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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Evolution and the Foundations of Biology

UNIT 1 Chemistry and Cells

2 The Chemical Context of Life

3 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life

4 A Tour of the Cell

5 Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling

6 An Introduction to Metabolism

7 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation

8 Photosynthesis

9 The Cell Cycle

UNIT 2 Genetics

10 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles  

11 Mendel and the Gene Idea  

12 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance  

13 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance  

14 Gene Expression: From Gene to Protein  

15 Regulation of Gene Expression  

16 Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer  

17 Viruses

18 Genomes and Their Evolution

UNIT 3 Evolution

19 Descent with Modification  

20 Phylogeny  

21 The Evolution of Populations  

22 The Origin of Species  

23 Broad Patterns of Evolution

UNIT 4 The Evolutionary History of Life

24 Early Life and the Diversification of Prokaryotes  

25 The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes  

26 The Colonization of Land  

27 The Rise of Animal Diversity

UNIT 5 Plant Form and Function

28 Vascular Plant Structure and Growth  

29 Resource Acquisition, Nutrition, and Transport in Vascular Plants  

30 Reproduction and Domestication of Flowering Plants  

31 Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals

UNIT 6 Animal Form and Function

32 The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation  

33 Animal Nutrition  

34 Circulation and Gas Exchange  

35 The Immune System  

36 Reproduction and Development  

37 Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling  

38 Nervous and Sensory Systems  

39 Motor Mechanisms and Behavior

UNIT 7 Ecology

40 Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms  

41 Ecological Communities  

42 Ecosystems and Energy  

43 Conservation Biology and Global Change