Brief Contents
About the Authors iv 30 The Evolution and Diversity of Modern Gymnosperms
Improving Biology Education v and Angiosperms 611
Strengthen Problem Solving Skills and Key Concept 31 Fungi 633
Development with Connect xiii
Using Connect and Biology, 4th edition xiv
32 An Introduction to Animal Diversity 654
Contents xxi 33 The Invertebrates 668
34 The Vertebrates 702
1 An Introduction to Biology 1
Unit VI Flowering Plants
Unit I Chemistry 35 An Introduction to Flowering Plant Form and
2 The Chemical Basis of Life I: Atoms, Molecules, and Function 734
Water 23 36 Flowering Plants: Behavior 755
3 The Chemical Basis of Life II: Organic Molecules 44 37 Flowering Plants: Nutrition 774
Unit II Cell 38 Flowering Plants: Transport 790
39 Flowering Plants: Reproduction 811
4 General Features of Cells 68
5 Membrane Structure, Synthesis, and Transport 100 Unit VII Animals
6 An Introduction to Energy, Enzymes, and 40 Animal Bodies and Homeostasis 831
Metabolism 121
41 Neuroscience I: Cells of the Nervous System 849
7 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation 138
42 Neuroscience II: Evolution, Structure,
8 Photosynthesis 156 and Function of the Nervous System 872
9 Cell Communication 175 43 Neuroscience III: Sensory Systems 893
10 Multicellularity 194 44 Muscular-Skeletal Systems and Locomotion 919
Unit III Genetics 45 Nutrition and Animal Digestive Systems 938
46 Control of Energy Balance, Metabolic Rate, and Body
11 Nucleic Acid Structure, DNA Replication, and Temperature 959
Chromosome Structure 211 47 Circulatory Systems 977
12 Gene Expression at the Molecular Level 234 48 Respiratory Systems 999
13 Gene Regulation 257 49 Excretory Systems and the Homeostasis of Internal
14 Mutation, DNA Repair, and Cancer 281 Fluids 1023
15 The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis 300 50 Endocrine Systems 1044
16 Simple Patterns of Inheritance 325 51 Animal Reproduction 1069
17 Complex Patterns of Inheritance 347 52 Animal Development 1089
18 Genetics of Viruses and Bacteria 364 53 Immune Systems 1107
19 Developmental Genetics 386
20 Genetic Technology 406 Unit VIII Ecology
21 Genomes, Proteomes, and Bioinformatics 426 54 An Introduction to Ecology and Biomes 1131
55 Behavioral Ecology 1162
Unit IV Evolution 56 Ecology 1183
22 The Origin and History of Life on Earth 445 57 Species Interactions 1202
23 An Introduction to Evolution 467 58 Community Ecology 1223
24 Population Genetics 487 59 Ecosystem Ecology 1241
25 Origin of Species and Macroevolution 505 60 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology 1260
26 Taxonomy and Systematics 525
Appendix A: Periodic Table of the Elements A-1
Unit V Diversity Appendix B: Answer Key A-2
Glossary G-1
27 Archaea and Bacteria 545
Credits C-1
28 Protists 565
Index I-1
29 Plants and the Conquest of Land 588
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