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Just the core concepts you need to score high in your biology course

Biology Essentials For Dummies focuses on just the core concepts you need to succeed in an introductory biology course. From identifying the structures and functions of plants and animals to grasping the crucial discoveries in evolutionary, reproductive, and ecological biology, this easy-to-follow guide lets you skip the suffering and score high at exam time.

 

Get down to basics - master the fundamentals, from understanding what biologists study to how living things are classified

The chemistry of life - find out what you need to know about atoms, elements, molecules, compounds, acids, bases, and more

Conquer and divide - discover the ins and outs of asexual and sexual reproduction, including cell division and DNA replication

 

Jump into the gene pool - grasp how proteins make traits happen, and easily understand DNA transcription, RNA processing, translation, and gene regulation.

 

 

Aus dem Inhalt:

INTRODUCTION 1 / About This Book 1 / Conventions Used in This Book 2 / Foolish Assumptions 2 / Icons Used in This Book 2 / Beyond the Book 3 / Where to Go from Here 3 / chapter 1. Exploringthe Living World 5 / Living Things: Why Biologists StudyThem, What Defines Them 5 / Meet Your Neighbors: Looking at Life on Earth 8 / Unsung heroes: Bacteria 8 / Bacteria impersonators: Archaeans 9 / Ataste of the familiar: Eukaryotes 9 / Classifying Living Things 11 / Organizing Life into Smaller and Smaller Groups: Taxonomy 11 / Biodiversity: Our Differences Make Us Stronger 14 / Valuing biodiversity 15 / Surveying the threats posed by human actions 15 / Exploring the extinction of species 16 / Protecting biodiversity 18 / Making Sense of the World through Observations 19 / chapter 2= The Chemistry of Life 23 / Exploring Why Matter Matters 23 / The Differences among Atoms, Elements, and Isotopes 24 / Tiny, mighty atoms 24 / Elements of elements 25 / I so dig isotopes 25 / Molecules, Compounds, and Bonds 26 / Acids and Bases 27 / "Ph"iguring out the pH scale 27 / Buffing up on buffers 28 / Carbon-Based Molecules: The Basis for All Life 28 / Providing energy: Carbohydrates 29 / Making life possible: Proteins 32 / Drawing the cellular road map: Nucleic acids 33 / Supplying structure, energy, and more: Lipids 36 // chapter 3: The Living Cell 39 / An Overview of Cells 39 / Peeking at Prokaryotic Cells 41 / Examining the Structure of Eukaryotic Cells 42 / Cells and the Organelles 44 / Holding it all together: The plasma membrane 44 / Supporting the cell: The cytoskeleton 48 / The nucleus controls the show 49 / Creating proteins: Ribosomes 50 / Serving as the cell's factory: The endoplasmic reticulum 50 / Preparing products for distribution: The Golgi apparatus 50 / Cleaning upthe trash: Lysosomes 51 / Destroying toxins: Peroxisomes 51 / Providing energy, ATP-style: Mitochondria 52 / Converting energy: Chloroplasts 52 / Presenting Enzymes, theJump-Starters 53 / Staying the same 54 / while lowering activation energy 55 / Getting some help from cofactors and coenzymes 55 / Controlling enzymesthrough feedback inhibition 56 / chapter4: Energy and Organisms 57 / Whafs Energy Got to Do with It? 57 / Looking at the rules regarding energy 58 / Metabolizing molecules 59 / Transferring energy with ATP 59 / Consumingfood for matter and energy 60 / Finding food versus producing your own 61 / Building Cells through Photosynthesis 63 / Transforming energy from the ultimate energy source 64 / Putting matterand energytogether 65 / Cellular Respiration: Using Oxygen to Break Down Food 65 / Breaking down food 67 / Transferring energy to ATP 68 / Energy and Your Body 70 / chapter5: Reproducing Cells 73 / Reproduction: Keep On Keepin' On 73 / How DNA Replication Works 75 / Cell Division: Outwith the Old, In with the New 78 / Interphase: Getting organized 80 / Mitosis: Onefor you, and one for you 81 / Meiosis: It's all about sex, baby 84 / How Sexual Reproduction Creates Genetic Variation 90 / Mutations 90 / Crossing-over 91 / Independent assortment 91 / Fertilization 91 / Nondisjunction 92 / Pink and blue chromosomes 92 / This Budding's for You: Asexual Reproduction 93 / chapter 6: DNAand Proteins: Life Partners 95 / Proteins Make Traits Happen, and DNAMakes the Proteins 95 / Moving from DNA to RNAto Protein 96 / Rewriting DNA's message: Transcription 97 / Putting on the finishing touches: RNA processing 101 / Converting the code to the right language: Translation 102 / Mistakes Happen: The Consequences of Mutation 106 / Giving Cells Some Control: Gene Regulation 109 / Adapting to environmental changes 109 / Becoming specialists through differentiation 110 / chapter7: Ecosystems and Populations 111 / Ecosystems Bring It All Together 111 / Biomes: Communities of life 112 / Interactions among species 113 / Studying Populations 114 / The basics of population ecology 115 / Howpopulations grow 118 / Taking a closer look at the human population 119 / Moving Energyand Matter around within Ecosystems 121 / Goingwith the (energy) flow 122 / Cycling matter through ecosystems 124 / chapter 8: Understanding Genetics 129 / Heritable Traits and the Factors Affecting Them 129 / Mendel's Laws of Inheritance 130 / Pure breeding the parentals 131 / Analyzing the F1 and F2 generations 131 / Reviewing Mendel's results 131 / Defining Key Genetics Terms 132 / Bearing Genetic Crosses , 133 / Genetic Engineering 136 / Understanding what's involved in DNAtechnology 136 / Genetically modified organisms 139 / Readinga gene with DNA sequencing 141 / Mappingthe genes of humanity 143 / chapter 9: Biological Evolution 145 / What People Used to Believe 145 / Charles Darwin: ChallengingAge-Old Beliefs 147 / Owing it all to the birds 147 / Darwin's theory of biological evolution 148 / The idea of natural selection 148 / Evidence of Biological Evolution 151 / Biochemistry 151 / Comparative anatomy 152 / Geographic distribution of species 153 / Molecular biology 153 / Fossil record 154 / Observable data 154 / Radioisotope dating 155 / Evolution versus Creationism 155 / chapter 10: Ten Great Biology Discoveries 157 / Seeing the Unseen 157 / Creating the First Antibiotic 158 / Protecting People from Smallpox 158 / Defining DNAStructure 158 / Finding and Fighting Defective Genes 159 / Discovering Modern Genetic Principles 159 / Evolving the Theoryof Natural Selection 159 / Formulating Cell Theory 160 / Moving Energythroughthe Krebs Cycle 160 / Amplifying DNAwith PCR 161 / INDEX 163