SUCCEED WITH MATH:
Every Student's Guide to Conquering Math Anxiety
Chapter 8. Biology:
Exploring Population Genetics
Biology used to be the one science that was comfortably free of mathematics, but during the past 35 years, college-level biology has probably changed more than any other basic science in the breadth and depth of its offerings and, above all, in its reliance on mathematics. In this chapter, we will explore how the biological sciences have become more quantitative and, taking a close look at the research project of a graduate student in microbiology, see how mathematical techniques are being applied today to biological research.
Earlier, biologists (or naturalists, as they used to be called)
could avoid mathematics because biology was not the experimental
science it has since become. Biologists did not formulate and
test hypotheses in a laboratory. They used their laboratories
for dissection and for controlled observation, but for a long
time their true laboratory remained the outdoors where living
things exist in their natural surroundings. They would track down specific organisms in nature, identify visible
similarities and differences among living things...
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