Biology : a guide to the natural world /
David Krogh
- 2nd edition.
- Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson /prentice Hall, c2002.
- xxxv, (various pagings) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Life's components: water, ph. and biological molecules 4. Life's home: The cell 5. Life's boarder: the plasma membrane
Unit 2. Energy and its transformations 6. Life's main spring: 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. An introduction to genetics: Mitosis and cytokinesis 10. Preparing for sexual reproduction: Meiosis 11. The first geneticist: Mendel and his discoveries etc...
Unit 4. Life's organizing principle: evolution and the diversity of life 16. An introduction to evolution: Charles Darwin, evolutionary thought and 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 etc...
Unit 5. A bounty that feed 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 human anatomy and physiology: The integumentary, skeletal and muscular systems 26. Control and defense: The nervous, endocrine and immune systems 27. Transport, nutrition and exchange: Blood, breath, digestion and elimination etc.
Unit 7. The living world as a whole: ecology and animal behavior An interactive living world: Populations and communities in ecology An interactive living world: Ecosystems and the biosphere Animal behavior