Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology,9780763716882

Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology

by Hoagland, Mahlon; Dodson, Bert; Hauck, Judy
Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780763716882
ISBN10: 076371688X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Summary

The Way Life Works is the perfect answer for any instructor seeking a more concise, meaningful, and flexible alternative To The standard introductory biology text. Organized around one central idea the amazing unity that underlies biological diversity this book presents biology's basic concepts and applications through a brilliant interweaving of incisive explanations, imaginative analogies, and stunning visual graphics. The process of science is strongly emphasized, and specific historical and current research is presented to elucidate the achievements of scientific exploration And The roles of curiosity and observation in initiating the scientific process. Easily adaptable to multiple teaching styles, this irresistably readable, innovative, and engaging new textbook is guaranteed to inspire both teachers and students alike.

Table of Contents

Setting the Stage
2(23)
A Singular Theme
3(1)
Thinking Small
4(6)
Using Microscopy to Explore the Cell and Beyond
10(4)
Tools of Science---Using X-Ray Diffraction
13(1)
Parts and Wholes
14(1)
The Way Science Works
15(2)
Tools of Science---The Ultracentrifuge
16(1)
The Way Life Works---The Basic Idea
17(6)
Patterns: An Overview of the Basic Concepts of Biology
23(64)
Life Builds from the Bottom Up
24(4)
Doing Science---Adhesive Force of Gecko Feet
27(1)
Life Assembles Itself Into Chains
28(4)
Life Needs an Inside and an Outside
32(4)
Life Uses a Few Themes to Generate Many Variations
36(4)
Life Organizes with Information
40(4)
Life Encourages Variety by Recombining Information
44(5)
Doing Science---Engineered Aspen Trees for Better Paper
47(2)
Life Creates with Mistakes
49(3)
Life Occurs in Water
52(5)
Life Runs on Sugar
57(1)
Life Works in Cycles
58(4)
Doing Science---Scientific Hypotheses and the Industrial Revolution
59(3)
Life Recycles Everything it Uses
62(5)
Life Maintains Itself by Turnover
67(3)
Life Tends to Optimize Rather Than Maximize
70(4)
Doing Science---Antler Growth and Extinction of Irish Elk
73(1)
Life Is Opportunistic
74(2)
Life Competes Within a Cooperative Framework
76(5)
Life Is Interconnected and Interdependent
81(6)
Energy---Light To Life
87(52)
Making Bonds
88(2)
Molecular Changes
90(2)
Life and The Laws of Energy
92(8)
ATP---The Energy Molecule
100(2)
Enzymes---Life's Clever Workers
102(1)
Enzymes and ATP---A Dynamic Duo
103(1)
Energy Flow Through Life---A Macro View
104(4)
Energy Flow Through Life---A Micro View
108(2)
The Chloroplast Ballroom
110(2)
Photosynthesis---Using Sunlight to Make Sugar
112(6)
Three Cheers for Carbon
118(4)
Doing Science---Van helmont's Experiment
119(3)
Respiration---Breaking Down Sugar to Make ATP
122(8)
Doing Science---Oxygen Discovered
127(3)
Glycolysis
130(2)
Doing Science---Pasteur's Wine
130(2)
Getting Energy to the Community
132(7)
Information---The Storehouse of Know-How
139(44)
Why Life Must Come From Life
140(4)
Doing Science---The Death of ``Spontaneous Generation''
141(3)
An Abbreviated History of Genetic Discoveries
144(2)
Life's Coding and Decoding Systems
146(2)
DNA---What Does It Actually Say?
148(4)
Doing Science---One Gene Makes One Protein---Beadle and Tatum and Bread Mold
149(3)
Nucleotides, Letters On A Backbone
