Table of Contents

Part I The Origin of Living Things
Chapter 1 The Science of Biology
Chapter 2 The Nature of Molecules
Chapter 3 The Chemical Building Blocks of Life
Chapter 4 The Origin and Early History of Life

Part II Biology of the Cell
Chapter 5 Cell Structure
Chapter 6 Membranes
Chapter 7 Cell-Cell Interactions

Part III Energetics
Chapter 8 Energy and Metabolism
Chapter 9 How Cells Harvest Energy
Chapter 10 Photosynthesis

Part IV Reproduction and Heredity
Chapter 11 How Cells Divide
Chapter 12 Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis
Chapter 13 Patterns of Inheritance

Part V Molecular Genetics
Chapter 14 DNA: The Genetic Material
Chapter 15 Genes and How They Work
Chapter 16 Control of Gene Expression
Chapter 17 Cellular Mechanisms of Development
Chapter 18 Altering the Genetic Message
Chapter 19 Gene Technology

Part VI Evolution
Chapter 20 Genes within Populations
Chapter 21 The Evidence for Evolution
Chapter 22 The Origin of Species
Chapter 23 How Humans Evolved

Part VII Ecology and Behavior
Chapter 24 Population Ecology
Chapter 25 Community Ecology
Chapter 26 Animal Behavior
Chapter 27 Behavioral Ecology

Part VIII The Global Environment
Chapter 28 Dynamics of Ecosystems
Chapter 29 The Biosphere
Chapter 30 The Future of the Biosphere
Chapter 31 Conservation Biology

Part IX Viruses and Simple Organisms
Chapter 32 How We Classify Organisms
Chapter 33 Viruses
Chapter 34 Bacteria
Chapter 35 Protists
Chapter 36 Fungi

Part X Plant Form and Function
Chapter 37 Evolutionary History of Plants
Chapter 38 Plant Body
Chapter 39 Nutrition and Transport in Plants

Part XI Plant Reproduction
Chapter 40 Early Plant Development
Chapter 41 How Plants Grow in Response to the Environment
Chapter 42 Plant Reproduction
Chapter 43 Plant Genomics

Part XII Animal Diversity
Chapter 44 The Noncoelomate Animals
Chapter 45 Mollusks and Annelids
Chapter 46 Arthropods
Chapter 47 Echinoderms
Chapter 48 Vertebrates

Part XIII Animal Form and Function
Chapter 49 Organization of the Animal Body
Chapter 50 Locomotion
Chapter 51 Fueling Body Activities
Chapter 52 Circulation
Chapter 53 Respiration

Part XIV Regulating the Animal Body
Chapter 54 The Nervous System
Chapter 55 Sensory Systems
Chapter 56 The Endocrine System
Chapter 57 The Immune System
Chapter 58 Maintaining Homeostasis
Chapter 59 Sex and Reproduction
Chapter 60 Vertebrate Development