Principles of Biology
About This Book
The Nature of Science Biology is a science, but what exactly is science? What does the study of biology share with other scientific disciplines? Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) can be defined as knowledge about the natural world. Science is a very specific way of learning, or knowing, about the world. The history of the past 500 years demonstrates that science is a very powerful way of knowing about the world; it is largely responsible for the technological revolutions tha
| Category | science |
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| Subject | Biology, life sciences |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 54 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- The Nature of Science
- Presenting Data – Graphs and Tables
- Atoms
- Chemical Bonds
- Water
- Carbohydrates
- Lipids are hydrophobic (“water-fearing”), or insoluble in water. Lipids perform
- Nucleic Acids
- Primary Navigation
- What makes something living?
- The Diversity of Life
- The Plasma Membrane
- The Plasma Membrane and The Cytoplasm
- Flagella and Cilia
- The Endoplasmic Reticulum
- The Golgi Apparatus
- Vesicles and Vacuoles, Lysosomes, and Peroxisomes
- Summary Table of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells and Functions
- Metabolic Pathways
- Free and Activation Energy
- Types of Receptors
- Propagation of the signal
- Metabolism
- An overview of Cellular Respiration
- Aerobic Respiration, Part 1: Glycolysis
- Aerobic Respiration, Part 3: Oxidative Phosphorylation
- Metabolism without Oxygen: Fermentation
- Metabolism of molecules other than glucose
- Putting photosynthesis into context
- Cancer and the cell cycle
- Homologous Chromosomes and Sexual Reproduction
- Translation
- Errors in Meiosis
- Eukaryotic Transcriptional Regulation
- Eukaryotic Translational and Post-Translational Regulation
- Cancer and Gene Regulation
- Pedigrees and Punnett Squares
- Incomplete dominance: when traits blend
- KIT – embryonic lethality
- Pleiotropy – one gene affects more than one trait
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- Genetic Engineering
- Speciation
- Population Evolution
- Perspectives on the Phylogenetic Tree
- Biogeography
- Terrestrial Biomes
- Population Demography
- Population Dynamics and Regulation
- Community Ecology
- Behavioral Biology: Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Behavior
- Energy Flow through Ecosystems
- Preserving Biodiversity