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Biology for an Informed World

Instead of starting at the molecular level and building out during the course of a semester, this text does the opposite. By starting with concepts more familiar to non-scientists, it creates a scaffold for the course in order to have students continuously contextualize new information.

Biology
Author
Trevor Rivers
Publisher
University of Kansas
Source
LibreTexts
Language
EN
Category
Basic Sciences
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Contents· 105 sections
  1. 01: Introduction to Biology
  2. 1.01: What is different about this approach to Introductory Biology
  3. 1.02: Themes and Concepts of Biology
  4. 1.03: The Process of Science
  5. 1.04: Working with Data
  6. 1.4.01: What Are Data
  7. 1.4.02: Discrete Versus Continuous Measurements
  8. 1.4.03: What Makes a Good Measurement
  9. 1.05: Descriptive Statistics and Graphing
  10. 02: Life and Homeostasis
  11. 2.01: Where did life come from
  12. 2.02: Eukaryotic Origins
  13. 2.03: Homeostasis
  14. 03: Ecosystems and the Biosphere
  15. 3.01: Energy Flow through Ecosystems
  16. 3.02: Biogeochemical Cycles
  17. 3.03: Terrestrial Biomes
  18. 3.04: Aquatic and Marine Biomes
  19. 04: Community and Population Ecology
  20. 4.01: Community Ecology
  21. 4.02: Population Demographics and Dynamics
  22. 4.03: Population Growth and Regulation
  23. 4.04: Speciation
  24. 05: Organization of Life and its Diversity
  25. 5.01: Organizing Life on Earth
  26. 5.02: Determining Evolutionary Relationships
  27. 5.03: Diversity of Microbes Fungi and Protists
  28. 5.3.01: Prokaryotes
  29. 5.3.02: Protists
  30. 5.3.03: Fungi
  31. 5.04: Diversity of Plants
  32. 5.4.01: The Plant Kingdom
  33. 5.4.02: Seedless Plants
  34. 5.4.03: Seed Plants - Gymnosperms
  35. 5.4.04: Seed Plants - Angiosperms
  36. 5.05: Diversity of Animals
  37. 5.5.01: Features of the Animal Kingdom
  38. 5.5.02: Sponges and Cnidarians
  39. 5.5.03: Flatworms Nematodes and Arthropods
  40. 5.5.04: Mollusks and Annelids
  41. 5.5.05: Echinoderms and Chordates
  42. 5.5.06: Vertebrates
  43. 06: Evolution and Its Processes
  44. 6.01: Discovering How Populations Change
  45. 6.02: Mechanisms of Evolution
  46. 6.03: Evidence of Evolution
  47. 6.04: Common Misconceptions about Evolution
  48. 07: Evolution and Behavior
  49. 7.01: Innate Animal Behavior
  50. 7.1A: Introduction to Animal Behavior
  51. 7.1B: Movement and Migration
  52. 7.1C: Animal Communication and Living in Groups
  53. 7.1D: Altruism and Populations
  54. 7.1E: Mating Systems and Sexual Selection
  55. 7.02: Learned Animal Behavior
  56. 7.2A: Simple Learned Behaviors
  57. 7.2B: Conditioned Behavior
  58. 7.2C: Cognitive Learning and Sociobiology
  59. 08: Patterns of Inheritance
  60. 8.01: Mendels Experiments
  61. 8.02: Laws of Inheritance
  62. 8.03: Extensions of the Laws of Inheritance
  63. 09: Inheritance and Variation
  64. 9.01: Sexual Reproduction
  65. 9.02: Meiosis
  66. 9.03: Errors in Meiosis
  67. 10: The Molecules of Life
  68. 10.01: The Building Blocks of Molecules
  69. 10.02: Water
  70. 10.03: Hydrogen Bonding in Action
  71. 10.04: Biological Molecules
  72. 11: From DNA to Protein
  73. 11.01: The Structure of DNA
  74. 11.02: DNA Replication
  75. 11.03: Transcription
  76. 11.04: Translation
  77. 12: The Creation and Consumption of Energy
  78. 12.01: Energy and Metabolism
  79. 12.02: Glycolysis
  80. 12.03: Citric Acid Cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation
  81. 12.04: Fermentation
  82. 12.05: Connections to Other Metabolic Pathways
  83. 12.06: Overview of Photosynthesis
  84. 12.07: The Light-Dependent Reactions of Photosynthesis
  85. 12.08: The Energy Cycle
  86. 13: Cell division and when it goes wrong
  87. 13.01: The Genome
  88. 13.02: Prokaryotic Cell Division
  89. 13.03: The Cell Cycle
  90. 13.04: Cancer and the Cell Cycle
  91. 14: The Immune System and Disease
  92. 14.01: Innate Immunity
  93. 14.02: Adaptive Immunity
  94. 14.03: Disruptions in the Immune System
  95. 14.04: Viruses and vaccines
  96. 14.05: Bacteria and human disease
  97. 15: Biotechnology
  98. 15.01: Cloning and Genetic Engineering
  99. 15.02: Biotechnology in Medicine and Agriculture
  100. 15.03: Genomics and Proteomics
  101. 16: The Anthropocene
  102. 16.01: The Human Population
  103. 16.02: Importance of Biodiversity
  104. 16.03: Threats to Biodiversity
  105. 16.04: Preserving Biodiversity