(eBook) (PDF) Campbell Biology: Concepts & Connections, 10th edition

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Campbell Biology: Concepts and Connections creates an innovative learning experience that will help you to both learn about and interact with biology. The text continues to introduce pedagogical developments that create an innovative learning experience. The hallmark modular organization built around central concepts helps you stay focused and connect biology with the world outside the classroom.Building on the text’s outstanding art and hallmark features, the 10th Edition delivers new digital resources and embedded interactives that guide will guide you to success. This edition draws from learning science as well as the authors’ classroom experience to provide tools that help with learning. New Chapter Openers promote information retention. Selected features break content into bite-size subsections, and additional author-created videos will guide you to focus on what is important.

Published by Pearson (July 2nd 2020) – Copyright © 2021
ISBN-13: 9780136538783
Subject: Biology
Category: Biology for non-majors

UNIT I: THE LIFE OF THE CELL 

1. Biology: The Scientific Study of Life 
2. The Chemical Basis of Life 
3. The Molecules of Cells 
4. A Tour of the Cell 
5. The Working Cell 
6. How Cells Harvest Chemical Energy 
7. Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food

UNIT II: CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS 

8. The Cellular Basis of Reproduction and Inheritance 
9. Patterns of Inheritance 
10. Molecular Biology of the Gene 
11. How Genes Are Controlled 
12. DNA Technology and Genomics

UNIT III: CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION

13. How Populations Evolve 
14. The Origin of Species 
15. Tracing Evolutionary History

UNIT IV: THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

16. Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists 
17. The Evolution of Plant and Fungal Diversity 
18. The Evolution of Invertebrate Diversity 
19. The Evolution of Vertebrate Diversity

UNIT V: ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION

20. Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function 
21. Nutrition and Digestion 
22. Gas Exchange 
23. Circulation 
24. The Immune System 
25. Control of Body Temperature and Water Balance 
26. Hormones and the Endocrine System 
27. Reproduction and Embryonic Development 
28. Nervous Systems 
29. The Senses 
30. How Animals Move

UNIT VI: PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION 

31. Plant Structure, Growth, and Reproduction 
32. Plant Nutrition and Transport
33. Control Systems in Plants

UNIT VII. ECOLOGY

34. The Biosphere:  An Introduction to Earth’s Diverse Environments 
35. Behavioral Adaptations to the Environment 
36. Population Ecology
37. Communities and Ecosystems 
38. Conservation Biology

APPENDICES

1. Metric Conversion Table 
2. The Periodic Table 
3. The Amino Acids of Proteins
4. Chapter Review Answers 
5. Credits