(eBook) (PDF) Campbell Biology in Focus, 3rd edition

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Campbell Biology in Focus is designed to help you master the fundamental content and scientific skills you need as a college biology major. Streamlined content guides you in prioritizing essential biology concepts and scientific skills needed to develop conceptual understanding. Built unit-by-unit, the text achieves a balance between breadth and depth of concepts that moves you away from memorization and helps you build a solid foundation you’ll apply in future biology courses.The 3rd Edition guides you in exploring the key questions, approaches and ideas of modern biology. The new edition builds on the Campbell hallmark standards of accuracy, clarity and innovative pedagogy to help you make connections, interpret real data and synthesize knowledge. New key scientific findings and new interactive resources promote active learning and help you retain tough course concepts.

Published by Pearson (June 13th 2019) – Copyright © 2020
ISBN-13: 9780135964422
Subject: Biology
Category: Biology for majors

1. Introduction: Evolution and the Foundations of Biology

UNIT 1: Chemistry and Cells 

2. The Chemical Context of Life
3. Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life 
4. A Tour of the Cell
5. Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
6. An Introduction to Metabolism
7. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation 
8. Photosynthesis 
9. The Cell Cycle 

UNIT 2: Genetics

10. Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
11. Mendel and the Gene Idea
12. The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
13. The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
14. Gene Expression: From Gene to Protein
15. Regulation of Gene Expression
16. Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer
17. Viruses
18. Genomes and Their Evolution

UNIT 3: Evolution

19. Descent with Modification
20. Phylogeny
21. The Evolution of Populations
22. The Origin of Species
23. Broad Patterns of Evolution

UNIT 4: The Evolutionary History of Life

24. Early Life and the Diversification of Prokaryotes
25. The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes
26. The Colonization of Land
27. The Rise of Animal Diversity

UNIT 5: Plant Form and Function

28. Vascular Plant Structure and Growth
29. Resource Acquisition, Nutrition, and Transport in Vascular Plants
30. Reproduction and Domestication of Flowering Plants
31. Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals

UNIT 6: Animal Form and Function

32. The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation
33. Animal Nutrition
34. Circulation and Gas Exchange
35. The Immune System
36. Reproduction and Development
37. Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
38. Nervous and Sensory Systems
39. Motor Mechanisms and Behavior

UNIT 7: Ecology

40. Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms
41. Ecological Communities
42. Ecosystems and Energy
43. Conservation Biology and Global Change