Tenth revised edition of an illustrated, single volume reference book which contains definitions of words and terms used in biology, including the fields of genetics, botany, zoology, cell biology, human physiology and disease.
In this dictionary the authors' aim is to explain biological terms which a layman may meet when reading scientific literature; to define the terms which a student of biology has to master at the beginning of his career - the thousand or so words which so grimly guard the approaches to the science; and to provide a reminder for the professional biologist reading outside his own narrow field.