TY - BOOK AU - Losos, Jonathan B. AU - Mason, Kenneth A.,;Singer, Susan R.,;Raven, Peter H.;Johnson, George B. ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 9780071102025 (international edition : paperback) SN - 2 PY - 2008///;copyright 200846 CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Biology KW - Textbooks N1 - Includes index; The science of biology -- The nature of molecules -- The chemical building blocks of life -- Cell structure -- Membranes -- Energy and metabolism -- How cells harvest energy -- Photosynthesis -- Cell communication -- How cells divide -- Sexual reproduction and meiosis -- Patterns of inheritance -- Chromosomes, mapping, and the meiosis-inheritance connection -- DNA: the genetic material -- Genes and how they work -- Control of gene expression -- Biotechnology -- Genomics -- Cellular mechanisms of development -- Genes within populations -- The evidence for evolution -- The origin of species -- Systematics and the phylogenetic revolution -- Genome evolution -- Evolution of development -- The tree of life -- Viruses -- Prokaryotes -- Protists -- Overview of green plants -- Fungi -- Overview of animal diversity -- Noncoelomate invertebrates -- Coelomate invertebrates -- Vertebrates -- Plant form -- Vegetative plant development -- Transport in plants -- Plant nutrition and soils -- Plant defense responses -- Sensory systems in plants -- Plant reproduction -- The animal body and principles of regulation -- The nervous system -- Sensory systems -- The endocrine system -- The musculoskeletal system -- The digestive system -- The circulatory and respiratory systems -- Temperature, osmotic regulation, and the urinary system -- The immune system -- The reproductive system -- Animal development -- Behavioral biology -- Population ecology -- Community ecology -- Dynamics of ecosystems -- The biosphere -- Conservation biology; 5 ER -