Sinauer Associates I Principles of Life 2e | Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Chemistry and Energy of Life
3. Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes
4. Cells: The Working Units of Life
5. Cell Membranes and Signaling
6. Pathways that Harvest and Store Chemical Energy

7. The Cell Cycle and Cell Division
8. Inheritance, Genes, and Chromosomes
9. DNA and Its Role in Heredity
10. From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression
11. Regulation of Gene Expression
12. Genomes
13. Biotechnology
14. Genes, Development, and Evolution

15.  Processes of Evolution
16.  Reconstructing and Using Phylogenies
17.  Speciation
18.  The History of Life on Earth

19. Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses
20. The Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes
21. The Evolution of Plants
22. The Evolution and Diversity of Fungi
23. Animal Origins and Diversity

24. The Plant Body
25. Plant Nutrition and Transport
26. Plant Growth and Development
27. Reproduction of Flowering Plants
28. Plants in the Environment

29. Fundamentals of Animal Function
30. Nutrition and Digestion
31. Breathing
32. Circulation
33. Muscle and Movement
34. Neurons, Sense Organs, and Nervous Systems
35. Nervous and Endocrine Control
36. Water and Salts: Excretion
37. Animal Reproduction
38. Animal Development
39. Immunology: Animal Defense Systems
40. Animal Behavior 

41. The Distribution of Earth’s Ecological Systems
42. Populations
43. Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Interactions within and among Species
44. Ecological Communities
45. The Global Ecosystem