Biology: A Guide to the Natural World, 5th Edition

1. Science as a Way of Learning: A Guide to the Natural World

2. Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry, Water, and pH

3. Life’s Components: Biological Molecules

4. Life’s Home: The Cell

5. Life’s Border: The Plasma Membrane

6. Life’s Mainspring: An Introduction to Energy

7. Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy from Food

8. The Green World’s Gift: Photosynthesis

9. The Links in Life’s Chain: Genetics and Cell Division

10. Preparing for Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis

11. The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries

12. Units of Heredity: Chromosomes and Inheritance

13. Passing On Life’s Information: DNA Structure and Replication

14. How Proteins Are Made: Genetic Transcription, Translation, and Regulation

15. The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: Biotechnology

16. An Introduction to Evolution: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Thought, and the Evidence for Evolution

17. The Means of Evolution: Microevolution

18. The Outcomes of Evolution: Macroevolution

19. A Slow Unfolding: The History of Life on Earth

20. Arriving Late, Traveling Far: The Evolution of Human Beings

21. Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, and Protists: The Diversity of Life 1

22. Fungi: The Diversity of Life 2

23. Animals: The Diversity of Life 3

24. Plants: The Diversity of Life 4

25. The Angiosperms: Form and Function in Flowering Plants

26: Body Support and Movement: The Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems

27. Communication and Control 1: The Nervous System

28 Communication and Control 2: The Endocrine System

29. Defending the Body: The Immune System

30. Transport and Exchange 1: Blood and Breath

31. Transport and Exchange 2: Digestion, Nutrition, and Elimination

32. An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development

33. How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction

34. An Interactive Living World 1: Populations in Ecology

35. An Interactive Living World 2: Communities in Ecology

36. An Interactive Living World 3: Ecosystems and Biomes