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Sommario
1. Can Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method
Unit One: Chemistry and Cells
2. Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience: Water, Biochemistry, and Cells
3. Is it Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Health? Nutrients and Membrane Transport
4. Body Weight and Health: Enzymes, Metabolism, and Cellular Respiration
5. Life in the Greenhouse: Photosynthesis and Climate Change
Unit Two: Genetics
6. Cancer: DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis
7. Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics
8. DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Profiling
9. Genetically Modified Organisms: Gene Expression, Mutation, Stem Cells, and Cloning
Unit Three: Evolution
10. Where Did We Come From? The Evidence for Evolution
11. An Evolving Enemy: Natural Selection
12. Who Am I? Species and Races
13. The Greatest Species on Earth? Biodiversity and Classification
Unit Four: Ecology
14. Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology
15. Conserving Biodiversity: Community and Ecosystem Ecology
16. Where Do You Live? Climate and Biomes
Unit Five: Animal Structure and Function
17. Organ Donation: Tissues and Organs
18. Binge Drinking: The Digestive and Urinary Systems
19. Clearing the Air: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems
20. Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril? Immune System, Bacteria, Viruses, and Other Pathogens
21. Human Sex Differences: Endocrine, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems
22. Is There Something in the Water? Reproductive and Developmental Biology
23. Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain? Brain Structure and Function
Unit Six: Plant Biology
24. Feeding the World: Plant Structure and Growth
25. Growing a Green Thumb: Plant Physiology
Riassunto
For non-majors biology courses.
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