Scientific American Biology: Scientific American: Biology for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories exploring the science concepts in context. Written by a team of two full-time college biology instructors and two science writers, with extensive input from non-majors instructors across the country, this book was developed to meet the different learning styles of the 21st century student.
Vector, searchable, copy found on TPB from Team Nanban. File is identical, just renamed.
Author(s): Michèle Shuster, Janet Vigna, Gunjan Sinha, Matthew Tontonoz
Edition: 1
Publisher: Scientific American, W. H. Freeman
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 539
Tags: Biology;Human biology
Brief Contents
UNIT 1: What Is Life Made of? Chemistry, Cells,
Energy
1.
Process of Science
1
Java Report
2. Chemistry and Molecules of Life 19
What Is Life?
3. Cell Function and Structure 39
Wonder Drug
4. Nutrition, Metabolism, Enzymes 59
Powerfoods
5. Energy Flow and Photosynthesis 81
Mighty Microbes
6. Dietary Energy and Cellular Respiration 101
Supersize Me?
UNIT 2: How Does Life Perpetuate? Cell Division
and Inheritance
7.
DNA Structure and Replication 121
Biologically Unique
Milestones in Biology The Model Makers 137
Watson, Crick, and the structure of DNA
8. Genes to Proteins 143
Medicine from Milk
Milestones in Biology Sequence Sprint 161
Collins and Venter race to decode the human
genome
9. Cell Division and Mitosis 169
Paramedic Plants
10. Genetic Mutations and Cancer 187
Fighting Fate
11. Single-Gene Inheritance and Meiosis 203
Rock for a Cause
Milestones in Biology Mendel’s Garden 221
An Austrian priest lays the foundation for modern
genetics
12.13.Complex Inheritance 229
Q&A: Genetics
Stem Cells and Cell DifferentiationGrow Your Own
253
UNIT 3: How Does Life Change over Time?
Evolution and Diversity
14. Natural Selection and Adaptation 271
Bugs That Resist Drugs
Milestones in Biology Adventures in
Evolution 289
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on the trail
of natural selection
15. Nonadaptive Evolution and Speciation 299
Evolution in the Fast Lane
16. Evidence for Evolution 321
A Fish with Fingers?
17. Life on Earth 339
Q&A: Evolution
18. Prokaryotic Diversity 359
Lost City
19. Eukaryotic Diversity 377
Rain Forest Riches
20. Human Evolution 395
What Is Race?
UNIT 4: What Makes Up Our Environment?
Ecology
21. Population Ecology 413
On the Tracks of Wolves and Moose
22. Community Ecology 431
What’s Happening to Honey Bees?
23. Ecosystem Ecology 449
The Heat Is On
24. Sustainability 471
Eco-Metropolis
