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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Chapter 1: Exploring the Living World
• Living Things: Why Biologists Study Them, What Defines Them
• Meet Your Neighbors: Looking at Life on Earth
• Classifying Living Things
• Organizing Life into Smaller and Smaller Groups: Taxonomy
• Biodiversity: Our Differences Make Us Stronger
• Making Sense of the World through Observations
• Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Life
• Exploring Why Matter Matters
• The Differences among Atoms, Elements, and Isotopes
• Molecules, Compounds, and Bonds
• Acids and Bases
• Carbon-Based Molecules: The Basis for All Life
• Chapter 3: The Living Cell
• An Overview of Cells
• Peeking at Prokaryotic Cells
• Examining the Structure of Eukaryotic Cells
• Cells and the Organelles
• Presenting Enzymes, the Jump-Starters
• Chapter 4: Energy and Organisms
• What’s Energy Got to Do with It?
• Building Cells through Photosynthesis
• Cellular Respiration: Using Oxygen to Break Down Food
• Energy and Your Body
• Chapter 5: Reproducing Cells
• Reproduction: Keep On Keepin’ On
• How DNA Replication Works
• Cell Division: Out with the Old, In with the New
• How Sexual Reproduction Creates Genetic Variation
• This Budding’s for You: Asexual Reproduction
• Chapter 6: DNA and Proteins: Life Partners
• Proteins Make Traits Happen, and DNA Makes the Proteins
• Moving from DNA to RNA to Protein
• Mistakes Happen: The Consequences of Mutation
• Giving Cells Some Control: Gene Regulation
• Chapter 7: Ecosystems and Populations
• Ecosystems Bring It All Together
• Studying Populations
• Moving Energy and Matter around within Ecosystems
• Chapter 8: Understanding Genetics
• Heritable Traits and the Factors Affecting Them
• Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance
• Defining Key Genetics Terms
• Bearing Genetic Crosses
• Genetic Engineering
• Chapter 9: Biological Evolution
• What People Used to Believe
• Charles Darwin: Challenging Age-Old Beliefs
• Evidence of Biological Evolution
• Evolution versus Creationism
• Chapter 10: Ten Great Biology Discoveries
• Seeing the Unseen
• Creating the First Antibiotic
• Protecting People from Smallpox
• Defining DNA Structure
• Finding and Fighting Defective Genes
• Discovering Modern Genetic Principles
• Evolving the Theory of Natural Selection
• Formulating Cell Theory
• Moving Energy through the Krebs Cycle
• Amplifying DNA with PCR
• Index
• About the Authors
• Advertisement Page
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• End User License Agreement