Textbook Reading Guides

These worksheets are tailored to the current textbook:  Biology by Miller and Levine.   Most are specifically targeted to chapter sections – as in, students read the section of the chapter and answer very straightforward questions as they read.  I originally designed the reading guides to encourage freshman students to read the chapters.  Files have two formats: .html for simple viewing on the web, and doc filesword_icon, which can be easily edited using Microsoft word.

Chapter 1:  The Science of Biology

1-1 What is Science word_icon

1-2 How Scientists Work word_icon

1-3 Studying Life word_icon

1-4 Tools and Procedures word_icon

Ch 1 Review Guide word_icon

Ch1 Crossword Puzzle word_icon

millerChapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

7-1 Life is Cellular word_icon

7-2 Eukaryotic Cell word_icon

7-3 Cell Boundaries word_icon

Ch 7:  What Do You Know

Ch 7 Review word_icon

Ch 7-3 Review word_icon

Chapter 10:  Cell Growth & Division

10-1 Cell Growth and Division word_icon

10-3 Regulating the Cell Cycle word_icon

Ch 10 Review Guide word_icon

Ch 10 Crossword word_icon

Chapter 15:  Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

15-1, 15-2 Puzzle of Life’s Diversity word_icon

15-3 Darwin Presents His Case word_icon

Ch 15 Review word_icon

Ch 15 Crossword word_icon

Ch 16-3 – Speciation word_icon

Ch 17 – Patterns of Evolution word_icon

Chapter 18:  Classification

18-1:  Finding Order in Diversity word_icon

18-2:  Modern Classification word_icon

Ch 18 Review word_icon

Ch 18 What Do You Know word_icon

Ch 18 Reinforcement word_icon

Chapter 20:  The Protists

20-1, 20-2 Protists word_icon

20-3, 20-4 Plantlike Protists word_icon

Ch20 Review word_icon

Chapter 26: Sponges & Cnidarians

26-1: Intro to the Animal Kingdom word_icon

Ch 26 Review word_icon

Chapter 27:  Worms & Mollusks

27-1 Flatworms word_icon

27-2 Roundworms word_icon

27-3 Annelids word_icon

27-4 Mollusks word_icon

Ch 27 Review word_icon

Ch 27 Crossword (Mollusks, Annelids) word_icon

Chapter 28:  Arthropods & Echinoderms

28-1, 28-2 Arthropods word_icon

28-3 Insects word_icon

Chapter 30: Nonvertebrate Chordates, Fish and Amphibians

30-1 Chordates word_icon

30-2 Fishes word_icon

30-3 Amphibians word_icon

Ch 30 Review word_icon

Chapter 31:  Reptiles & Birds

31-1 Reptiles word_icon

31-2 Birds word_icon

Ch 31 Review Guide word_icon

Chapter 32: Mammals

31-1, 31-2  Intro to Mammals word_icon

32-3 Primates word_icon

34-1 Animal Behavior word_icon

34-2 Animal Behavior 2 word_icon

Ch 32 Review word_icon

Chapter 3: The Biosphere

Read 3-1, 3-2  What is Ecology

Read 3-3 Cycles of Matter

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

Read 4-1, 4-2: Climate & Ecosystems

Read 4-3: Biomes

Chapter 5: Populations

Read 5-1 | Read 5-2, 5-3

Chapter 11:  Mendelian Genetics

Read 11-1, 11-2  Mendel

Read 11-3 Dihybrid Crosses

Read 11-4 Meiosis

Chapter 13:  Genetic Engineering

13-1 Manipulating DNA 

13-4 Applications of Genetic Engineering

Review Guide:  Ch 12 & 13

Chapter 14: Human Genetics

14-1 Human Heredity

14-2  Human Chromosomes

14-3  DNA Analysis



If you are looking for the textbook reading guides for the old textbook, Holt, Rinehart, Winston’s “Biology: Principles & Explorations”, you can view the folder contents. I no longer update these worksheets because we no longer use that book.