This book begins by describing what an individual organism is, comparing preconceptions of the in...

This book describes and analyzes genetic and environmental factors that cause variation in indivi...

Three of the four major mechanisms of evolution, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow ...

It is common for most people to mistakenly think that humans are the only species that can coordi...

Perhaps the most important chemical reactions on the planet take place inside a plant's chloropla...

Food webs, energy flow, indirect effects, and nutrient cycling are described as properties that e...

What happens to a meal after it is eaten? Food consists primarily of lipids, proteins and carbohy...

Many people were taught that DNA is the ''blueprint of the cell,'' but what does that really mean...

Several genetic and pathogenic diseases are described to illustrate how diseases can and do disru...

Once the first cell arose on Earth, how did genetic diversity arise if DNA replication and cell d...

Individual organisms contribute to nutrient cycling in ecological systems, which is shown to be a...

All organisms are composed of cells, but what is the definition of a cell? Can size, shape or fun...

Everyone who has taken any biology class knows that DNA is the heritable material. However, very ...

This book identifies the commonalities between communication within a species and communication b...

Two systems illustrate how individual cells of an organ system function, communicate, and coordin...

This book examines four examples of animal physiology that illustrate emergent properties in whol...

Properties of populations include age and spatial distribution, both of which emerge from actions...

One of the overarching themes in nature is that form meets function, meaning that the shape of an...

Why do some children look more like one parent than another? How can two parents with dark hair h...

This book introduces the concept of emergent properties, which are unexpected traits found only w...

Whenever a dancer or an athlete performs amazing feats, it is the consequence of two very interes...

This book will synthesize the concepts of selection against individuals in response to environmen...

Pairwise and diffuse coevolution are defined, with examples that include mutualisms and predator-...

This book examines three ways plants respond to their changing environment. The first example can...

This book describes how evolutionary history is studied using several well-known examples and als...

It is easy to understand how cells are produced from preexisting cells. And it is possible to ima...

Organisms maintain homeostasis in a variety of ways. In the first part of this book, mammals are ...

Population growth, dynamics, and blooms of bacterial, unicellular eukaryotes, and toxic algae are...

Many people have a vague sense that the hypothesized origin of life, in the form of bacteria, sou...

Animal behavior includes the exchange of non-heritable information between individuals of the sam...