EDITION BY LISA URRY MICHAEL CAIN
STEVEN WASSERMAN, PETER MINORSKY,
AND REBECCA ORR COMPLETE COVERAGE
(CHAPTERS 1-56)
,TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Themes in the Study of Life
Chapter 2 – The Chemical Context of Life
Chapter 3 – Water and the Fitness of the Environment
Chapter 4 – Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
Chapter 5 – The Structure and Function of Large Biological Molecules
Chapter 6 – A Tour of the Cell
Chapter 7 – Membrane Structure and Function
Chapter 8 – An Introduction to Metabolism
Chapter 9 – Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Chemical Energy
Chapter 10 – Photosynthesis
Chapter 11 – Cell Communication
Chapter 12 – The Cell Cycle
Chapter 13 – Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
Chapter 14 – Mendel and the Gene Idea
Chapter 15 – The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
Chapter 16 – The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Chapter 17 – From Gene to Protein
Chapter 18 – Regulation of Gene Expression
Chapter 19 – Viruses
Chapter 20 – Biotechnology
Chapter 21 – Genomes and Their Evolution
Chapter 22 – Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life
Chapter 23 – The Evolution of Populations
Chapter 24 – The Origin of Species
Chapter 25 – The History of Life on Earth
Chapter 26 – Phylogeny and the Tree of Life
Chapter 27 – Bacteria and Archaea
,Chapter 28 – Protists
Chapter 29 – Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land
Chapter 30 – Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants
Chapter 31 – Fungi
Chapter 32 – An Introduction to Animal Diversity
Chapter 33 – Invertebrates
Chapter 34 – Vertebrates
Chapter 35 – Plant Structure, Growth, and Development
Chapter 36 – Resource Acquisition and Transport in Vascular Plants
Chapter 37 – Soil and Plant Nutrition
Chapter 38 – Angiosperm Reproduction and Biotechnology
Chapter 39 – Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals
Chapter 40 – Basic Principles of Animal Form and Function
Chapter 41 – Animal Nutrition
Chapter 42 – Circulation and Gas Exchange
Chapter 43 – The Immune System
Chapter 44 – Osmoregulation and Excretion
Chapter 45 – Hormones and the Endocrine System
Chapter 46 – Animal Reproduction
Chapter 47 – Animal Development
Chapter 48 – Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
Chapter 49 – Nervous Systems
Chapter 50 – Sensory and Motor Mechanisms
Chapter 51 – Animal Behavior
Chapter 52 – An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere
Chapter 53 – Population Ecology
Chapter 54 – Community Ecology
, Chapter 55 – Ecosystems
Chapter 56 – Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology