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9781319103040

Loose-leaf Version for Scientific American: Biology for a Changing World

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  • ISBN13:

    9781319103040

  • ISBN10:

    1319103049

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Loose-leaf
  • Copyright: 2017-12-22
  • Publisher: W. H. Freeman

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Summary

From the groundbreaking partnership of Macmillan Learning and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its impact on the way we live.



In Biology for a Changing World, two experienced educators and a science journalist explore the core ideas of biology through chapters written and illustrated in the style of a Scientific American article. Chapters don’t just feature compelling stories of real people—each chapter is a newsworthy story that serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors biology course. Updated throughout, the new edition offers new stories, enhanced plant and diversity coverage, and an expanded media program.



Biology for a Changing World is supported by its own dedicated (and fully updated) version of LaunchPad, which fully integrates an interactive e-Book, all student media, a wide range of assessment and course management features.

Table of Contents

UNIT 1 What Is Life Made Of? Chemistry, Cells, Energy


Chapter 1


Process of Science


Java Report


Making sense of the latest buzz in health-related news



Chapter 2


Chemistry of Life


Mission to Mars


Prospecting for life on the red planet



Chapter 3


Cell Structure and Function


Wonder Drug


How a chance discovery in a London laboratory revolutionized medicine



M1 Milestones in Biology


Scientific Rebel


Lynn Margulis and the theory of endosymbiosis



Chapter 4


Nutrition, Enzymes, Metabolism


The Peanut Butter Project


One doctor’s crusade to end malnutrition in Africa, one spoonful at a time



Chapter 5


Energy and Photosynthesis


The Future of Fuel?


Scientists seek to make algae into the next alternative energy source



Chapter 6


Dietary Energy and Cellular Respiration


New Story! The Sitting Disease


Understanding the causes and consequences of obesity



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UNIT 2 How Does Life Reproduce? Cell Division and Inheritance



Chapter 7


DNA Structure and Replication


Biologically Unique


How DNA helped free an innocent man



M2 Milestones in Biology


The Model Makers


Watson, Crick, and the structure of DNA



Chapter 8


Genes to Proteins


New Story! Bulletproof


Scientists hope to spin spider silk into the next indestructible super-fiber



M3 Milestones in Biology


Sequence Sprint


Venter and Collins race to decode the human genome



Chapter 9


Cell Cycle and Cell Differentiation


Grow Your Own


Is regenerative medicine the solution to organ transplantation?



Chapter 10


Mutations and Cancer


Fighting Fate


When cancer runs in the family, ordinary measures are not enough



Chapter 11


Simple Inheritance and Meiosis


Catching Breath


One woman’s mission to outrun a genetic disease



M4 Milestones in Biology


Mendel’s Garden


An Austrian monk lays the foundation for modern genetics



Chapter 12


Complex Inheritance


Q&A Genetics


Complexities of human genetics, from sex to depression


 



UNIT 3 How Does Life Change over Time? Evolution and Diversity



Chapter 13


Natural Selection and Adaptation


Bugs that Resist Drugs


Drug-resistant bacteria are on the rise. Can we stop them?



M5 Milestones in Biology


Adventures in Evolution


Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on the trail of natural selection



Chapter 14


Nonadaptive Evolution and Speciation


Urban Evolution


How cities are altering the fate of species



Chapter 15


Evidence for Evolution


A Fish With Fingers?


A transitional fossil fills a gap in our knowledge of evolution



Chapter 16


Life on Earth


Q&A Evolution


From moon rocks to DNA, clues to the history of life on Earth



Chapter 17


Prokaryotic Diversity


Lost City


Exploring life’s origins at the bottom of the sea



Chapter 18


Eukaryotic Diversity


New Story! Can Rubber Save the Rainforest?


A small state in Brazil aims to find out.



M6 Milestones in Biology


New! Shaking the Tree


A revised view of eukaryotic diversity may be the key to tackling deadly diseases



Chapter 19


Human Evolution


Skin Deep


Science redefines the meaning of racial categories


 



UNIT 4 How Do Organisms Interact? Ecology



Chapter 20


Population Ecology


On the Tracks of Wolves and Moose


Ecologists learn big lessons from a small island



Chapter 21


Community Ecology


What’s Happening to Honey Bees?


A mysterious ailment threatens a vital link in the food chain



Chapter 22


Ecosystem Ecology


The Heat Is On


From migrating maples to shrinking sea ice, signs of a warming planet



M7 Milestones in Biology


Progress or Poison?


Rachel Carson, pesticides, and the birth of the environmental movement



Chapter 23


Sustainability


The Makings of a Green City


One Kansas town reinvents itself sustainable



Physiology Chapters


Unit 5 What Makes Plants Unique? Plant Biology



Plant coverage now in two chapters


Chapter 24


Plant Growth and Reproduction


New Story! Plants 2.0


Is genetic engineering the solution to world hunger?



Chapter 25


Plant Physiology


Q&A Plants


Exploding seeds, carnivorous flowers, and other colorful adaptations of the plant world

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