Life: The Science of Biology

William K. Purves

Macmillan, 2001 - Science - 1044 pages

Authoritative, thorough, and engaging, Life: The Science of Biology achieves an optimal balance of scholarship and teachability, never losing sight of either the science or the student. The first introductory text to present biological concepts through the research that revealed them, Life covers the full range of topics with an integrated experimental focus that flows naturally from the narrative. This approach helps to bring the drama of classic and cutting-edge research to the classroom - but always in the context of reinforcing core ideas and the innovative scientific thinking behind them. Students will experience biology not just as a litany of facts or a highlight reel of experiments, but as a rich, coherent discipline.

Contents

• An Evolutionary Framework for Biology: 1
• INFORMATION: 6
• 33: 10
• Part One THE CELL: 16
• Structure and Behavior: 17
• Their Chemistry and Biology: 34
• Condensation Reactions: 35
• 9: 42
• Sugars and Sugar: 43
• Phospholipids form the core: 51
• The Organization of Cells: 55
• All cells are surrounded by a plas: 58
• Cellular Membranes: 79
• Energy Enzymes and Metabolism: 95
• Biological Catalysts: 102
• Metabolism and the Regulation: 108
• Cellular Pathways That Harvest Chemical Energy: 114
• Energy from the Sun: 136
• Light Absorption: 142
• Photorespiration and: 148
• Part Two INFORMATION AND HEREDITY: 154
• Chromosomes the Cell Cycle and Cell Division: 155
• A prophase chromosome consists: 163
• Mendel and Beyond: 176
• Mendels second law says that: 182
• DNA and Its Role in Heredity: 199
• DNA Replication: 206
• DNA Proofreading and Repair: 212
• The transforming principle: 201
• Genotype to Phenotype: 218
• DNA RNA and the Flow: 220
• 13: 237
• The Genetics of Viruses and Prokaryotes: 239
• Many plant viruses spread with: 243
• Operons are units of transcription: 251
• Control of Transcription: 254
• The Eukaryotic Genome and Its Expression: 259
• The nematode genome adds: 262
• RNA Processing: 268
• Cell Signaling and Communication: 279
• Transducers: 285
• 16: 293
• Differential Gene Expression: 294
• The Role of Polarity in Cell: 300
• Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology: 311
• Cloning Genes: 314
• Molecular Biology and Medicine: 331
• Protein as Phenotype: 332
• Human gene mutations come: 338
• 19: 351
• Natural Defenses against Disease: 353
• The Immune: 358
• The Humoral Immune: 362
• Part Three EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES: 378
• The History of Life on Earth: 379
• The Mechanisms of Evolution: 395
• How Do Genotypes Determine: 410
• Species and Their Formation: 413
• Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies: 425
• Molecular and Genomic Evolution: 438
• How Are Phylogenetic Trees: 448
• Phylogenetic Trees Have Many: 448
• The Future of Systematics 437: 448
• The Origin of Life on Earth: 450
• Part Four THE EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY: 458
• The Prokaryotic Domains: 459
• Prokaryotes in Their Environments: 466
• The Archaea: 472
• Protists and the Dawn of the Eukarya: 476
• General Biology of the Protists: 480
• Stramenopila: 487
• 28: 498
• From Sea to Land: 500
• Nontracheophyte sporophytes: 504
• The Surviving Nonseed: 511
• The Evolution of Seed Plants: 516
• Naked Seeds: 518
• The angiosperm life cycle features: 524
• Recyclers Killers and Plant Partners: 529
• Animal Origins and Lophotrochozoans: 543
• The Animal Way of Life: 544
• Complete Guts: 551
• Mollusks lost segmentation: 559
• The Molting Animals: 564
• The Arthropods and Their: 567
• Deuterostomate Animals: 577
• Complex Biradial: 579
• Part Five THE BIOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANTS: 602
• The Plant Body: 603
• Transport in Plants: 620
• Plasmodesmata and material: 632
• Plant Nutrition: 634
• Nitrogen Fixation: 640
• Plant Growth Regulation: 646
• Reproduction in Flowering Plants: 665
• Vernalization and Flowering: 675
• Plant Responses to Environmental Challenges: 679
• Part Six THE BIOLOGY OF ANIMALS: 692
• Physiology Homeostasis and Temperature Regulation: 693
• Thermostats regulate temperature: 699
• Animal Hormones: 712
• Hormonal Control of Molting: 715
• Mechanisms of Hormone Action: 728
• Animal Reproduction: 732
• Sexual Reproduction: 734
• Human Sexual Behavior: 745
• Animal Development: 752
• Animal Development: 753
• Producing the Body: 759
• Initiating: 765
• Human Pregnancy and Birth: 769
• Neurons and Nervous Systems: 773
• Neurons are the functional units: 775
• Neurons Synapses: 785
• Sensory Systems: 794
• Information Processing: 797
• Structure and Higher Functions: 814
• What is consciousness?: 829
• Making Animals Move: 831
• Skeletal muscle causes behavior: 835
• Skeletal Systems Provide Support: 841
• Gas Exchange in Animals: 849
• Mammalian Lungs and: 857
• Circulatory Systems: 866
• Will you die of cardiovascular dis: 878
• Control and Regulation: 882
• Animal Nutrition: 886
• Animals need mineral elements: 891
• Salt and Water Balance and Nitrogen Excretion: 910
• Blood is filtered in the glomerulus: 916
• Control and Regulation of Kidney: 921
• Animal Behavior: 925
• Deprivation and hybridization: 927
• Part Seven ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY: 946
• Behavioral Ecology: 947
• Females are the choosier sex: 952
• Population Ecology: 959
• Changes: 962
• Offspring are like money in: 969
• Community Ecology: 974
• Community Ecology: 975
• Some Species Have Major: 986
• Ecosystems: 991
• Global oceanic circulation is driv: 993
• Cycles of Materials through: 999
• Biogeography: 1007
• Temperate deciduous forests: 1018
• Tropical evergreen forests are rich: 1025
• Conservation Biology: 1030
• Some economic land uses are com: 1041
• Conservation Biology Glossary: 1060
• Index: 1085

Bibliographic information

• Title: Life: The Science of Biology
• Author: William K. Purves
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2001
• ISBN: 0716738732, 9780716738732
• Length: 1044 pages
• Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Biology