The new schoolbook for contemporary biology teaching is vivid, clearly structured, modernly designed, and understandable. It covers recurring basic biological principles, with texts and illustrations that are consistently relevant to students and their school-leaving exams. The content is focused on the essential topics for the 8-year high school curriculum.

It promotes process-related competencies and includes context-related formulations with operators. The book features numerous representations of applied biology, allowing students to recognize a structure in the diversity of biological phenomena and to connect these concepts across the subareas of biology.

It also takes into account new knowledge from science and research, illustrating subject-specific methods and procedures. With various conceptual elements, it includes motivating introductory pages on applied biology that are interdisciplinary in nature.