Comprehensive text for first year undergraduates. `The major advantage of that this publication offers over its competitors lies in its everyday almost simple language and style...with excellent analogies making theoretical ideas and concepts understandbale to the target audience', Kevin Edwardson, Science Coordinator, Sheffield College.
Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1: THE DIVERISTY OF ORGANISMS - Describing the Diversity of Organisms - Explaining The Diversity of Organisms: Natural Selection - PART 2: MOLECULES AND CELLS - Molecules and Life - Cell Structure and Function - Enzymes - Movement of Molecules - The Gene at Work - PART 3: ENERGY - Energy in Living Systems - Respiraton - Photosynthesis - PART 4: GENES AND LIFE CYCLES - Cell Division, Variation and Life Cycles - The Gene as the Unit of Inheritance - Reproduction in Animal Life Cycles - Reproduction in Plant Life Cycles - PART 5: THE WORKING ORGANISM - Homeostasis - Cell Communication: Chemicals - Cell Communication: Nerves - Plant, Soil and Atmosphere - Transport in Animals - Gas Exchange in Animals - Heterotrophic Nutrition - Excretion and Osmoregulation in Animals - Defence - Support and Movement - Development and Growth - PART 6: ORGANISMS IN CONTEXT - Population Ecology - Community Ecology - The Ecology of Ecosystems - Behaviour - PART 7: APPLIED TOPICS - Disease - Biotechnology
JULIAN SUTTON teaches Biology at Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Devon. He trained at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Liverpool University. His PhD research was in the field of plant population ecology.
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