Genes Diseases 1005MSC Custom Book

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Themes in the Study of Life 1
Unit 1 The Chemistry of Life 28
2 The Chemical Context of Life 30
3 Water and Life 46
4 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life 60
5 The Structure and Function of Large Biological Molecules 70
Unit 2 The Cell 94
6 A Tour of the Cell 96
7 Membrane Structure and Function 127
8 An Introduction to Metabolism 144
9 Cellular Respiration and Fermentation 165
10 Photosynthesis 188
11 Cell Communication 210
12 The Cell Cycle 232
Unit 3 Genetics 250
13 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles 252
14 Mendel and the Gene Idea 266
15 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance 290
16 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance 309
17 From Gene to Protein 331
18 Regulation of Gene Expression 357
19 Viruses 387
20 Biotechnology 402
21Genomes and Their Evolution 434
Unit 4 Mechanisms of Evolution 458
22 Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life 460
23 The Evolution of Populations 477
24 The Origin of Species 496
25 The History of Life on Earth 515
Unit 5 The Evolutionary History of Biological Diversity 544
26 Phylogeny and the Tree of Life 546
27 Bacteria and Archaea 566
28 Protists 585
29 Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonised Land 610
30 Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants 628
31 Fungi 652
32 An Overview of Animal Diversity 670
33 An Introduction to Invertebrates 682
34 The Origin and Evolution of Vertebrates 713
Appendix A:Answers A–1
Glossary G–1
Index I–1