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This #1 best-selling non-majors text presents concepts in a modular format that helps students recognize and focus on main ideas, and is flexible enough for any professor's teaching style and syllabus. Biology: Concepts & Connections, Fifth Edition invites students into the world of biology with a new revision of this best-selling text. It is known for scientific accuracy and currency; a modular presentation that helps students to focus on the main concepts; and art that teaches better than any other book. The fifth edition builds upon this success with new features that help students synthesize and connect important topics such as Connecting the Concepts exercises and Key Concepts quizzes; and a variety of tools to help instructors enliven their lectures like our exclusive video clips from Discovery Channel.
| ISBN | 0321512448 | | Part volume | Media Update | | ISBN13 | 9780321512444
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Weight (grammes) | 2291 | | Imprint | Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc | | Published in | San Francisco | | Format | Multimedia Item | | Previous ISBN | 9780805371604 | | Publication date | 13 Mar 2007 | | Height (mm) | 276 | | DEWEY | 570 | | Width (mm) | 229 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Spine width (mm) | 33 | | Pages | 781 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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1. Biology: Exploring Life I. THE LIFE OF THE CELL 2. The Chemical Basis of Life 3. The Molecules of Cells 4. A Tour of the Cell 5. The Working Cell 6. How Cells Harvest Chemical Energy 7. Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food II. CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS 8. The Cellular Basis of Reproduction and Inheritance 9. Patterns of Inheritance 10. Molecular Biology of the Gene 11. The Control of Gene Expression 12. DNA Technology and the Human Genome III. CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION 13. How Populations Evolve 14. The Origin of the Species 15. Tracing Evolutionary History IV. THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 16. The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists 17. Plants, Fungi, and the Colonization of Land 18. The Evolution of Animal Diversity 19. Human Evolution V. ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION 20. Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function 21. Nutrition and Digestion 22. Gas Exchange 23. Circulation 24. The Body's Defenses 25. Control of the Internal Environment 26. Chemical Regulation 27. Reproduction and Embryonic Development 28. Nervous Systems 29. The Senses 30. How Animals Move VI. PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION 31. Plant Structure, Reproduction, & Development 32. Plant Nutrition & Transport 33. Control Systems in Plants VII. ECOLOGY 34. The Biosphere: An Introduction to Earth's Diverse Environments 35. Behavioral Ecology 36. Population Dynamics 37. Communities and Ecosystems 38. Conservation Biology
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