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Asking about Life

by: Tobin, Allan J.; Dusheck, Jennie

Asking about Life

by: Tobin, Allan J.; Dusheck, Jennie

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9780030720468
ISBN 10:
003072046X
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/17/1997
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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This exciting first-edition text is appropriate for the one- or two- semester non-majors or mixed majors/non-majors course. Tobin and Dusheck's Asking About Life has a unique approach to biology that emphasizes questions, experimentation, and principles of biology. The first edition recently won the Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association in the College Life Sciences category.

1 The Unity and Diversity of Life

(22)

I Chemistry and Cell Biology

(156)

2 The Chemical Foundations of Life

(26)

3 Biological Molecules Small and Large

(30)

4 Why Are All Organisms Made of Cells?

(34)

5 Directions and Rates of Biochemical Processes

114

(18)

6 How Do Organisms Supply Themselves with Energy?

132

(24)

7 Photosynthesis: How Do Organisms Get Energy from the Sun?

156

(23)

II Genetics: The Continuity of Life

179

(176)

8 Cell Reproduction

180

(22)

9 From Meiosis to Mendel

202

(32)

10 The Structure, Replication, and Repair of DNA

234

(30)

11 How Are Genes Expressed?

264

(26)

12 Jumping Genes and Other Unconventional Genetic Systems

290

(18)

13 Genetic Engineering and Recombinant DNA

308

(22)

14 Human Genetics

330

(25)

III Evolution

355

(110)

15 What Is the Evidence for Evolution?

356

(30)

16 Microevolution: How Does a Population Evolve?

386

(24)

17 Macroevolution: How Do Species Evolve?

410

(36)

18 How Did the First Organisms Evolve?

446

(19)

IV Diversity

465

(124)

19 Classification: What's in a Name?

466

(16)

20 Prokaryotes: How Does the Other Half Live?

482

(16)

21 Classifying the Protists and Multicellular Fungi

498

(24)

22 How Did Plants Adapt to Dry Land?

522

(18)

23 Protostome Animals: Most Animals Form Mouth First

540

(28)

24 Deuterostome Animals: Echinoderms and Chordates

568

(21)

V Ecology

589

(94)

25 Ecosystems

590

(18)

26 Communities: How Do Species Interact?

608

(16)

27 Biomes and Aquatic Communities

624

(20)

28 Populations and the Human Place in the Biosphere

644

(20)

29 The Ecology of Animal Behavior

664

(19)

VI Structural and Physiological Adaptations of Flowering Plants

683

(68)

30 Structural and Chemical Adaptations of Plants

684

(18)

31 What Drives Water Up and Sugars Down?

702

(16)

32 Growth and Development of Flowering Plants

718

(18)

33 How Do Plant Hormones Regulate Growth and Development?

736

(15)

VII Structural and Physiological Adaptations of Animals

751

34 Form and Function in Animals

752

(18)

35 How Do Animals Obtain Nourishment from Food?

770

(20)

36 How Do Animals Coordinate Cells and Organs?

790

(14)

37 Blood, Circulation, and the Heart

804

(18)

38 How Do Animals Obtain and Distribute Oxygen?

822

(20)

39 How Do Animals Manage Water, Salts, and Wastes?

842

(18)

40 Defense: Inflammation and Immunity

860

(18)

41 The Cells of the Nervous System

878

(18)

42 The Nervous System and the Sense Organs

896

(22)

43 Sexual Reproduction

918

(22)

44 How Do Organisms Become Complex?

940

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