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Evolutionary History
This book describes how evolutionary history is studied using several well-known examples and also using evolutionary trees. Evolutionary trees are analyzed and used to explain …
Neurons and Muscles
Whenever a dancer or an athlete performs amazing feats, it is the consequence of two very interesting cell types: neurons and muscles. When the two of these cell types work …
Cellular Respiration
What happens to a meal after it is eaten? Food consists primarily of lipids, proteins and carbohydrates (sugars). How do cells in the body process food once it is eaten and turned …
Animal Physiology
This book examines four examples of animal physiology that illustrate emergent properties in whole organisms. The first example shows how mammals coordinate the activity of all …
Ecological Dynamics
Population growth, dynamics, and blooms of bacterial, unicellular eukaryotes, and toxic algae are described in this book. Microbes are used to illustrate both exponential and …
Cells in Tissues
Two systems illustrate how individual cells of an organ system function, communicate, and coordinate activities. The digestive system breaks down and absorbs nutrients, and some …
Molecular Switches
This book introduces the concept of emergent properties, which are unexpected traits found only when two or more biological components interact. Experimental evidence of several …
The Source of Genetic Information
Everyone who has taken any biology class knows that DNA is the heritable material. However, very few people know the evidence that led to this conclusion. Science is a discipline …
Evolution of Interactions in Communities
Pairwise and diffuse coevolution are defined, with examples that include mutualisms and predator-prey interactions. In any example of coevolution, the costs and benefits to both …
Variation and Population Genetics
This book describes and analyzes genetic and environmental factors that cause variation in individuals and populations. Data will be used to evaluate the processes by which …
Emergent Properties of Individual Organisms
This book begins by describing what an individual organism is, comparing preconceptions of the individual to non-standard ways of thinking about individuals. Variation in what …
Using DNA Information to Make Proteins
Many people were taught that DNA is the ""blueprint of the cell,"" but what does that really mean? If taken literally, it would reveal a static image of what the cell looks like, …