Part I The Molecular Basis of Life
1 The Science of Biology
2 The Nature of Molecules and the Properties of Water
3 The Chemical Building Blocks of Life
Part II Biology of the Cell
4 Cell Structure
5 Membranes
6 Energy and Metabolism
7 How Cells Harvest Energy
8 Photosynthesis
9 Cell Communication
10 How Cells Divide
Part III Genetic and Molecular Biology
11 Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis
12 Patterns of Inheritance
13 Chromosomes, Mapping and the Meiosis—Inheritance Connection
14 DNA: The Genetic Material
15 Genes and How They Work
16 Control of Gene Expression
17 Biotechnology
18 Genomics
19 Cellular Mechanisms of Development
Part IV Evolution
20 Genes Within Populations
21 The Evidence for Evolution
22 The Origin of Species
23 Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Comparative Biology
24 Genome Evolution
Part V Diversity of Life on Earth
25 Origin and Diversity of Life
26 Viruses
27 Prokaryotes
28 Protists
29 Seedless Plants
30 Seed Plants
31 Fungi
32 Animal Diversity & the Evolution of Body Plans
33 Protostomes
34 Deuterostomes
Part VI Plant Form and Function
35 Plant Form
36 Transport in Plants
37 Plant Nutrition and Soils
38 Plant Defense Responses
39 Sensory Systems in Plants
40 Plant Reproduction
Part VII Animal Form and Function
41 The Animal Body and Principles of Regulation
42 The Nervous System
43 Sensory Systems
44 The Endocrine System
45 The Musculoskeletal System
46 The Digestive System
47 The Respiratory System
48 The Circulatory System
49 Osmotic Regulation and the Urinary System
50 The Immune System
51 The Reproductive Systems
52 Animal Development
Part VIII Ecology and Behavior
53 Behavioral Biology
54 Ecology of Individuals and Populations
55 Community Ecology
56 Dynamics of Ecosystems
57 The Biosphere and Human Impacts
58 Conservation Biology
Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St.
Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research
program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the
study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's
botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation
have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur
Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles,
and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the
National Research Council. Dr. George B. Johnson is a researcher,
educator, and author. Born in 1942 in Virginia, he went to college
in New Hampshire (Dartmouth), attended graduate school in
California (Stanford), and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at
Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught freshman
biology and genetics to undergraduates for over 35 years. Also
Professor of Genetics at Washington University’s School of
Medicine, Dr. Johnson is a student of population genetics and
evolution, authoring more than 50 scientific journal publications.
His laboratory work is renowned for pioneering the study of
previously undisclosed genetic variability. His field research has
centered on alpine butterflies and flowers, much of it carried out
in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. Other ecosystems he
has explored in recent years include Brazilian and Costa Rican rain
forests, the Florida Everglades, the seacoast of Maine, coral reefs
off Belize, the ice fields and mountains of Patagonia, and,
delightfully, vineyards in Tuscany.
A prolific writer and educator, Dr. Johnson is the author of seven
nationally recognized college texts for McGraw-Hill, including the
hugely successful majors texts Biology (with botanist Peter Raven)
and three nonmajors’ texts: Understanding Biology, Essentials of
The Living World, and The Living World. He has also authored
two widely used high school biology textbooks, Holt Biology and
Biology: Visualizing Life. In the 30 years he has been authoring
biology texts, over 3 million students have been taught from
textbooks Dr. Johnson has written
Kenneth A. Mason received his undergraduate degree in Molecular
Biology from the University of Washington, worked at UC Berkeley,
then pursued his PhD in Genetics at UC Davis. He has taught
Gentics, Microbial Genetics, Microbiology, Advanced Molecular
Genetics, Introductory Biology, and a Genetics Laboratory that he
designed.
Jonathan Losos is a Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the
Study of Latin America in the Department of Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Herpetology at the Museum of
Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Losos's research has
focused on studying patterns of adaptive ratiation and evolutionary
diversification in lizards. The recipient of several awards
including hte prestigious Theodosius Dobzhansky and David Starr
Jordan Prizes for outstanding young evolutionary biologists, Losos
has published more than 100 scientific articles. Tod Duncan is a
Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver.
He currently teaches firstsemester general biology and coordinates
first and second semester general biology laboratories.
Previously,he taught general microbiology, virology, the biology of
cancer, medical microbiology, and cell biology. Abachelor’s degree
in cell biology with an emphasis on plant molecular and cellular
biology from the Universityof East Anglia in England led to
doctoral studies in cell cycle control, and postdoctoral research
on themolecular and biochemical mechanisms of DNA alkylation damage
in vitro and in Drosophila melanogaster.Currently, he is interested
in factors affecting retention and success of incoming first-year
students in diversedemographics. He lives in Boulder, Colorado,
with his two Great Danes, Eddie and Henry
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