Main description:

Teach students to view their world using scientific reasoning with Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology. The authors' approach equips your students to become better informed citizens, relate concepts from class to their everyday lives, and understand and apply real data, making biology relevant and meaningful to their world and futures.
The new edition incorporates instructor feedback on what key skills to highlight in new Process of Science essays and uses striking infographic figures in conveying real data to help students see and better understand how science actually works. New author-narrated Figure Walkthrough Videos guide students through key biology concepts and processes.

Contents:

1 Learning About Life
2 Essential Chemistry for Biology
3 The Molecules of Life
4 A Tour of the Cell
5 The Working Cell
6 Cellular Respiration: Obtaining Energy from Food
7 Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food
8 Cellular Reproduction: Cells from Cells
9 Patterns of Inheritance
10 The Structure and Function of DNA
11 How Genes Are Controlled
12 DNA Technology
13 How Populations Evolve
14 How Biological Diversity Evolves
15 The Evolution of Microbial Life
16 The Evolution of Plants and Fungi
17 The Evolution of Animals 18 An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere
19 Population Ecology
20 Communities and Ecosystems
21 Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function
22 Nutrition and Digestion
23 Circulation and Respiration
24 The Body's Defenses
25 Hormones
26 Reproduction and Development
27 Nervous, Sensory, and Locomotor Systems
28 The Life of a Flowering Plant
29 The Working Plant