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100 1 $aCampbell, Neil A.,$d1946-2004.
245 10 $aEssential biology /$cNeil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece, Eric J. Simon.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aSan Francisco :$bPearson/Benjamin Cummings,$c℗♭2004.
300 $axxxi, 464, [44] pages :$bcolor illustrations, color maps ;$c28 cm +$e1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction : biology today -- The scope of biology -- Life at its many levels -- Life in its diverse forms -- Evolution : biology's unifying theme -- The Darwinian view of life -- Natural selection -- The process of science -- Discovery science -- Hypothesis-driven science -- A case study in the process of science -- The culture of science -- Theories in science -- Science, technology, and society -- unit 1. Cells -- 2. Essential chemistry for biology -- Biology and society : fluoride in the water -- Tracing life down to the chemical level -- Some basic chemistry -- Matter : elements and compounds -- Atoms -- Chemical bonding and molecules -- Chemical reactions -- Water and life -- The structure of water -- Water's life-supporting properties -- Acids, bases, and pH -- Evolution connection : Earth before life -- 3. The molecules of life -- Biology and society : got lactose? -- Organic molecules -- Carbon chemistry -- Giant molecules from smaller building blocks -- Biological molecules -- Carbohydrates -- Lipids -- Proteins -- Nucleic acids -- Evolution connection : DNA and proteins as evolutionary tape measures -- 4. A tour of the cell -- Biology and society : drugs that target cells -- The microscopic world of cells -- Microscopes as windows to cells -- The two major categories of cells -- A panoramic view of eukaryotic cells -- Membrane structure and function -- A fluid mosaic of lipids and proteins -- Selective permeability -- The nucleus and ribosomes : genetic control of the cell -- Structure and function of the nucleus -- Ribosomes -- How DNA controls the cell -- The endomembrane system : manufacturing and distributing cellular products -- The endoplasmic reticulum -- The Golgi apparatus -- Lysosomes -- Vacuoles -- Chloroplasts and mitochondria : energy conversion -- Chloroplasts -- Mitochondria -- The cytoskeleton : cell shape and movement -- Maintaining cell shape -- Cilia and flagella -- Cell surfaces : protection, support, and cell-cell interactions -- Plant cell walls and cell junctions -- Animal cell surfaces and cell junctions -- Evolution connection : the origin of membranes -- 5. The working cell -- Biology and society : stonewashing without the stones -- Some basic energy concepts -- Conservation of energy -- Entropy -- Chemical energy -- Food calories -- ATP and cellular work -- The structure of ATP -- Phosphate transfer -- The ATP cycle -- Enzymes -- Activation energy -- Induced fit -- Enzyme inhibitors -- Membrane transport -- Passive transport : diffusion across membranes -- Osmosis and water balance in cells -- Active transport : the pumping of molecules across membranes -- Exocytosis and endocytosis : traffic of large molecules -- The role of membranes in cell signaling -- Evolution connection : evolving enzymes -- 6. Cellular respiration : harvesting chemical energy -- Biology and society : feeling the "burn" -- Energy flow and chemical cycling in the biosphere -- Producers and consumers -- Chemical cycling between photosynthesis and cellular respiration -- Cellular respiration : aerobic harvest of food energy -- The relationship between cellular respiration and breathing -- The overall equation for cellular respiration -- The role of oxygen in cellular respiration -- The metabolic pathway of cellular respiration -- Fermentation : anaerobic harvest of food energy -- Fermentation in human muscle cells -- Fermentation in microorganisms -- Evolution connection : life on an anaerobic Earth -- 7. Photosynthesis : converting light energy to chemical energy -- Biology and society : plant power -- The basics of photosynthesis -- Chloroplasts : sites of photosynthesis -- The overall equation for photosynthesis -- A photosynthesis road map -- The light reactions : converting solar energy to chemical energy -- The nature of sunlight -- Chloroplast pigments -- How photosystems harvest light energy -- How the light reactions generate ATP and NADPH -- The Calvin cycle : making sugar from carbon dioxide -- Water-saving adaptations of C ́and CAM plants -- The environmental impact of photosynthesis -- How photosynthesis moderates the greenhouse effect -- Evolution connection : the oxygen revolution.
