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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
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ISBN
9780321696625
Publisert
2011-01-07
Utgave
5. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc
Vekt
41 gr
Høyde
10 mm
Bredde
10 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Annet
Antall sider
880

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Biographical note

David Krogh has been writing about science for 27 years in newspapers, magazines, books, and for educational institutions. He is the author of Smoking: The Artificial Passion, an account of the pharmacological and cultural motivations behind the use of tobacco, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. In 1994, he began work on what would become Biology: A Guide to the Natural World, and in 1999 he completed its first edition. Since then, he has produced three more editions of A Guide to the Natural World along with a second textbook, A Brief Guide to Biology. He holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and history from the University of Missouri.