Life

WILLIAM K. PURVES, Harvey Mudd College, USA - DAVID SADAVA, Claremont Colleges, USA - GORDAN H. ORIANS, University of Washington, USA - CRAIG HELLER, Stanford University, USA

Life: Its Origins and Evolution - PART ONE: THE CELL - Life and Chemistry: Small Molecules - Life and Chemistry: Large Molecules - Cells: The Basic Units of Life - Cellular Membranes - Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism - Cellular Pathways that Harvest Chemical Energy - Photosynthesis: Energy from the Sun - PART TWO: INFORMATION AND HEREDITY - Chromosomes, the Cell Cycle, and Cell Division - Transmission Genetics: Mendel and Beyond - DNA and its Role in Heredity - From DNA to Protein: Genotype to Phenotype - The Genetics of Viruses and Prokaryotes - The Eukaryotic Genome and its Expression - Cell Signaling and Gene Expression - Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology - Molecular Biology and Medicine - Natural Defenses against Disease - PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT - Differential Gene Expression in Development - Animal Development: From Genes to Organism - Development and Evolutionary Change - PART FOUR: EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES - The History of Life on Earth - The Mechanisms of Evolution - Species and their Formation - Constructing and Using Phylogenies - Molecular and Genomic Evolution - PART FIVE: THE EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY - Bacteria and Archaea: The Prokaryotic Domains - Protists and the Dawn of the Eukarya - Plants without Seeds: From Sea to Land - The Evolution of Seed Plants - Fungi: Recyclers, Killers, and Plant Partners - Ancestors and Lophotrochozoans - Ecdysozoans: The Molting Animals - Deuterostomate Animals - PART SIX: THE BIOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANTS - The Plant Body - Transport in Plants - Plant Nutrition - Plant Growth Regulation - Reproduction in Flowering Plants - Plant Responses to Environmental Challenges - PART SEVEN: THE BIOLOGY OF ANIMALS - Physiology, Homeostasis, and Temperature Regulation - Animal Hormones - Animal Reproduction - Neurons and Nervous Systems - Sensory Systems - The Mammalian Nervous System: Structure and Higher Functions - Effectors - Gas Exchange in Animals - Circulatory Systems - Animal Nutrition - Salt and Water Balance and Nitrogen Excretion - Animal Behavior - PART EIGHT: ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY - Behavioral Ecology - Population Ecology - Community Ecology - Biogeography - Conservation Biology - Earth Systems Science