Urry, Lisa: Campbell Biology in Focus, Global Edition

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  1. Introduction: Evolution and the Foundations of Biology

UNIT 1: CHEMISTRY AND CELLS

  1. The Chemical Context of Life
  2. Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
  3. A Tour of the Cell
  4. Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
  5. An Introduction to Metabolism
  6. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
  7. Photosynthesis
  8. The Cell Cycle

UNIT 2: GENETICS

  1. Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
  2. Mendel and the Gene Idea
  3. The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
  4. The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
  5. Gene Expression: From Gene to Protein
  6. Regulation of Gene Expression
  7. Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer
  8. Viruses
  9. Genomes and Their Evolution

UNIT 3: EVOLUTION

  1. Descent with Modification
  2. Phylogeny
  3. The Evolution of Populations
  4. The Origin of Species
  5. Broad Patterns of Evolution

UNIT 4: THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF LIFE

  1. Early Life and the Diversification of Prokaryotes
  2. The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes
  3. The Colonization of Land
  4. The Rise of Animal Diversity

UNIT 5: PLANT FORM AND FUNCTION

  1. Vascular Plant Structure and Growth
  2. Resource Acquisition, Nutrition, and Transport in Vascular Plants
  3. Reproduction and Domestication of Flowering Plants
  4. Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals

UNIT 6: ANIMAL FORM AND FUNCTION

  1. The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation
  2. Animal Nutrition
  3. Circulation and Gas Exchange
  4. The Immune System
  5. Reproduction and Development
  6. Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
  7. Nervous and Sensory Systems
  8. Motor Mechanisms and Behavior

UNIT 7: ECOLOGY

  1. Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms
  2. Ecological Communities
  3. Ecosystems and Energy
  4. Conservation Biology and Global Change

APPENDICES

  • A. Answers
  • B. Periodic Table of the Elements
  • C. The Metric System
  • D. A Comparison of the Light Microscope and the Electron Microscope
  • E. Classification of Life
  • F. Scientific Skills Review
  • G. Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes for Learning Vocabulary


ISBN: 978-1-292-48521-8
GTIN: 9781292485218

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