About the Book

Key Benefit:

David Krogh's Biology: A Guide to the Natural World leads readers on a memorable journey through the world of biology, using relevant examples, clearly-developed illustrations, and helpful insights that resonate with today's students.

The Technology Update features margin callouts in the text, directing readers and instructors to a significantly more robust MasteringBiology program, introducing learning outcomes, book-specific animations, end-of-chapter material, new vocabulary activities, ABC News videos, and more.

Widely recognized as a book that readers enjoy reading, David Krogh uses discussions about social concerns and health applications, along with streamlined EOC material, to help engage readers with the chapter. To address different learning styles, clear illustrations and exercises are now reinforced with even more engaging and effective assignable problems in MasteringBiology^(R).

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,

Transport and Exchange 2: Digestion, Nutrition, and Elimination, An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development, How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction, An Interactive Living World 1: Populations in Ecology, An Interactive Living World 2: Communities in Ecology, An Interactive Living World 3: Ecosystems and Biomes

Market: Intended for those interested in gaining a basic knoweldge of biology.