Biological Science Plus MasteringBiology with eText -- Access Card Package, 4th Edition

By Scott Freeman

Published by Benjamin Cummings

Published Date: Feb 3, 2010

Description

Supports and motivates you as you learn to think like a biologist.

Building upon Scott Freeman’s unique narrative style that incorporates the Socratic approach and draws you 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.

New to Freeman’s MasteringBiology^® online tutorial and assessment system are ten classic experiment tutorials and automatically-graded assignment options that are adapted directly from content and exercises in the book.

Package Components:

Biological Science, Fourth Edition
MasteringBiology® with Pearson eText Student Access Kit

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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