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Biology: A Guide to the Natural World, CourseSmart eTextbook, 3rd Edition

By David Krogh

ISBN-10: 0-13-129175-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-129175-1What's this?

Published by Benjamin Cummings

© 2005

Pub. Date: Sep 15, 2004

Format: Electronic Book

Description

Known for examples and analogies that resonate with readers, this clearly-written book guides students through biology’s complex topics.

 

For courses in Introductory Biology for non-majors.Every aspect of Biology: A Guide to the Natural World was written and illustrated to guide non-majors through biological concepts and develop their sense of scientific literacy. It has come to be known as a book students enjoy reading. The Third Edition builds upon Krogh's popular strengths–an accessible and engaging writing style, an original illustration program, and a complete instructor and student resource package.

Table of Contents



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

UNIT 1. ESSENTIAL PARTS: ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND CELLS

 2. The Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry and Life

 3. Water, pH, and Biological Molecules

 4. Life's Home: The Cell

 5. Life's Border: The Plasma Membrane

UNIT 2. ENERGY AND ITS TRANSFORMATION

 6. Life's Mainspring: An Introduction to Energy

 7. Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy from Food

 8. The Green World's Gift: Photosynthesis

UNIT 3. HOW LIFE GOES ON: GENETICS

 9. Introduction to Genetics; Mitosis and Cytokinesis

10. Preparing for Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis

11. The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries

12. Chromosomes and Inheritance

13. 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

UNIT 4. LIFE'S ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE: EVOLUTION AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE

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

21. Fungi and Plants: The Diversity of Life 2

22. Animals: The Diversity of Life 3

UNIT 5. A BOUNTY THAT FEEDS US ALL: PLANTS

23. An Introduction to Flowering Plants

24. Form and Function in Flowering Plants

UNIT 6. WHAT MAKES THE ORGANISM TICK? ANIMAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

25. Introduction to Animal Anatomy and Physiology: The Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems

26. Communication and Control: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems

27. Defense: The Immune System

28. Transport, Nutrition, and Exchange: Blood, Breath, Digestion, and Elimination

29. An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development

30. How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction

UNIT 7. THE LIVING WORLD AS A WHOLE: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

31. An Interactive Living World: Populations and Communities in Ecology

32. An Interactive Living World: Ecosystems and the Biosphere

33. Animal Behavior

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