Life: The Science of Biology, Volume 1: The Cell and Heredity (Paperback, 10)

Part I: THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AND ITS CHEMICAL BASIS .- Studying Life.- Small Molecules and the Chemistry of Life.- Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Lipids .- Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life.- Part II: CELLS .- Cells: The Working Units of Life.- Cell Membranes.- Cell Communication and Multicellularity .- Part III: CELLS AND ENERGY .- Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism.- Pathways that Harvest Chemical Energy.- Photosynthesis: Energy from Sunlight.- Part IV: GENES AND HEREDITY .- The Cell Cycle and Cell Division.- Inheritance, Genes, and Chromosomes .- DNA and Its Role in Heredity.- From DNA to Protein: Gene Expression.- Gene Mutation and Molecular Medicine .- Regulation of Gene Expression .- Part V: GENOMES .- Genomes.- Recombinent DNA and Biotechnology.- Differential Gene Expression in Development.- Development and Evolutionary Change.