505 0 $aunit 2. Genetics -- 8. The cellular basis of reproduction and inheritance -- Biology and society : a $50,000 egg! -- What cell reproduction accomplishes -- Passing on the genes from cell to cell -- The reproduction of organisms -- The cell cycle and mitosis -- Eukaryotic chromosomes -- The cell cycle -- Mitosis and cytokinesis -- Cancer cells : growing out of control -- Meiosis, the basis of sexual reproduction -- Homologous chromosomes -- Gametes and the life cycle of a sexual organism -- The process of meiosis -- Review : comparing mitosis and meiosis -- The origins of genetic variation -- When meiosis goes awry -- Evolution connection : new species from errors in cell division -- 9. Patterns of inheritance -- Biology and society : testing your baby -- Heritable variation and patterns of inheritance -- In an abbey garden -- Mendel's principle of segregation -- Mendel's principle of independent assortment -- Using a testcross to determine an unknown genotype -- The rules of probability -- Family pedigrees -- Human disorders controlled by a single gene -- Beyond Mendel -- Incomplete dominance in plants and people -- Multiple alleles and blood type -- Pleiotropy and sickle-cell disease -- Polygenic inheritance -- The role of environment -- The chromosomal basis of inheritance -- Gene linkage -- Genetic recombination : crossing over and linkage maps -- Sex chromosomes and sex-linked genes -- Sex determination in humans and fruit flies -- Sex-linked genes -- Sex-linked disorders in humans -- Evolution connection : the telltale Y chromosome -- 10. Molecular biology of the gene -- Biology and society : sabotaging HIV -- The structure and replication of DNA -- DNA and RNA : polymers of nucleotides -- Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix -- DNA replication -- The flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein -- How an organism's DNA genotype produces its phenotype -- From nucleotide sequence to amino acid sequence : an overview -- The genetic code -- Transcription : from DNA to RNA -- The processing of eukaryotic RNA -- Translation : the players -- Translation : the process -- Review : DNA -> RNA -> protein -- Mutations -- Viruses : genes in packages -- Bacteriophages -- Plant viruses -- Animal viruses -- HIV, the AIDS virus -- Evolution connection : emerging viruses -- 11. Gene regulation -- Biology and society : baby's first bank account -- From egg to organism : how and why genes are regulated -- Patterns of gene expression in differentiated cells -- DNA microarrays : visualizing gene expression -- The genetic potential of cells -- Reproductive cloning of animals -- Therapeutic cloning and stem cells -- The regulation of gene expression -- Gene regulation in bacteria -- Gene regulation in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells -- Regulation in the cytoplasm -- Cell signaling -- The genetic basis of cancer -- Genes that cause cancer -- The effects of lifestyle on cancer risk -- Evolution connection : homeotic genes -- 12. DNA technology -- Biology and society : hunting for genes -- Recombinant DNA technology -- From Humulin to genetically modified foods -- Recombinant DNA techniques -- DNA fingerprinting and forensic science -- Murder, paternity, and ancient DNA -- DNA fingerprinting techniques -- Genomics -- The human genome project -- Tracking the anthrax killer -- Genome-mapping techniques -- Human gene therapy -- Treating severe combined immunodeficiency -- Safety and ethical issues -- The controversy over genetically modified foods -- Ethical questions raised by DNA technology -- Evolution connection : genomes hold clues to evolution.
505 0 $aunit 3. Evolution and diversity -- 13. How populations evolve -- Biology and society : persistent pests -- Charles Darwin and The origin of species -- Darwin's cultural and scientific context -- Descent with modification -- Evidence of evolution -- The fossil record -- Biogeography -- Comparative anatomy -- Comparative embryology -- Molecular biology -- Natural selection and adaptive evolution -- Darwin's theory of natural selection -- Natural selection in action -- The modern synthesis : Darwinism meets genetics -- Populations as the units of evolution -- Genetic variation in populations -- Analyzing gene pools -- Population genetics and health science -- Microevolution as change in a gene pool -- Mechanisms of microevolution -- Genetic drift -- Gene flow -- Mutations -- Natural selection : a closer look -- Evolution connection : population genetics of the sickle-cell allele -- 14. How biological diversity evolves -- Biology and society : the impact of asteroids -- Macroevolution and the diversity of life -- The origin of species -- What is a species? -- Reproductive barriers between species -- Mechanisms of speciation -- What is the tempo of speciation? -- The evolution of biological novelty -- Adaptation of old structures for new functions -- "Evo-devo" : development and evolutionary novelty -- Earth history and macroevolution -- Geologic time and the fossil record -- Continental drift and macroevolution -- Mass extinctions and explosive diversifications of life -- Classifying the diversity of life -- Some basics of taxonomy -- Classification and phylogeny -- Arranging life into kingdoms : a work in progress -- Evolution connection : just a theory? -- 15. The evolution of microbial life -- Biology and society : bioterrorism -- Major episodes in the history of life -- The origin of lie -- Resolving the biogenesis paradox -- A four-stage hypothesis for the origin of life -- From chemical evolution to Darwinian evolution -- Prokaryotes -- They're everywhere! -- The two main branches of prokaryotic evolution : bacteria and Archaea -- The structure, function, and reproduction of prokaryotes -- The nutritional diversity of prokaryotes -- The ecological impact of prokaryotes -- Protists -- The origin of eukaryotic cells -- The diversity of protists -- Evolution connection : the origin of multicellular life -- 16. Plants, fungi, and the move onto land -- Biology and society : the balancing act of forest conservation -- Colonizing land -- Terrestrial adaptations of plants -- The origin of plants from green algae -- Plant diversity -- Highlights of plant evolution -- Bryophytes -- Ferns -- Gymnosperms -- Angiosperms -- Plant diversity as a nonrenewable resource -- Fungi -- Characteristics of fungi -- The ecological impact of fungi -- Evolution connection : mutual symbiosis -- 17. The evolution of animals -- Biology and society : invasion of the killer toads -- The origins of animal diversity -- What is an animal? -- Early animals and the Cambrian explosion -- Animal phylogeny -- Major invertebrate phyla -- Sponges -- Cnidarians -- Flatworms -- Roundworms -- Mollusks -- Annelids -- Arthropods -- Echinoderms -- The vertebrate genealogy -- Characteristics of chordates -- Fishes -- Amphibians -- Reptiles -- Birds -- Mammals -- The human ancestry -- The evolution of primates -- The emergence of humankind -- Evolution connection : Earth's new crisis.
