Principles of Life

by Hillis, David M.; Sadava, David E.; Heller, H. Craig; Price, Mary V.

• ISBN13: 9781429257213
• ISBN10: 1429257210
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Summary

For sample chapters, a video interview with David Hillis, and more information, visit www.whfreeman.com/hillispreview .Sinauer Associates and W.H. Freeman are proud to introducePrinciples of Life. Written in the spirit of the reform movement that is reinvigorating the introductory majors course,Principles of Lifecuts through the thicket of excessive detail and factual minutiae to focus on what matters most in the study of biology today. Students explore the most essential biological ideas and information in the context of the field's defining experiments, and are actively engaged in analyzing research data. The result is a textbook that is hundreds of pages shorter (and significantly less expensive) than the current majors introductory books.

Table of Contents

PART 1. CELLS
1. Introduction

2. Life Chemistry and Energy

3. Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Enzymes

4. Cells: The Working Units of Life

5. Cell Membranes and Signaling

6. Pathways that Harvest and Store Chemical Energy

 PART 2. GENETICS
7. The Cell Cycle and Cell Division

8. Inheritance, Genes and Chromosomes

9. DNA and its Role in Heredity

10. From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression

11. Regulation of Gene Expression

12. Genomes

13. Biotechnology

14. Genes, Development and Evolution

 PART 3. EVOLUTION
15.Evidence and Mechanisms of Evolution

16.Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies

17.Speciation

18.The History of Life on Earth

 PART 4. DIVERSITY
19. Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses

20. The Origin & Diversification of Eukaryotes

21. The Evolution of Plants

22. Fungi: Recyclers, Parasites, Pathogens, & Partners

23. Animal Evolution and Diversity 

 PART 5. PLANT FORM AND FUNCTION
24. The Plant Body

25. Plant Nutrition and Transport

26. Plant Growth and Development

27. Reproduction of Flowering Plants

28. Plants in the Environment

 PART 6. ANIMAL FORM AND FUNCTION
29. Physiology, Homeostasis, and Temperature Regulation

30. Animal Hormones

31. Immunology: Animal Defense Systems

32. Animal Reproduction

33. Animal Development

34. Neurons and Nervous Systems

35. Sensors

36. Effectors

37. Gas Exchange

38. Circulatory Systems

39. Nutrition, Digestion, and Absorption

40. Salt and Water Balance

41. Animal Behavior

 PART 7. ECOLOGY
42. Organisms in Their Environment

43. Interaction & Evolutionary Ecology

44. Community Ecology & the Distribution of Life

45. Ecosystem and Global Ecology

46. Conservation