Biology 12/e

1 The Science of Biology 

2 The Nature of Molecules and the Properties of Water 

3 The Chemical Building Blocks of Life Part II Biology of the Cell 

4 Cell Structure 

5 Membranes 

6 Energy and Metabolism 

7 How Cells Harvest Energy 

8 Photosynthesis 

9 Cell Communication 

10 How Cells Divide Part III Genetic and Molecular Biology 

11 Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis 

12 Patterns of Inheritance 

13 Chromosomes, Mapping and the Meiosis—Inheritance Connection 

14 DNA: The Genetic Material 

15 Genes and How They Work 

16 Control of Gene Expression 

17 Biotechnology 

18 Genomics 

19 Cellular Mechanisms of Development Part IV Evolution 

20 Genes Within Populations 

21 The Evidence for Evolution 

22 The Origin of Species 

23 Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Comparative Biology 

24 Genome Evolution Part V Diversity of Life on Earth 

25 Origin and Diversity of Life 

26 Viruses 

27 Prokaryotes 

28 Protists 

29 Seedless Plants 

30 Seed Plants 

31 Fungi 

32 Animal Diversity & the Evolution of Body Plans 

33 Protostomes 

34 Deuterostomes Part VI Plant Form and Function 

35 Plant Form 

36 Transport in Plants 

37 Plant Nutrition and Soils