Part 1
The Facts of Life
1 SCIENTIFIC THINKING Your best pathway to understanding the world
2 CHEMISTRY Raw materials and fuel for our bodies
3 CELLS The smallest part of you
4 ENERGY From the sun to you in just two steps
Part 2
Genetics, Evolution, and Behavior
5 DNA, GENE EXPRESSION, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY What is the code and how is it harnessed?
6 CHROMOSOMES AND CELL DIVISION Continuity and variety
7 GENES AND INHERITANCE Family resemblance: how traits are inherited
8 EVOLUTION AND NATURAL SELECTION Darwin’s dangerous idea
9 EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOR Communication, cooperation, and conflict in
the animal world
Part 3
Evolution and the Diversity of Life
10 THE ORIGIN AND DIVERSIFICATION OF LIFE ON EARTH Understanding biodiversity
11 ANIMAL DIVERSIFICATION Visibility in motion.
12 PLANT AND FUNGI DIVERSIFICATION Where did all the plants and fungi come from?
13 EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY AMONG THE MICROBES Bacteria, archaea, protists, and viruses: the unseen world
Part 4
Ecology and the Environment
14 POPULATION ECOLOGY Planet at capacity: patterns of population growth
15 ECOSYSTEMS AND COMMUNITIES Organisms and their environments
16 CONSERVATION AND BIODIVERSITY Human influences on the environment
Additional chapters in the physiology version
Part 5
Plant Life
17 PLANT STRUCTURE AND NUTRIENT TRANSPORT How plants function and why we need them
18 GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS Problem solving with flowers and wood
19 PLANTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS Regulating and defending while rooted in the ground
Part 6
Health and Physiology
20 INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY Principles of animal organization and function
21 CIRCULATION AND RESPIRATION Transporting fuel, raw materials, and gases into, out of, and around the body
22 NUTRITION AND DIGESTION At rest and at play: optimizing human physiological functioning
23 NEURONS AND NEUROTRANSMITTERS Actions, reactions, feelings and addictions: meet your brain
24 HORMONES Emotions, growth, reproduction and more: hormones as master regulators
25 REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT From two parents to one embryo to one baby
26 IMMUNITY AND HEALTH How the animal body defends and maintains itself