Campbell Biology in Focus, Global Edition

-Introduction: Evolution and the Foundations of Biology


UNIT 1: CHEMISTRY AND CELLS

-The Chemical Context of Life
-Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
-A Tour of the Cell
-Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
-An Introduction to Metabolism
-Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
-Photosynthesis
-The Cell Cycle


UNIT 2: GENETICS

-Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
-Mendel and the Gene Idea
-The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
-The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
-Gene Expression: From Gene to Protein
-Regulation of Gene Expression
-Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer
-Viruses
-Genomes and Their Evolution


UNIT 3: EVOLUTION

-Descent with Modification
-Phylogeny
-The Evolution of Populations
-The Origin of Species
-Broad Patterns of Evolution


UNIT 4: THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF LIFE

-Early Life and the Diversification of Prokaryotes
-The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes
-The Colonization of Land
-The Rise of Animal Diversity


UNIT 5: PLANT FORM AND FUNCTION

-Vascular Plant Structure and Growth
-Resource Acquisition, Nutrition, and Transport in Vascular Plants
-Reproduction and Domestication of Flowering Plants
-Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals


UNIT 6: ANIMAL FORM AND FUNCTION

-The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation
-Animal Nutrition
-Circulation and Gas Exchange
-The Immune System
-Reproduction and Development
-Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
-Nervous and Sensory Systems
-Motor Mechanisms and Behavior


UNIT 7: ECOLOGY

-Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms
-Ecological Communities
-Ecosystems and Energy
-Conservation Biology and Global Change


APPENDICES

-A. Answers
-B. Periodic Table of the Elements
-C. The Metric System
-D. A Comparison of the Light Microscope and the Electron Microscope
-E. Classification of Life
-F. Scientific Skills Review
-G. Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes for Learning Vocabulary