Features:
- More than 1,000 full-color, high-quality photographs and photomicrographs depict specimens as they would be seen in the laboratory.
- Updated photographs, illustrations, cladograms, and taxonomy throughout.
- Addition of foraminiferans, radiolarians, and chytrids, as well as the female urogenital system in the fetal pig dissections.
- Numerous dissections of plants as well as invertebrate and vertebrate organisms are presented for students who have the opportunity to conduct similar dissections. Sheep heart, eye, and brain dissections are among these.
- Clear, accurate, completely labeled figures include life-cycle illustrations.