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Life: Its Origins and Evolution - PART ONE: THE CELL - Life andChemistry: Small Molecules - Life and Chemistry: Large Molecules - Cells: TheBasic Units of Life - Cellular Membranes - Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism -Cellular Pathways that Harvest Chemical Energy - Photosynthesis: Energy fromthe Sun - PART TWO: INFORMATION AND HEREDITY - Chromosomes, the Cell Cycle,and Cell Division - Transmission Genetics: Mendel and Beyond - DNA and itsRole in Heredity - From DNA to Protein: Genotype to Phenotype - The Geneticsof Viruses and Prokaryotes - The Eukaryotic Genome and its Expression - CellSignaling and Gene Expression - Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology - MolecularBiology and Medicine - Natural Defenses against Disease - PART THREE:DEVELOPMENT - Differential Gene Expression in Development - AnimalDevelopment: From Genes to Organism - Development and Evolutionary Change -PART FOUR: EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES - The History of Life on Earth - TheMechanisms of Evolution - Species and their Formation - Constructing andUsing Phylogenies - Molecular and Genomic Evolution - PART FIVE: THEEVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY - Bacteria and Archaea: The Prokaryotic Domains -Protists and the Dawn of the Eukarya - Plants without Seeds: From Sea to Land- The Evolution of Seed Plants - Fungi: Recyclers, Killers, and PlantPartners - Ancestors and Lophotrochozoans - Ecdysozoans: The Molting Animals- Deuterostomate Animals - PART SIX: THE BIOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANTS - ThePlant Body - Transport in Plants - Plant Nutrition - Plant Growth Regulation- Reproduction in Flowering Plants - Plant Responses to EnvironmentalChallenges - PART SEVEN: THE BIOLOGY OF ANIMALS - Physiology, Homeostasis,and Temperature Regulation - Animal Hormones - Animal Reproduction - Neuronsand Nervous Systems - Sensory Systems - The Mammalian Nervous System:Structure and Higher Functions - Effectors - Gas Exchange in Animals -Circulatory Systems - Animal Nutrition - Salt and Water Balance and NitrogenExcretion - Animal Behavior - PART EIGHT: ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY -Behavioral Ecology - Population Ecology - Community Ecology - Biogeography -Conservation Biology - Earth Systems Science