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Teach students to view their world using scientific reasoning with Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology. The authors’ approach equips your students to become better informed citizens, relate concepts from class to their everyday lives, and understand and apply real data, making biology relevant and meaningful to their world and futures.
The new edition incorporates instructor feedback on what key skills to highlight in new Process of Science essays and uses striking infographic figures in conveying real data to help students see and better understand how science actually works. New author-narrated Figure Walkthrough Videos guide students through key biology concepts and processes.

Inhalt

• 1 Learning About Life
• 2 Essential Chemistry for Biology
• 3 The Molecules of Life
• 4 A Tour of the Cell
• 5 The Working Cell  
• 6 Cellular Respiration: Obtaining Energy from Food
• 7 Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food  
• 8 Cellular Reproduction: Cells from Cells
• 9 Patterns of Inheritance  
• 10 The Structure and Function of DNA
• 11 How Genes Are Controlled
• 12 DNA Technology
• 13 How Populations Evolve
• 14 How Biological Diversity Evolves  
• 15 The Evolution of Microbial Life  
• 16 The Evolution of Plants and Fungi  
• 17 The Evolution of Animals   18 An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere
• 19 Population Ecology
• 20 Communities and Ecosystems
• 21 Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function
• 22 Nutrition and Digestion
• 23 Circulation and Respiration
• 24 The Body’s Defenses
• 25 Hormones
• 26 Reproduction and Development
• 27 Nervous, Sensory, and Locomotor Systems
• 28 The Life of a Flowering Plant
• 29 The Working Plant