Loose-leaf Version for Biology How Life Works

Biology: How Life Works was written in response to recent and exciting changes in biology, education, and technology with the goal of helping students to think like biologists. The connected resources of text, visual program, and assessments were developed together to provide students with the best resources to gain a modern understanding of biology.

Content is selected carefully, is integrated to illustrate the connections between concepts, and follows six themes that are crucial to biology: the scientific method, chemical and physical principles, cells, evolution, ecological systems, and human impact.

The third edition continues this approach, and expands upon it by making both the text and media more flexible for instructors and easier to implement. New scientific skills-focused content gives students the tools they need to continue through a life sciences curriculum. Major content revisions in the coverage of DNA Structure and Function, Animal Form and Function, and a complete reorganization of our Ecology coverage streamline the content and make for a more flexible teaching experience.

The third edition also delivers great improvements to the media and assessment programs. Improved diversity of assessments (more diversity of Bloom’s level, new item types, and new tutorials) and improved data analytics to allow for more insight into students learning.  The Visual Syntheses have been reimagined, creating simpler and more powerful tools to help students see connections between topics.

The third edition of How Life Works is now an even more connected set of resources to provide students with the best set of tools to connect how life works and to succeed in introductory biology and beyond.

1. Life: Chemical, Cellular and Evolutionary Foundations
The First Cell: Information, Homeostasis, and Energy
2. The Molecules of Life
3. Nucleic Acids: The Encoding of Biological Information
4. Translation and Protein Structure
5. Organizing Principles: Lipids, Membranes, and Cell Compartments
7. Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Energy from Carbohydrates
8. Photosynthesis: Using Sunlight to Build Carbohydrates
6. Making Life Work: Capturing and Using Energy
Cancer: Cell Signaling, Form, and Division
9. Cell Signaling
10. Cell Form and Function: Cytoskeleton, Cellular Junctions, and Extracellular Matrix
11. Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis
The Human Microbiome: Diversity Within
24. The Diversity of Prokaryotes
25. Eukaryotic Cells: Origins and Diversity
26. Being Multicellular
Agriculture: Feeding a Growing Population
27. Plant Structure and Physiology: Moving Photosynthesis onto Land
28. Plant Reproduction: Finding Mates and Dispersing Offspring
30. Plant Defense: Keeping the World Green
29. Plant Growth and Development: Building the Plant Body
31. Plant Diversity
32. Fungi: Structure, Function and Diversity
You, from A to T: Your Personal Genome
12. DNA Replication and Manipulation
13. Genomes
14. Mutation and Genetic Variation
15. Mendelian Inheritance
16. Sex Chromosomes, Linkage and Organelles
17. The Genetic and Environmental Basis of Complex Traits
18. Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation

19. Genes and Development
34. Animal Nervous Systems
35. Animal Movement: Muscles and Skeleton
Malaria: Co-evolution of Humans and a Parasite
20.Evolution: Change over Time
36. Endocrine System
21. Species and Speciation
22. Evolutionary Patterns: Phylogeny and Fossils
23. Human Origins and Evolution
Biology Inspired Engineering: Using Nature to Solve Problems
33. Animal Form, Function, and Evolutionary History
37. Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems
38. Metabolism, Nutrition, and Digestion
39. Animal Renal Systems: Water and Waste
40. Animal Reproduction and Development
46. Ecosystem Ecology
41. Immune System
43. Behavior and Behavioral Ecology
Biodiversity and Biodiversity Loss
42. Animal Diversity
44. Population Ecology
45. Species Interactions and Communities
47. Climate and Biomes
48. The Anthropocene