Biology
By: Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece [and others]
Edition: Second custom edition for Holyoke Community College.
Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1267
ISBN-13: 9780558939083
Subjects: Biology; Textbooks
Notes: "Taken from Biology, Eighth Edition / Neil A Campbell, Jane B Reece et al. 8th ed. c.2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Themes in the study of life; title: Unit 1. The chemistry of life; title: 2. The chemical context of life; title: 3. Water and the fitness of the environment; title: 4. Carbon and the molecular diversity of life; title: 5. The structure and function of large biological molecules; title: Unit 2. The cell; title: 6. A tour of the cell; title: 7. Membrane structure and function; title: 8. An introduction to metabolism; title: 9. Cellular respiration: Harvesting chemical energy; title: 10. Photosynthesis; title: 11. Cell communication; title: 12. The cell cycle; title: Unit 3. Genetics; title: 13. Meiosis and sexual life cycles; title: 14. Mendel and the gene idea; title: 15. The Chromosomal basis of inheritance; title: 16. The molecular basis of inheritance; title: 17. From gene to protein; title: 18. Regulation of gene expression; title: 19. Viruses; title: 20. Biotechnology; title: 21. Genomes and their evolution; title: Unit 4. Mechanisms of Evolution; title: 22. Descent with modification: a Darwinian view of life; title: 23. The evolution of populations; title: 24. The origin of species; title: 25. the history of life on Earth; title: Unit 5. The evolutionary history of biological diversity; title: 26. Phylogeny and the tree of life; title: 27. Bacteria and Archaea; title: 28. Protists; title: 29. Plant diversity 1: how plants colonized land; title: 30. Plant diversity 2: the evolution of seed plants; title: 31. Fungi; title: 32. An introduction to animal diversity; title: 33. Invertebrates; title: 34. Vertebrates; title: Unit 8. Ecology; title: 52. An introduction to ecology and biosphere; title: 53. Population ecology; title: 54. Community ecology; title: 55. Ecosystems; title: 56. Conservation biology and restoration ecology.