BSCS biology
Subtitle: an ecological approach
By: BSCS
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Kendal / Hunt
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 777
ISBN-13: 9780787275259
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Biology; Ecology
Description: [This program] encourages you to investigate how organisms and their behaviors are shaped by their environments. You will ask questions about what happens as organisms and their environments interact. You will be introduced to the big pictures showing how different local environments fit together to form patterns of life on Earth.-Foreword.
Notes: "BSCS Green Version."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: World of life: Web of life; Populations; Communities and ecosystems; Matter and energy in the web of life; title: Continuity of life: Cell; Continuity through reproduction; Continuity through development; Heredity and genetic variation; Evolution, patterns and diversity; title: Diversity and adaptation in the biosphere: Ordering life in the biosphere; Prokaryotes and viruses; Eukaryotes, protists and fungi; Eukaryotes, plants; Eukaryotes, animals; title: Functioning organisms: Human animal, food and energy; Human animal, maintenance of internal environment; Human animal, coordination; Flowering plant, form and function; Flowering plant, maintenance and coordination; title: Patterns in the biosphere: Behavior, selection, and survival; Ecosystems of the past; Biomes around the world; Aquatic ecosystems; Managing human-affected ecosystems; title: Appendixes: General procedures for the laboratory; Supplementary investigations; Tables; A catalog of living things; title: Glossary.