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Antonipillai J, Dharmadana D, Osman N, Tran N, Piva T, Valery C, (2025) Biology and Chemistry for Human Biosciences. RMIT Open Press
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This open textbook was adapted by RMIT staff from the following open textbooks:
“Biology and the Citizen (2023)” by Colleen Jones is licensed under CC BY 4.0
“Chem&121: Introduction to Chemistry” by David W Ball and Jessie A Key is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
“Chemistry for Biology 1190 Students” by Julia Wong is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
“Chemistry 2e” by Paul Flowers et al. is licensed under CC BY 4.0
“College Biology I” by Melissa Hardy is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
“Concepts of Biology – 1st Canadian Edition” by Charles Molnar and Jane Gair is licensed under CC BY 4.0
“Human Genetics” by Alexey Nikitin is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
“Introductory Organic Chemistry” by Carol Higginbotham is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
“Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis” by Tim Soderberg is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
“Principles of Chemistry” by TRU Open Learning is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
“UBC CHEM 154: Chemistry for Engineering” by LibreTexts is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Cover design
Cover design: Narin Osman and Juliana Antonipillai.
Cover image: Nabeela Dulull provided the background cell staining image taken through a confocal microscope at RMIT University, Bundoora.