152(2)
Doing Science---A Chemical Can Genetically Change Cells
153(1)
DNA---Base Pairs and Weak Bonds
154(2)
Doing Science---Moving in on the Structure of DNA
154(2)
DNA---The Double Helix
156(2)
Doing Science---Watson and Crick Discover the Structure of DNA
157(1)
DNA---Creating Its Own Future
158(1)
How Enzymes Copy DNA
159(3)
Genomes
162(8)
Tools of Science---Reading Genomes: PCR, Fingerprinting, Gene Sequencing
164(6)
DNA Repair
170(2)
Permanent Changes to DNA
172(2)
Doing Science---Genes and Rodent Behavior
173(1)
DNA to RNA: Copying Genes Into Messengers
174(2)
The Chicken/Egg Problem
176(2)
DNA Packaging
178(5)
Machinery---Building Smart Parts
183(26)
About Proteins
184(2)
Multiplying Small Effects
186(4)
Doing Science---Moving Cell Contents Around in Nitella
189(1)
Proteins Are Chains Made From Twenty Amino Acids
190(2)
How Orders Translate Into Assembled Boxes of Donuts
192(2)
How DNA Information Translates Into a Working Protein
194(2)
From DNA to Protein---a Multistep Process
196(2)
Translation
198(3)
DNA to RNA to Protein
201(1)
Key Discovery
202(2)
The Unity of Biology
204(5)
Feedback---Signaling, Sensing, Reacting
209(34)
Assembly Lines
210(2)
Circular Information
212(2)
Allostery---The Key To Feedback Control
214(2)
Why Allostery?
216(3)
Allostery and Molecular Communication
219(1)
Higher-Level Control
220(2)
When You Can't Get It, Make It Yourself
222(2)
Chemotaxis: How Chemical Signaling Creates Purposeful Movement
224(2)
Introducing the Adventures of a Slime Mold
226(4)
Doing Science---How Cell Aggregates are Formed
227(1)
Doing Science---Telling Amoebae When to Stop
228(2)
Feedback in Neural Circuits
230(4)
Doing Science---Toxoplasma Manipulates Rat Behavior
233(1)
Cascading
234(2)
Ecology Loops
236(2)
Death on the Wing
238(5)
Community---E Pluribus Unum
243(44)
Emergence
244(4)
The Emergence of Higher-Level Behavior
248(2)
From One-Celled to Many-Celled Creatures
250(2)
Embryo Development---From One Cell to Many
252(2)
Organizing a Body---Part I
254(4)
Cell Signaling
258(2)
Organizing a Body---Part II
260(2)
Organizing a Body---Part III
262(2)
Genes as Switches
264(2)
Organizing a Body---Part IV
266(4)
How Cells Differentiate
270(4)
Positional Signals
274(1)
Cell Death
275(3)
Tools of Science---Cloning a Sheep (or a Cow)
276(2)
Organizing a Body---Part V
278(4)
Roots
282(5)
Doing Science---Controlling the Shape of C. elegans
284(3)
Evolution---A Pattern for Creation
287(67)
Evolution of a New World View
288(2)
Further Evidence Supporting Natural Selection
290(2)
The Origins of Life
292(2)
A Brief History of Life
294(4)
Small Changes Add Up to Big Differences
298(2)
Big Changes Over Time: The Results of Combined Innovations
300(2)
Writing Poetry Evolution's Way
302(2)
Even a Small Advantage Tends to Survive and Multiply
304(2)
Multiple Changes
306(4)
Doing Science---Focus on the Fine Structure of Bone
309(1)
Variation and Selection
310(4)
Sex
314(1)
Why Do It?
315(5)
Mutations
320(2)
Evolutionary Breakthroughs
322(2)
Mobile Information
324(4)
Doing Science---``Jumping Genes'': Corn and Cold Spring Harbor
325(3)
Viruses
328(2)
How New Species Arise
330(6)
Co-Evolution
336(4)
Can Habits Be Inherited?
340(2)
An Experiment in Evolution
342(2)
Evidence of Relatedness
344(4)
Tools of Science---Radiometric Dating
346(2)
The Evolutioin of Intelligence
348(2)
Cultural Evolution
350(4)
Glossary 354(8)
Notes 362(2)
Answers 364(3)
Credits 367(1)
Index 368

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