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1. Introduction: Biology Today

I. CELLS

2. Essential Chemistry for Biology

3. The Molecules of Life

4. A Tour of the Cell

5. The Working Cell

6. Cellular Respiration: Obtaining Energy from Food

7. Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food

II. GENETICS

8. Cellular Reproduction: Cells from Cells

9. Patterns of Inheritance

10. The Structure and Function of DNA

11. How Genes Are Controlled

12. DNA Technology

III. EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY

13. How Populations Evolve

14. How Biological Diversity Evolves

15. The Evolution of Microbial Life

16. Plants, Fungi, and the Move onto Land

17. The Evolution of Animals

IV. ECOLOGY

18. An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere

19. Population Ecology

20. Communities and Ecosystems

V. ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

21. Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function

22. Nutrition and Digestion

23. Circulation and Respiration

24. The Body’s Defenses

25. Hormones

26. Reproduction and Development

27. Nervous, Sensory, and Motor Systems

VI. PLANT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

28. The Life of a Flowering Plant

29. The Working Plant