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Part I: THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AND ITS CHEMICAL BASIS Studying Life Small Molecules and the Chemistry of Life Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Lipids Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life Part II: CELLS Cells: The Working Units of Life Cell Membranes Cell Communication and Multicellularity Part III: CELLS AND ENERGY Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism Pathways that Harvest Chemical Energy Photosynthesis: Energy from Sunlight Part IV: GENES AND HEREDITY The Cell Cycle and Cell Division Inheritance, Genes, and Chromosomes DNA and Its Role in Heredity From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression Gene Mutation and Molecular Medicine Regulation of Gene Expression Part V: GENOMES Genomes Recombinent DNA and Biotechnology Differential Gene Expression in Development Development and Evolutionary Change