Asking About Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Learn through experimentation with ASKING ABOUT LIFE, Third Edition. This biology textbook includes thought-provoking chapter-opening stories and helps you remember main ideas with key questions at the beginning of each chapter, numbered main headings, and chapter summaries. Use the BiologyNow CD-ROM, packaged free with each copy of the text, to answer questions created around the opening stories and to take diagnostic pre-tests to pinpoint exactly what you need to know for success on exams. You'll also receive access to InfoTrac? College Edition and Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING.

Chemistry And Cell Biology
How Do Biologists Study Life?
The Chemical Foundations of Life
Biological Molecules Great and Small
Why Are All Organisms Made of Cells?
Directions and Rates of Biochemical Processes
How Do Organisms Supply Themselves with Energy?
Photosynthesis: How Do Organisms Get Energy from the Sun?
Genetics - The Continuity Of Life
Cell Reproduction
From Meiosis to Mendel
The Structure, Replication, and Repair of DNA
How Are Genes Expressed?
Viruses, Jumping Genes, and Other Unusual Genes
Genetic Engineering and Recombinant DNA
Human Genetics
Evolution
What Is the Evidence for Evolution?
Microevolution: How Do Populations Evolve?
Macroevolution: How Do Species Evolve?
How Did the First Organisms Evolve?
Diversity
Classification: What's in a Name?
Prokaryotes: How Does the Other Half live?
Classifying the Protists and Multicellular Fungi
How Did Plants Adapt to Dry Land?
Protostome Animals: Most Animals Form Mouth First
Deuterostome Animals: Echinoderms and Chordates
Ecology
Ecosystem Dynamics
Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
Communities: How Do Species Interact?
Populations: Extinctions and Explosions
The Ecology of Animal Behavior
Structural And Physiological Adaptations Of Flowering Plants
Structural and Chemical Adaptations of Plants
How Do Plants Move Water and Sugars?
Growth and Development of Flowering Plants
How Do Plants Respond to Their Environment?
Structural And Physiological Adaptations Of Animals
Form and Function in Animals
How Do Animals Move?
How Do Animals Obtain Nourishment from Food?
How Do Animals Coordinate the Actions of Cells and Organs?
How Do Animals Move Blood Through Their Bodies?
How Do Animals Breathe?
How Do Animals Manage Water, Sales, and Wastes?
Defense: Inflammation and Immunity
The Nervous System and the Sense Organs
The Cells of the Nervous System
Sexual Reproduction
How Do Organisms Become Complete?
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