Biology : a guide to the natural world / David Krogh

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