Life: the Science of Biology

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

PART ONE: THE SCIENCE AND BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE - The Science of Life and Its Evolutionary Framework - The Chemistry of Life - Macromolecules and the Origin of Life - PART TWO: CELLS AND ENERGY - Cells: The Working Units of Life - The Dynamic Cell Membrane - Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism - Pathways that Harvest Chemical Energy - Photosynthesis: Energy from Sunlight - PART THREE: HEREDITY AND THE GENOME - Chromosomes and Cell Division - 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 - PART FOUR: THE GENOME IN ACTION - Cell Signaling and Communication - Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology - Genome Sequencing, Molecular Biology and Medicene - Immunology: Gene Expression and Natural Defence Systems - Differential Gene Expression in Development - Development and Evolutionary Change - PART FIVE: THE PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF EVOLUTION - The History of Life on Earth - The Mechanisms of Evolution - Species and their Formation - The Evolution of Genes and Genomes - Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies - PART SIX: THE EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY - Bacteria and Archaea: The Prokaryotic Domains - The Origin and Diversification of the Eukaryotes - Plants without Seeds: From Sea to Land - The Evolution of Seed Plants - Fungi: Recyclers, Pathogens, Parasites, and Plant Partners - Animal Origins and the Evolution of Body Plans - Protostomate Animals - Deuterostomate Animals - PART SEVEN: FLOWERING PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION - The Plant Body - Transport in Plants - Plant Nutrition - Regulation of Plant Growth - Reproduction in Flowering Plants - Plant Responses to Environmental Challenges - PART EIGHT: ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION - Physiology and Homeostasis - Animal Hormones - Animal Reproduction - Animal Development - Neurons and Nervous Systems - Sensory Systems - The Mammalian Nervous System - Effectors: Making Animals Move - Gas Exchange - Ciculatory Systems - Nutrition, Digestion, and Absorption - Salt and Water Balance and Nitrogen Excretion - PART NINE: ECOLOGY - Ecology and the Distribution of Life - Behaviour and Behavioural Ecology - Population Ecology - Community Ecology - Ecosystems and Global Ecology - Conservation Biology