505 0 $aunit 4. Ecology -- 18. The ecology of organisms and populations -- Biology and society : the human population explosion -- An overview of ecology -- Ecology as scientific study -- A hierarchy of interactions -- Ecology and environmentalism -- Abiotic factors of the biosphere -- The evolutionary adaptations of organisms -- Physiological responses -- Anatomical responses -- Behavioral responses -- What is population ecology? -- Population density -- Patterns of dispersion -- Population growth models -- Regulation of population growth -- Human population growth -- Life histories and their evolution -- Life tables and survivorship curves -- Life history traits as evolutionary adaptations -- Evolution connection : testing a Darwinian hypothesis -- 19. Communities and ecosystems -- Biology and society : reefs : coral and artificial -- Key properties of communities -- Diversity -- Prevalent form of vegetation -- Stability -- Trophic structure -- Interspecific interactions in communities -- Competition between species -- Predation -- Symbiotic relationships -- The complexity of community networks -- Disturbance of communities -- Ecological succession -- A dynamic view of community structure -- An overview of ecosystem dynamics -- Trophic levels and food chains -- Food webs -- Energy flow in ecosystems -- Productivity and the energy budgets of ecosystems -- Energy pyramids -- Ecosystem energetics and human nutrition -- Chemical cycling in ecosystems -- The general scheme of chemical cycling -- Examples of biogeochemical cycles -- Biomes -- How climate affects biome distribution -- Terrestrial biomes -- Freshwater biomes -- Marine biomes -- Evolution connection : coevolution in biological communities -- 20. Human impact on the environment -- Biology and society : aquarium menaces -- Human impact on biological communities -- Human disturbance of communities -- Introduced species -- Human impact on ecosystems -- Impact on chemical cycles -- Deforestation and chemical cycles : a case study -- The release of toxic chemicals to ecosystems -- Human impact on the atmosphere and climate -- The biodiversity crisis -- The three levels of biodiversity -- The loss of species -- The three main causes of the biodiversity crisis -- Why biodiversity matters -- Conservation biology -- Biodiversity "hot spots" -- Conservation at the population and species levels -- Conservation at the ecosystem level -- The goal of sustainable development -- Evolution connection : biophilia and an environmental ethic -- Appendix A. Metric conversion table -- Appendix B. Answers to self-quiz questions -- Appendix C. Credits -- Glossary.
520 $aStudent CD-ROM includes: Activities, process of sciences, quizzes, flashcards, glossary.
530 $aAdditional material is available via the Internet.
538 $aSystem requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows. 166 MHz Intel Pentium processor; Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, or XP; 32 MB RAM installed; 1024 X 768 screen resolution; Browser: Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x, or Netscape Communicator 6.2; Plug-ins: Shockwave Player 8, Flash Player 5, QuickTime 4; 4x CD-ROM drive (for CD-ROM); Internet connection with 56K modem (for website).
538 $aSystem requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh. 120 MHz PowerPC; OS 8.6, 9.x, or X; 24 MB RAM available;1024 x 768 screen resolution; Browser: Internet Explorer 5.0 (web only) or Netscape Communicator 6.2;Plug-ins: Shockwave Player 8, Flash Player 5, QuickTime 4; 4x CD-ROM drive (for CD-ROM); Internet connection with 56K modem (for website).
650 0 $aBiology.
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