Biology

Biology

Peter Raven McGraw-Hill Higher Education 8th Edition ISBN: 9780072965810
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BIOLOGY is an authoritative majors textbook with evolution as a unifying theme. In revising the text, McGraw-Hill has consulted extensively with previous users, noted experts and professors in the field. It is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity.

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Table of Contents

  • Front Matter
  • chapter 1 The Science of Biology
  • chapter 2 The Nature of Molecules
  • chapter 3 The Chemical Building Blocks of Life
  • chapter 4 Cell Structure
  • chapter 5 Membranes
  • chapter 6 Energy and Metabolism
  • chapter 7 How Cells Harvest Energy
  • chapter 8 Photosynthesis
  • chapter 9 Cell Communication
  • chapter 10 How Cells Divide
  • chapter 11 Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis
  • chapter 12 Patterns of Inheritance
  • chapter 13 Chromosomes, Mapping, and the Meiosis–Inheritance Connection
  • chapter 14 DNA: The Genetic Material
  • chapter 15 Genes and How They Work
  • chapter 16 Control of Gene Expression
  • chapter 17 Biotechnology
  • chapter 18 Genomics
  • chapter 19 Cellular Mechanisms of Development
  • chapter 20 Genes Within Populations
  • chapter 21 The Evidence for Evolution
  • chapter 22 The Origin of Species
  • chapter 23 Systematics and the Phylogenetic Revolution
  • chapter 24 Genome Evolution
  • chapter 25 Evolution of Development
  • chapter 26 The Tree of Life
  • chapter 27 Viruses
  • chapter 28 Prokaryotes
  • chapter 29 Protists
  • chapter 30 Overview of Green Plants
  • chapter 31 Fungi
  • chapter 32 Overview of Animal Diversity
  • chapter 33 Noncoelomate Invertebrates
  • chapter 34 Coelomate Invertebrates
  • chapter 35 Vertebrates
  • chapter 36 Plant Form
  • chapter 37 Vegetative Plant Development
  • chapter 38 Transport in Plants
  • chapter 39 Plant Nutrition and Soils
  • chapter 40 Plant Defense Responses
  • chapter 41 Sensory Systems in Plants
  • chapter 42 Plant Reproduction
  • chapter 43 The Animal Body and Principles of Regulation
  • chapter 44 The Nervous System
  • chapter 45 Sensory Systems
  • chapter 46 The Endocrine System
  • chapter 47 The Musculoskeletal System
  • chapter 48 The Digestive System
  • chapter 49 The Circulatory and Respiratory Systems
  • chapter 50 Temperature, Osmotic Regulation, and the Urinary System
  • chapter 51 The Immune System
  • chapter 52 The Reproductive System
  • chapter 53 Animal Development
  • chapter 54 Behavioral Biology
  • chapter 55 Population Ecology
  • chapter 56 Community Ecology
  • chapter 57 Dynamics of Ecosystems
  • chapter 58 The Biosphere
  • chapter 59 Conservation Biology
  • glossary
  • credits
  • index

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