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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.076 EAN: 9780878916023 ISBN: 0878916024 Label: Research & Education Association Manufacturer: Research & Education Association Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 576 Publication Date: 1998 Publisher: Research & Education Association Studio: Research & Education Association Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Book Description: This test preparation book includes five full-length exams with explanations modeled after the actual GRE in Biology. The major areas tested are cellular and molecular biology, organismal biology, ecology, evolution, and population biology. Includes a general biology review for all topics covered on the exam. For biology students bound for graduate school. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Decent source of GRE-like questionsIgnore the review portion of this book, because it's so riddled with errors, omissions, and half-truths that it's likely to hurt your score. (Some blatant examples: On page 12, in the table of amino acid properties and structures, Asn and Gln have the same structure. Also, Figure 2.6 (Oxidation of an Aldose...) and Figure 2.15 (Negative Feedback Inhibition...) are exactly the same. That's when I stopped reading.) However, it's worth buying a used copy just for the three practice tests/worked ... Read More Rating:  - Useful with other similar guidesIt is always a good idea to use several guides for GRE and similar tests preparation. This is one them. It becomes useful only when you study it along other test guides available in the market. Rating: - Full of egregious errors1. Page 17. Isoleucine is wrong. The methyl group goes on the other side. It looks like you are showing L-allo-isoleucine, which does not, to my knowledge, occur in biology. 2. Page 17. Threonine is completely wrong. It has a methyl, not an ethyl group built on Serine. You show it having 5 carbons when it has 4. 3. Page 19. Histidine is wrong. The CH2 off the central carbon of the amino-carboxyl end is shown attached to the wrong carbon atom in the pent-ring. They are showing a nonbiological ... Read More Rating:  - WORST review book.This was far and away the absolute worst review book I have ever seen for anything. It was full of poorly worded questions with even worse answer explanations. Tons of spelling and grammatical errors and other mistakes, like an answer being listed with the wrong letter. Is the letter or the answer correct? Who knows? These people need an editor, or need to go back to grade school. I can't believe they publish this book without spell checking it. Very frustrating to attempt to study out of this. Completely ... Read More Rating: - Horrible horrible horrible bookI don't even know where to begin with this book. Its written in granny print so just because the book looks huge and full of information its because the font is big enough for you to read from 10 feet away. Has very little information and this is evident when you start taking the "practice" exams in the back of the book. Sure they explain the answers but you wouldn't be able to find any of them in their so called "comprehensive" review. The practice tests are full of spelling, grammar, and answer errors. The ... Read More 
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