This volume of the main Life text is perfect for shorter courses which focus on the cell and heredity. Life is simply the textbook for showing students howbiology works, offering an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals through the landmark experiments that revealed them. This 9th edition also introduces several innovations. INDICE: PART ONE: THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AND ITS CHEMICAL BASIS - Studying Life - Small Molecules and the Chemistry of Life - Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Lipids - Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life - PART TWO: CELLS - Cells: The Working Units of Life - Cell Membranes - Cell Signaling and Communication - PART THREE: CELLS AND ENERGY - Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism - Pathways that Harvest Chemical Energy - Photosynthesis: Energy from Sunlight - PART FOUR: GENES AND HEREDITY - The Cell Cycle and Cell Division - Inheritance, Genes, and Chromosomes - DNA and Its Role in Heredity - From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression - Gene Mutation and Molecular Medicine - Regulation of Gene Expression - PART FIVE: GENOMES - Genomes - Biotechnology - Differential Gene Expression in Development - Development and Evolutionary Change
- ISBN: 978-1-4292-4645-3
- Editorial: W.H. Freeman
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés