Main description:

Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology with MasteringBiology (R), Fourth Edition, makes biology irresistibly interesting for non-majors biology students. This best-selling text, known for its scientific accuracy and currency, makes biology relevant and approachable with increased use of analogies, real world examples, more conversational language, and intriguing questions. Over 100 new MasteringBiology activities engage students outside of the classroom, plus new PowerPoint (R) presentations on issues like infectious disease and climate change offer a springboard for high-impact lectures.

Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology... make biology irresistibly interesting.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Biology Today

I. CELLS

2. The Molecules of Life

3. A Tour of the Cell

4. The Working Cell

5. Cellular Respiration: Obtaining Energy from Food

6. Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food

II. GENETICS

7. Cellular Reproduction: Cells from Cells

8. Patterns of Inheritance

9. The Structure and Function of DNA

10. How Genes Are Controlled

11. DNA Technology

III. EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY

12. How Populations Evolve

13. How Biological Diversity Evolves

14. The Evolution of Microbial Life

15. Plants, Fungi, and the Move onto Land

16. The Evolution of Animals

IV. ECOLOGY

17. An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere

18. Population Ecology

19. Communities and Ecosystems

V. ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

20. Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function

21. Nutrition and Digestion

22. Circulation and Respiration

23. The Body's Defenses

24. Hormones

25. Reproduction and Development

26. Nervous, Sensory, and Motor Systems

VI. PLANT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

27. The Life of a Flowering Plant

28. The Working Plant

29. Essential Chemistry for Biology