Description
Building upon Scott Freeman’s unique narrative style that incorporates the Socratic approach and draws students into thinking like a biologist, the Fourth Edition has been carefully refined to motivate and support a broader range of learners as they are introduced to new concepts and encouraged to develop and practice new skills. Each page of the book is designed in the spirit of active learning and instructional reinforcement, equipping novice learners with tools that help them advance in the course—from recognizing essential information in highlighted sections to demonstrating and applying their understanding of concepts in practice exercises that gradually build in difficulty.
The new edition makes it easier than ever for students to locate information and learn concepts, with:
- Remarkable “Big Picture” concept maps that help students synthesize information across chapters
- A complete answer key in the back of the book
- More concise discussions on selected topics with a clearer sub-heading structure for easier navigation
- A finely tuned art program with improved clarity and contrast among biology structures and an improved orientation for phylogenetic trees
An expanded BioSkills appendix at the end of the book helps students learn and practice foundational skills, which range from interpreting graphs to how to read a phylogenetic tree to common Latin and Greek word roots, and reading chemical structures.
CourseSmart textbooks do not include any media or print supplements that come packaged with the bound book.
Table of Contents
1. Biology and the Tree of Life
I. THE MOLECULES OF LIFE
2. Water and Carbon: The Chemical Basis of Life
3. Protein Structure and Function
4. Nucleic Acids and the RNA World
5. An Introduction to Carbohydrates
6. Lipids, Membranes, and the First Cells
II. CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
7. Inside the Cell
8. Cell-Cell Interactions
9. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
10. Photosynthesis
11. The Cell Cycle
III. GENE STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION
12. Meiosis
13. Mendel and the Gene
14. DNA and the Gene: Synthesis and Repair
15. How Genes Work
16. Transcription, RNA Processing, and Translation
17. Control of Gene Expression in Bacteria
18. Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes
19. Analyzing and Engineering Genes
20. Genomics
IV. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
21. Principles of Development
22. An Introduction to Animal Development
23. An Introduction to Plant Development
V. EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES AND PATTERNS
24. Evolution by Natural Selection
25. Evolutionary Processes
26. Speciation
27. Phylogenies and the History of Life
VI. THE DIVERSIFICATION OF LIFE
28. Bacteria and Archaea
29. Protists
30. Green Algae and Land Plants
31. Fungi
32. An Introduction to Animals
33. Protostome Animals
34. Deuterostome Animals
35. Viruses
VII. HOW PLANTS WORK
36. Plant Form and Function
37. Water and Sugar Transport in Plants
38. Plant Nutrition
39. Plant Sensory Systems, Signals, and Responses
40. Plant Reproduction
VIII. HOW ANIMALS WORK
41. Animal Form and Function
42. Water and Electrolyte Balance in Animals
43. Animal Nutrition
44. Gas Exchange and Circulation
45. Electrical Signals in Animals
46. Animal Sensory Systems and Movement
47. Chemical Signals in Animals
48. Animal Reproduction
49. The Immune System in Animals
IX. ECOLOGY
50. An Introduction to Ecology
51. Behavioral Ecology
52. Population Ecology
53. Community Ecology
54. Ecosystems
55. Biodiversity and Conservation
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Biological Science, CourseSmart eTextbook, 4th Edition
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$84.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60535-1
