- CHAPTER 3: Chemistry of Life UNIT 1: CELLS
- One Picture, a Thousand Experiments Ingredients for Life
- The World of Water
- The Smell of Success
- Getting the Right Mix
- Life’s First Steps
- Infographic: What’s It All Made Of?
- Fifty More Years
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 4: Life Is Cellular
- Life, Rewritten Engineering Life
- Starting Small
- Congratulations, It’s a Cell
- A Different Approach
- Through the Barrier
- Viruses—Living or Not?
- Another Way Through
- Prokaryotes versus Eukaryotes
- What’s in a Cell?
- Life Goes On
- Infographic: Sizing Up Life
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 5: HOW CELLS WORK Contents ■ ix
- Energy for Life Rock Eaters
- An Unusual Pathway
- Into the Light, Part
- Catalyzing Reactions
- Into the Light, Part
- Infographic: Making Way for Renewables
- Bacterial Batteries
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 6: Cell Division
- Divide and Conquer Toxic Plastic
- Trade Secret
- Cancer: Uncontrolled Cell Division
- Good Cells Gone Bad
- Unequal Division
- Shuffling the DNA
- What Can You Do?
- Ten Years Later
- Infographic: Cancer’s Big
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 7: Patterns of Inheritance UNIT 2: GENETICS
- Getting to the Genes Dog Days of Science
- Pet Project
- Crisscrossing Plants
- Peas in a Pod
- What Are the Odds?
- Going to the Dogs
- It’s Complicated
- Most Chronic Diseases Are Complex Traits
- Man’s Best Friend
- The New Family Pet?
- Infographic: Does Bigger Mean Better?
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 8: Chromosomes and Human Genetics
- A Mysterious Malady A Deadly Inheritance
- Painful Pedigree
- Looking for Loci
- X Marks the Spot
- Infographic: Genetic Diseases Affecting Americans
- More Common, but No Less Deadly: Zoe’s Story
- Deadly with One Allele
- Replacing Deadly Genes: A Work in Progress
- Prenatal Genetic Screening
- A Happy Ending for Felix
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 9: What Genes Are Contents ■ xi
- Deep in the DNA Pigs to the Rescue
- Precise Cuts
- Double or Nothing
- Making Mutations
- Pigs Are People Too?
- Infographic: The Meteoric Rise of CRISPR
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 10: How Genes Work
- Fighting the Flu with Tobacco Tobacco’s New Leaf
- Two-Step Dance, Transcription: DNA to RNA
- Two-Step Dance, Translation: RNA to Protein
- Tweaking Gene Expression
- To the Market
- Infographic: The Deadly Price of a Pandemic
- REVIEWING THE SC IENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 11: Evidence for Evolution UNIT 3: EVOLUTION
- Artificial to Natural Whale Hunting
- Fossil Secrets
- The Ultimate Family Tree
- Clues in the Code
- Birthplace of Whales
- Growing Together
- Infographic: Watching Evolution Happen
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 12: Mechanisms of Evolution xii fiffContents
- Birth of a Superbug Battling Resistance
- Rising Resistance
- Enter Enterococcus
- Primed for Pickup
- Sex and Selection
- After Vancomycin
- How Can Yo u Make a Difference? Help Prevent Antibiotic Resistance!
- Infographic: Race against Resistance
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 13: Adaptation and Species
- Leaping Lizards Fast Lizards, Slow Corals
- What Makes a Species?
- Why Sex?
- Caribbean Corals
- Different Depths, Different Habitats
- So Many Chromosomes
- Infographic: On the Diversity of Species
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 14: The History of Life UNIT 4: BIODIVERSITY
- Dinosaurs and Domains The First Bird
- Feathered Friends
- The History of Life on Earth
- Tussling with Trees
- Infographic: The Sixth Extinction
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE Contents ■ xiii
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 15: Bacteria and Archaea
- Merry Microbes Navel Gazing
- Talk, but No Sex
- All Hands on Deck
- Healthy Balance
- Infographic: The Bugs in Your Belly Button
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 16: Plants, Fungi, and Protists
- Fungi Play Well with Others The Dirt on Black-Market Plants
- Peculiar Protists
- Two Cells Are Better Than One
- Green-Fingered Thieves
- Searching for Flowers
- Truffle Trouble
- Infographic: Food Banks
- Fighting for the Future
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 17: Animals and Human Evolution
- Animal Kingdom Neanderthal Sex
- Get a Backbone!
- Mammals R Us
- Rise of the Apes
- Infographic: Hereditary Heirlooms
- Hominins United
- All in the Family
- Uniquely Human?
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE xiv fiffContents
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 18: General Principles of Ecology UNIT 5: ECOLOGY
- Hot and Dry Amazon on Fire
- A Warmer World
- Fire and Water
- Infographic: Forest Devastation
- How Big Is Your Ecological Footprint?
- The Carbon Games
- Waiting and Watching
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 19: Growth of Populations
- Population Control Zika-Busting Mosquitoes
- Rapid Spread
- Mosquito-Borne Diseases
- Reaching Capacity
- Seeking Change
- Friendly Fight
- Just the Beginning?
- Infographic: World’s Deadliest Animals
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 20: Communities of Organisms Contents ■ xv
- A Key Loss Of Wolves and Trees
- A Second Ripple Effect
- Infographic: Cause and Effect
- Back in the Park
- Safety in Numbers and Colors
- A Community Restored
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 21: Ecosystems
- Going Green Here and Gone
- Bottom of the Pyramid
- A Multitude of Measurements
- The Precious 1 Percent
- Phyto-Fight
- Infographic: Productive Plants
- Heating Up
- REVIEWING THE SCIENCE
- THE QUESTIONS
- Answers A
- Glossary G
- Credits C
- Index I
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