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Chapters :
from PART ONE The Science and Building Blocks of Life
1. Studying Life

from PART TWO Cells and Energy
5. The Dynamic Cell Membrane

from PART THREE Heredity and the Genome
14. The Eukaryotic Genome and Its Expression

from PART FOUR Modern Molecular Biology: The Genome in Action
17. Genome Sequencing, Molecular Biology, and Medicine

from PART FIVE The Patterns and Processes of Evolution
25. Reconstructing and Using Phylogenes

from PART SIX The Evolution of Diversity
29. The Evolution of Seed Plants

from PART SEVEN Flowering Plants: Form and Function
36. Plant Nutrition

from PART EIGHT Animals: Form and Function
44. Neurons and Nervous Systems

from PART NINE Ecology
56. Ecosystems and Global Ecology

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