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9780632049172

The Diversity of Living Organisms

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  • ISBN13:

    9780632049172

  • ISBN10:

    0632049170

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-09-03
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Such is the pressure on teaching time in schools and universities that students are taught less and less of the diversity that is life on this planet. Most students, and indeed most professional biologists that these students become, know far more of cell function than of biodiversity. This text is profusely illustrated, quick reference guide to all types of living organism from the single-celled prokaryotes and eurkaryotes to the multicellular fungi, plants and animals. All surviving phyla and their component classes are characterised and described, as are their life-styles, ecology, relationships and within-group diversity (with orders displayed in list form). Overall, the book's aim is to provide biologists and others with a clear, concise picture of the nature of all groups of organisms with which they may be unfamiliar.

Author Biography

R. S. K. Barnes is the editor of The Diversity of Living Organisms, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii(2)
Preface ix(2)
Introduction xi
Part I: Superkingdom Prokarya 3(28)
1 Kingdom Bacteria
3(28)
Subkingdom Archaea
5(4)
Subkingdom Eubacteria
9(22)
Part II: Superkingdom Eukarya 31(304)
2 Kingdom Protoctista
31(80)
3 Kingdom Fungi
111(16)
4 Kingdom Plantae
127(44)
5 Kingdom Animalia
171(162)
Superphylum Parazoa
172(6)
Superphylum Phagocytellozoa
178(1)
Superphylum Radiata
179(12)
Superphylum Mesozoa
191(2)
Superphylum Acoelomata
193(13)
Superphylum Aschelminthes
206(14)
Superphylum Panarthropoda
220(35)
Superphylum Eutrochozoa
255(34)
Superphylum Lophophorata
289(11)
Superphylum Deuterostomia
300(33)
6 Further sources of information
333(2)
Index to groups of organisms 335

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