, lines 3–4 "When a water flea enters a bladder the bladder snaps shut faster than you can blink." "When a water flea touches a sensitive hair on a bladder, the bladder flicks open. Faster than you can blink, the water flea is sucked inside, and the bladder snaps shut." 25-Nov-2001
193 #5, last line "...line.)" "...line. Also, not all graphs are linear. It may be more appropriate to draw a curve to connect the points.)" 25-Nov-2001

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
29 par. 1, last line "...crows have wings, feathers, and a beak." "...crows have wings, feathers, and beaks." 03-Aug-2000
82 par. 1, line 3 "...use psuedopods to..." "...use pseudopods to..." 11-Apr-2001
111 Fig. 1 caption, lines 1–2 "Plants have eukaryotic cells that are enclosed by a cell wall." "Plants have eukaryotic cells that are enclosed by cell walls." 25-Nov-2001
143 par. 2, last two lines "The seeds inside a coconut, for example, are carried..." "The seeds inside a coconut, for example, can be carried..." 10-Jul-2000
203 col. 3 "club mosses 133" "club mosses 134" 25-Nov-2001

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
23 par. 3, lines 7–8 "...trapping a bubble of water inside." "...trapping water inside." 25-Nov-2001
34 Checkpoint "Who first proposed the theory of evolution?" "Where did Darwin collect much of his data?" 10-Jul-2000
34 Fig. 13 caption, lines 10–11 "...needlelike beak to trap insects." "...needlelike beak to pick up insects." 25-Nov-2001
82 Exploring Protozoans, Food vacuole par., lines 1–2 "When the ends of two pseudopods fuse, they form a food vacuole." "When the ends of two pseudopods fuse around food, they form a food vacuole." 25-Nov-2001
84 par. 2, lines 3–4 "The zooflagellates produce chemicals that help the termites digest the wood that they eat." "The zooflagellates digest the wood that the termites eat, producing sugars for themselves and for the termites." 25-Nov-2001
155 Section 2 Review, #1 "...characteristics of gymnosperms?" "...characteristics of many gymnosperms?" 10-Jul-2000
159 Exploring the Life Cycle of an Angiosperm art, Step 4 Art shows a pollen grain's two nuclei that look identical to the pollen grain. New art shows a pollen grain's two nuclei as smaller, darker, and more oval than pollen grains. Also added label "sperm cells." 09-Sep-2000


Teacher's Edition
0-13-434571-1

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
35 Using the Visuals: Figure 14, third line from the end "...the wrist bones (carpels),..." "...the wrist bones (carpals),..." 19-Jul-2000

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
21 Exploring, The Experiments of Redi and Pasteur, par. 1, last two lines "...(The shape of the necks of the flasks)" "...(Whether or not he boiled the broth in the flask to kill any bacteria in the broth)" 19-Jul-2000


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