00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862035749 Buklod 20160419122937.0 g||| | || || ta 160419s2015 nyua r |||1 u|eng d 9781259095689 (pbk.) 1259095681 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00020407563 BC-66345 Creative Mind Books Center Php 2,579.40 Prof. Teodora D. Balangcod DLC BAG rda eng QH 308.2 M312 2015 Mader, Sylvia S. author. Essentials of biology Sylvia S. Mader, Michael Windelspecht ; with contributions by Dave Cox, Gretel Guest. Fourth edition. New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill Education ©2015. xxvi, 699 pages in various pagings illustrations (chiefly color) 28 cm McGraw-Hill international edition. Includes index. The characteristics of life -- Evolution: the core concept of biology -- Science: a way of knowing -- Challenges facing science -- Atoms and atomic bonds -- Water's importance to life -- Acids and bases -- Cells under the microscope -- The plasma membrane -- The two main types of cells -- Eukaryotic cells -- Outside the eukaryotic cell -- What is energy? -- ATP: energy for cells -- Metabolic pathways and enzymes -- Cell transport -- Overview of photosynthesis -- The light reactions-harvesting energy -- The Calvin cycle reactions-making sugars -- Other types of photosynthesis -- Cellular respiration -- Outside the mitochondria: glycolysis -- Outside the mitochondria: fermentation -- Inside the mitochondria -- Metabolic fate of food -- The basics of cellular reproduction -- The cell cycle: interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis -- The cell cycle control system -- The cell cycle and cancer -- Characteristics of cancer -- The basics of meiosis -- The phases of meiosis -- Meiosis compared with mitosis -- Changes in chromosome number -- Mendel's laws -- Mendel's laws apply to humans -- Beyond Mendel's laws -- Sex-linked inheritance -- DNA and RNA structure and function -- Gene expression -- Gene regulation -- Biotechnology -- Stem cells and cloning -- Biotechnology products -- Genomics and proteomics -- Genes and gene mutations -- Chromosomal mutations -- Testing for genetic disorders -- Gene therapy -- Darwin's theory of evolution -- Evidence of evolutionary change -- Natural selection -- Microevolution -- Speciation and macroevolution -- The fossil record -- Systematics -- The viruses -- Viroids and prions -- The prokaryotes -- The protists -- Overview of the land plants -- Diversity of plants -- The fungi -- Evolution of animals -- Sponges and cnidarians: the early animals -- Flatworms, molluscs, and annelids: the lophotrochozoans -- Roundworms and arthropods: the ecdysozoans -- Echinoderms and chordates: the deuterostomes -- Human evolution -- Plant cells and tissues -- Plant organs -- Organization of leaves, stems, and roots -- Plant nutrition -- Transport of nutrients -- Plant hormones -- Plant responses -- Sexual reproduction in flowering plants -- Asexual reproduction and genetic engineering in plants -- The body's organization -- Organs and organ systems -- Homeostasis -- Open and closed circulatory systems -- Transport in humans -- Blood: a transport medium -- Respiratory system -- Urinary system and excretion -- Digestive system -- Nutrition -- The classes of nutrients -- Nutrition and health -- How to plan nutritious meals -- Overview of the immune system -- Nonspecific defenses and innate immunity -- Specific defenses and adaptive immunity -- Immunizations -- Immune system problems -- Nervous systems -- Endocrine system -- The senses -- The motor systems -- How animals reproduce -- Human reproduction -- Human embryonic development -- The scope of ecology -- The human population -- Characteristics of populations -- Life history patterns and extinction -- Ecology of communities -- Ecology of ecosystems -- Ecology of major ecosystems -- Conservation of biology -- Biodiversity -- Resources and environmental impact -- Sustainable societies. Biology Textbooks. Windelspecht, Michael 1963- author. Cox, Dave contributor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QH 308.2 M312 2015 Book