Biology: A Guide to the Natural World (2nd Edition)

1. Science as a Way of Learning a Guide to the Natural World. I. ESSENTIAL PARTS: ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND CELLS. 2. The Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry and Life. 3. Water, pH, and Biological Molecules. 4. Life's Home The Cell. 5. Life's Border: The Plasma Membrane. II. ENERGY AND ITS TRANSFORMATION. 6. Life's Mainspring: An Introduction to Energy. 7. Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy from Food. 8. The Green World's Gift: Photosynthesis. III. HOW LIFE GOES ON: GENETICS. 9. Introduction to Genetics; Mitosis and Cytokinesis. 10. Making Reproductive Cells: Meiosis. 11. The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries. 12. Chromosomes and Inheritance. 13. DNA Structure and Replication. 14. How Proteins Are Made: Genetic Transcription, Translation, and Regulation. 15. The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Biotechnology. IV. LIFE'S ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE: EVOLUTION AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE. 16. Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Thought, and the Evidence for Evolution: An Introduction to Evolution. 17. The Means of Evolution: Microevolution. 18. The Outcomes of Evolution: Macroevolution. 19. A Slow Unfolding: The History of Life on Earth. 20. Pond Dwellers, Log Eaters, and Self-Feeders: the Diversity of Life. 21. Movers and Shakers: The Animal Kingdom. V. A BOUNTY THAT FEEDS US ALL: PLANTS. 22. An Introduction to Flowering Plants. 23. Form and Function in Flowering Plants. VI. WHAT MAKES THE ORGANISM TICK? ANIMAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 24. Introduction to Animal Anatomy and Physiology: The Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems. 25. Control and Defense: The Nervous, Endocrine, and Immune Systems. 26. Transport, Nutrition, and Exchange: Blood, Breath, Digestion, and Elimination. 27. An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development. 28. How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction. VII. THE LIVING WORLD AS A WHOLE: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR. 29. An Interactive Living World: Populations and Communities in Ecology. 30. An Interactive Living World: Ecosystems and the Biosphere. 31. Animal Behavior.David Krogh is the author of 'Biology: A Guide to the Natural World (2nd Edition)', published 2001 under ISBN 9780130921789 and ISBN 0130921785.