Product Description

With over 22,000 entries, Henderson's Dictionary of Biology continues to be an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers within any of the biological sciences. This fourteenth edition has updated and revised many existing definitions, and has included new terms from exciting areas such as bioinformatics, proteomics, and genomics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193243 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 776 pages

From the Back Cover

With over 22,000 entries covering terms from all areas of the biological sciences, Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology continues to be the most comprehensive, up-to-date and relevant volume of its kind. This fourteenth edition has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics.

Key Features

• clear definitions and additional explanations
• describes and explains terms from the full range of biological sciences
•  includes new terms since the last edition, e.g. biodiesel, ficolins, hominin, intelligent design, pyrosequencing, quantitative PCR, quantum dots, quorum sensing, translational research
•  includes simplified, up-to-date classification tables for the kingdoms of living organisms
•  new appendix detailing the Geological Timescale

Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology continues to provide an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers in any of the biological sciences.

Eleanor Lawrence is a freelance science writer and editor, and co-author of Longman Dictionary of Environmental Science.

Customer Reviews

Probably THE biological dictionary
I own both this and its competitor the Oxford Dictionary of Biology. Henderson's feels more like the dictionary for university level people, having four times as many entries. However, to fit them all in, these are slightly less detailed and explanatory than the Oxford. Henderson's also has very few diagrams, unlike the Oxford.

A minor point is that the font in Henderson's is very small, though not quite uncomfortably so (for young eyes, anyway).

Overall, this is probably the one to get, simply for its completeness.

Good little book of reference
Firstly, great service from Amazon.
The book does everything and has everything you would expect. It's well writen and set out. Handy size. Only 3 stars because it's a dictionary so can not go into greater detail than you would expect, it can not give indepth analysis as a textbook could and it's not a thrill a page best seller, it's just a dictionary. It's also not illustrated