Biology

by Raven, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780073031200
• ISBN10: 0073031208
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-15
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

Summary

Take a New Look at Raven! "BIOLOGY" is an authoritative majors textbook focusing on evolution as a unifying theme. In revising the text, McGraw-Hill consulted with numerous users, noted experts and professors in the field. "Biology" is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity. The new 8th edition continues that tradition and advances into modern biology by featuring the latest in cutting edge content reflective of the rapid advances in biology. That same modern perspective was brought into the completely new art program offering readers a dynamic, realistic, and accurate, visual program. To view a sample chapter, go to www.ravenbiology.com

Table of Contents

Section A. General Principles
Part I The Origin of Living Things	1	(74)
The Science of Biology	3	(16)
The Nature of Molecules	19	(16)
The Chemical Building Blocks of Life	35	(24)
The Origin and Early History of Life	59	(16)
Part II Biology of the Cell	75	(66)
Cell Structure	77	(26)
Membranes	103	(20)
Cell-Cell Interactions	123	(18)
Part III Energetics	141	(64)
Energy and Metabolism	143	(16)
How Cells Harvest Energy	159	(24)
Photosynthesis	183	(22)
Part IV Reproduction and Heredity	205	(72)
How Cells Divide	207	(18)
Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis	225	(14)
Patterns of Inheritance	239	(38)
Part V Molecular Genetics	277	(142)
DNA: The Genetic Material	279	(20)
Genes and How They Work	299	(14)
Control of Gene Expression	313	(18)
Cellular Mechanisms of Development	331	(30)
Altering the Genetic Message	361	(28)
Gene Technology	389	(30)
Part VI Evolution	419	(74)
Genes within Populations	421	(18)
The Evidence for Evolution	439	(18)
The Origin of Species	457	(20)
How Humans Evolved	477	(16)
Part VII Ecology and Behavior	493	(76)
Population Ecology	495	(20)
Community Ecology	515	(18)
Animal Behavior	533	(20)
Behavioral Ecology	553	(16)
Part VIII The Global Environment	569	(78)
Dynamics of Ecosystems	571	(20)
The Biosphere	591	(20)
The Future of the Biosphere	611	(14)
Conservation Biology	625	(22)
Section B. Organismal Biology
Part IX Viruses and Simple Organisms	647	(86)
How We Classify Organisms	649	(16)
Viruses	665	(14)
Bacteria	679	(14)
Protists	693	(26)
Fungi	719	(14)
Part X Plant Form and Function	733	(60)
Evolutionary History of Plants	735	(18)
The Plant Body	753	(24)
Nutrition and Transport in Plants	777	(16)
Part XI Plant Growth and Reproduction	793	(80)
Early Plant Development	795	(12)
How Plants Grow in Response to Their Environment	807	(30)
Plant Reproduction	837	(16)
Plant Genomics	853	(20)
Part XII Animal Diversity	873	(108)
The Noncoelomate Animals	875	(24)
Mollusks and Annelids	899	(14)
Arthropods	913	(20)
Echinoderms	933	(12)
Vertebrates	945	(36)
Part XIII Animal Form and Function	981	(90)
Organization of the Animal Body	983	(16)
Locomotion	999	(18)
Fueling Body Activities: Digestion	1017	(20)
Circulation	1037	(16)
Respiration	1053	(18)
Part XIV Regulating the Animal Body	1071	(2)
The Nervous System	1073	(30)
Sensory Systems	1103	(22)
The Endocrine System	1125	(22)
The Immune System	1147	(26)
Maintaining the Internal Environment	1173	(22)
Sex and Reproduction	1195	(20)
Vertebrate Development	1215
Appendix	A-1
Glossary	G-1
Credits	C-1
Index	I-1