What a triumph! Today, biologists offer us a sweeping story of life's unity and diversity--how living things are built, how they work, how they got that way, and where they came from. In that story are fabulous clues to human health, reporduction, our connections with everything else on Earth, even our collective survival.
With this book, we offer a coherent introduction to that story. We weave examples of problem solving and experiments through its pages to show the power of thinking critically about the natural world. We highlight core concepts, current understandings, and research trends for major fields of biological inquiry. We explain the structure and function of a broad sampling of organisms in enough detail so students can develop a working vocabulary about life's parts and processes. We selectively introduce applications that may help studentssense the value of learning the core concepts.
1 Invitation to Biology
2 Life's Chemical Basis
3 Molecules of Life
4 How Cells Are Put Together
5 How Cells Work
6 Where It Starts-Photosynthesis
7 How Cells Release Chemical Energy
8 How Cells Release
9 Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction
10 Chromosomes and Human Genetics
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