
Nguồn ngoài
Biofundamentals
Biofundamentals™ is an attempt to build a more conceptually coherent, rigorous and engaging introductory course in modern biology
- Tác giả
- Klymkowsky & Cooper
- Nhà xuất bản
- University of Colorado Boulder & Michigan State University
- Nguồn
- LibreTexts
- Ngôn ngữ
- EN
- Danh mục
- Khoa học cơ bản
Mục lục· 150 mục
- 01: Understanding science and thinking scientifically
- 1.0: Introduction
- 1.1: The Interconnectedness of Science
- 1.2: Models Hypotheses and Theories
- 1.3: Science is Social
- 1.4: Teaching and Learning Science
- 1.5: Understanding Scientific Ideas
- 02: Lifes diversity and origins
- 2.00: Introduction
- 2.01: What is life exactly
- 2.02: The cell theory and the continuity of life
- 2.03: The organization of organisms
- 2.04: Spontaneous generation and the origin of life
- 2.05: The Death of Vitalism
- 2.06: Thinking about lifes origins
- 2.07: Experimental studies on the origins of life
- 2.08: Mapping the history of life on earth
- 2.09: Fossil evidence for the history of life on earth
- 2.10: Life's impact on earth
- 03: Evolutionary mechanisms and the diversity of life
- 3.00: Introduction
- 3.01: Organizing organisms (hierarchically)
- 3.02: Natural and un-natural groups
- 3.03: Fossils and family relationships: introducing cladistics
- 3.04: Evolution theorys core concepts
- 3.05: So what do we mean by genetic factors
- 3.06: Limits on populations
- 3.07: The conceptual leap made by Darwin and Wallace
- 3.08: Mutations and the origins of genotype-based variation
- 3.09: The origins of polymorphisms
- 3.10: A short aside on the genotype-phenotype relationship
- 3.11: Variation selection and speciation
- 3.12: Types of simple selection
- 3.13: A short note on pedagogical weirdness
- 3.14: Population size founder effects and population bottlenecks
- 3.15: Population bottlenecks
- 3.16: Genetic drift
- 3.17: Gene linkage: one more complication
- 3.18: A brief reflection on the complexity of phenotypic traits
- 3.19: Speciation and extinction
- 3.20: Mechanisms of speciation
- 3.21: Isolating mechanisms
- 3.22: Sympatric speciation
- 3.23: Signs of evolution: homology and convergence
- 3.24: The loss of traits
- 3.25: Signs of evolutionary history
- 3.26: Homologies provide evidence for a common ancestor
- 3.27: Anti-evolution arguments
- 04: Social evolution and sexual selection
- 4.00: Introduction
- 4.01: Selecting social (cooperative) traits
- 4.02: Quorum Sensing
- 4.03: Active (altruistic) cell death
- 4.04: Inclusive fitness kin and group selection and social evolution
- 4.05: Group selection
- 4.06: Defense against social cheaters
- 4.07: Driving the evolutionary appearance of multicellular organisms
- 4.08: Origins and implications of sexual reproduction
- 4.09: Sexual dimorphism
- 4.10: Sexual Selection
- 4.11: Curbing runaway selection
- 05: Molecular interactions thermodynamics and reaction coupling
- 5.00: Introduction
- 5.01: A very little thermodynamics
- 5.02: Reactions: favorable unfavorable and their dynamics
- 5.03: Thinking entropically (and thermodynamically)
- 5.04: Reaction rates
- 5.05: Coupling reactions
- 5.06: Molecules London Dispersion Forces and van der Waals interactions
- 5.07: Covalent bonds
- 5.08: Bond Stability and Thermal Motion (a non-biological moment)
- 5.09: Bond polarity inter- and intramolecular interactions
- 5.10: The implications of bond polarity
- 5.11: Interacting with Water
- 06: Membrane boundaries and capturing energy
- 6.00: Introduction
- 6.01: Defining the Cells Boundary
- 6.02: The origin of biological membranes
- 6.03: Transport across membranes
- 6.04: Transport to and across the membrane
- 6.05: Channels and carriers
- 6.06: Generating gradients: using coupled reactions and pumps
- 6.07: Simple Phototrophs
- 6.08: Chemo-osmosis (an overview)
- 6.09: Oxygenic Photosynthesis
- 6.10: Chemotrophs
- 6.11: Using the energy stored in membrane gradients
- 6.12: Osmosis and living with and without a cell wall
- 6.13: An evolutionary scenario for the origin of eukaryotic cells
- 6.14: Making a complete eukaryote
- 07: The molecular nature of heredity
- 7.00: Introduction
- 7.01: Discovering how nucleic acids store genetic information
- 7.02: Locating hereditary material within the cell
- 7.03: Identifying DNA as the genetic material
- 7.04: Unraveling Nucleic Acid Structure
- 7.05: Discovering the structure of DNA
- 7.06: DNA sequences and information
- 7.07: Discovering RNA: structure and some functions
- 7.08: DNA Replication
- 7.09: Replication machines
- 7.10: Further replication complexities
- 7.11: Mutations deletions duplications and repair
- 7.12: Genes and alleles
- 7.13: Mutations and evolution
- 7.14: Triplet repeat diseases and genetic anticipation
- 08: Peptide bonds polypeptides and proteins
- 8.00: Introduction
- 8.01: Polypeptide and protein structure basics
- 8.02: Amino acid polymers
- 8.03: Making a polypeptide in a bacterial cell
- 8.04: The origin of the genetic code
- 8.05: Protein synthesis: transcription (DNA to RNA)
- 8.06: Protein synthesis: translation (RNA to polypeptide)
- 8.07: The translation (polypeptide synthesis) cycle
- 8.08: Bursting synthesis and alarm generation
- 8.09: Getting more complex: gene regulation in eukaryotes
- 8.10: Turning polypeptides into proteins
- 8.11: Regulating protein localization
- 8.12: Regulating protein activity
- 8.13: Allosteric regulation
- 8.14: Post-translational regulation
- 8.15: Diseases of folding and misfolding
- 8.16: Why do harmful alleles persist
- 09: Genomes genes and regulatory networks
- 9.0: Introduction
- 9.1: Genomes and their organization
- 9.2: A Technical Aside - Transposons
- 9.3: Genes along chromosomes
- 9.4: Naturally occurring horizontal gene transfer mechanisms
- 9.5: Transformation
- 9.6: Conjugation
- 9.7: Transduction
- 9.8: Sexual reproduction
- 9.9: Genome dynamics
- 9.10: Paralogous genes and gene families
- 9.11: Packing DNA into a cell
- 9.12: Locating information within DNA
- 9.13: Network interactions
- 9.14: E. coli as a model system
- 9.15: Final thoughts on (molecular) noise
- 9.16: Types of regulatory interactions
- 10: Social Systems
- 10.0: Introduction to Social Systems
- 10.1: Microbial Communities
- 10.2: Making Metazoans
- 10.3: Steps to metazoans multicellular animals and plants
- 10.4: Differentiation
- 10.5: Stem Cells
- 10.6: Cellular differentiation and genomic information