Biology: 2025 Release

Name: Biology: 2025 Release
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ISBN: 9781264637133

by Robert J. Brooker

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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Print ISBN	9781264637133
eText ISBN	9781264407286
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publishing Year	2023
Language	English
Pages	1472

Biology: 2025 Release, written by Robert J. Brooker and published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, is an expansive textbook designed for biology students. The volume balances core biological concepts with practical training in critical thinking, decision making, and quantitative problem solving across 1,472 pages of detailed content.

The content logic connects microscopic biological mechanisms to global ecological systems across sixty chapters. Early sections examine the chemical basis of life, cell structure, metabolic pathways, cellular respiration, and cell communication. The text then transitions into nucleic acid structure, gene expression, developmental genetics, and evolutionary origin before covering microbial systems, plant form, and animal organ systems.

The final chapters address biomes, behavioral ecology, population dynamics, species interactions, and conservation biology. This broad curriculum fits general life sciences courses where students develop scientific reasoning skills alongside conceptual knowledge. The digital eTextbook edition is available on VitalSource in a reflowable format with options for 180-day, 1-year, or lifetime access.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Biology
Chapter 2: The Chemical Basis of Life I: Atoms, Molecules, and Water
Chapter 3: The Chemical Basis of Life II: Organic Molecules
Chapter 4: Evolutionary Origin of Cells and Their General Features
Chapter 5: Membrane Structure, Synthesis, and Transport
Chapter 6: An Introduction to Energy, Enzymes, and Metabolism
Chapter 7: Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
Chapter 8: Photosynthesis
Chapter 9: Cell Communication
Chapter 10: Multicellularity
Chapter 11: Nucleic Acid Structure, DNA Replication, and Chromosome Structure
Chapter 12: Gene Expression at the Molecular Level I: Production of mRNAs and Proteins
Chapter 13: Gene Expression at the Molecular Level II: Non-coding RNAs
Chapter 14: Gene Expression at the Molecular Level III: Gene Regulation
Chapter 15: Mutation, DNA Repair, and Cancer
Chapter 16: The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis
Chapter 17: Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance
Chapter 18: Epigenetics, Extranuclear Inheritance, and Linkage
Chapter 19: Genetics of Viruses and Bacteria
Chapter 20: Developmental Genetics
Chapter 21: Genetic Technologies and Genomics
Chapter 22: An Introduction to Evolution
Chapter 23: Population Genetics
Chapter 24: Origin of Species and Macroevolution
Chapter 25: Taxonomy and Systematics
Chapter 26: History of Life on Earth and Human Evolution
Chapter 27: Archaea and Bacteria
Chapter 28: Protists
Chapter 29: Fungi
Chapter 30: Microbiomes: Microbial Systems On and Around Us
Chapter 31: Plants and the Conquest of Land
Chapter 32: The Evolution and Diversity of Modern Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
Chapter 33: An Introduction to Animal Diversity
Chapter 34: The Invertebrates
Chapter 35: The Vertebrates
Chapter 36: An Introduction to Flowering Plant Form and Function
Chapter 37: Flowering Plants: Behavior
Chapter 38: Flowering Plants: Nutrition
Chapter 39: Flowering Plants: Transport
Chapter 40: Flowering Plants: Reproduction
Chapter 41: Animal Bodies and Homeostasis
Chapter 42: Neuroscience I: Cells of the Nervous System
Chapter 43: Neuroscience II: Evolution, Structure, and Function of the Nervous System
Chapter 44: Neuroscience III: Sensory Systems
Chapter 45: Musculoskeletal Systems and Locomotion
Chapter 46: Nutrition and Animal Digestive Systems
Chapter 47: Control of Energy Balance, Metabolic Rate, and Body Temperature
Chapter 48: Circulatory and Respiratory Systems
Chapter 49: Excretory Systems
Chapter 50: Endocrine Systems
Chapter 51: Animal Reproduction and Development
Chapter 52: Immune Systems
Chapter 53: Integrated Responses of Animal Organ Systems to a Challenge to Homeostasis
Chapter 54: An Introduction to Ecology and Biomes
Chapter 55: Behavioral Ecology
Chapter 56: Population Ecology
Chapter 57: Species Interactions
Chapter 58: Communities and Ecosystems: Ecological Organization on Large Scales
Chapter 59: The Ecological Impact of Humans
Chapter 60: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology