Key Topics:

Science as a Way of Learning: A Guide to the Natural World, Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry, Water, and pH, Life's Components: Biological Molecules, Life's Home: The Cell, Life's Border: The Plasma Membrane, Life's Mainspring: An Introduction to Energy, Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy from Food, The Green World's Gift: Photosynthesis, The Links in Life's Chain: Genetics and Cell Division, Preparing for Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis, The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries, Units of Heredity: Chromosomes and Inheritance, Passing On Life's Information: DNA Structure and Replication, How Proteins Are Made: Genetic Transcription, Translation, and Regulation, The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Biotechnology, An Introduction to Evolution: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Thought, and the Evidence for Evolution, The Means of Evolution: Microevolution, The Outcomes of Evolution: Macroevolution, A Slow Unfolding: The History of Life on Earth, Arriving Late, Traveling Far: The Evolution of Human Beings, Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, and Protists: The Diversity of Life 1, Fungi: The Diversity of Life 2, Animals: The Diversity of Life 3, Plants: The Diversity of Life 4, The Angiosperms: Form and Function in Flowering Plants, Body Support and Movement: The Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems, Communication and Control 1: The Nervous System, Communication and Control 2: The Endocrine System, Defending the Body: The Immune System, Transport and Exchange 1: Blood and Breath,