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Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781119589587) was previously published as Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781118072677). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. Just the core con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kratz, René Fester (Autor), Siegfried, Donna Rae (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : For Dummies, 2019.
Colección:--For dummies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Chapter 1 Exploring the Living World; Living Things: Why Biologists Study Them, What Defines Them; Meet Your Neighbors: Looking at Life on Earth; Unsung heroes: Bacteria; Bacteria impersonators: Archaeans; A taste of the familiar: Eukaryotes; Classifying Living Things; Organizing Life into Smaller and Smaller Groups: Taxonomy; Biodiversity: Our Differences Make Us Stronger; Valuing biodiversity 
505 8 |a Surveying the threats posed by human actionsExploring the extinction of species; Protecting biodiversity; Making Sense of the World through Observations; Chapter 2 The Chemistry of Life; Exploring Why Matter Matters; The Differences among Atoms, Elements, and Isotopes; Tiny, mighty atoms; Elements of elements; I so dig isotopes; Molecules, Compounds, and Bonds; Acids and Bases; "Ph"iguring out the pH scale; Buffing up on buffers; Carbon-Based Molecules: The Basis for All Life; Providing energy: Carbohydrates; Making life possible: Proteins; Drawing the cellular road map: Nucleic acids 
505 8 |a Supplying structure, energy, and more: LipidsChapter 3 The Living Cell; An Overview of Cells; Peeking at Prokaryotic Cells; Examining the Structure of Eukaryotic Cells; Cells and the Organelles; Holding it all together: The plasma membrane; Supporting the cell: The cytoskeleton; The nucleus controls the show; Creating proteins: Ribosomes; Serving as the cell's factory: The endoplasmic reticulum; Preparing products for distribution: The Golgi apparatus; Cleaning up the trash: Lysosomes; Destroying toxins: Peroxisomes; Providing energy, ATP-style: Mitochondria; Converting energy: Chloroplasts 
505 8 |a Presenting Enzymes, the Jump-StartersStaying the same . . .; ... while lowering activation energy; Getting some help from cofactors and coenzymes; Controlling enzymes through feedback inhibition; Chapter 4 Energy and Organisms; What's Energy Got to Do with It?; Looking at the rules regarding energy; Metabolizing molecules; Transferring energy with ATP; Consuming food for matter and energy; Finding food versus producing your own; Building Cells through Photosynthesis; Transforming energy from the ultimate energy source; Putting matter and energy together 
505 8 |a Cellular Respiration: Using Oxygen to Break Down FoodBreaking down food; Transferring energy to ATP; Energy and Your Body; Chapter 5 Reproducing Cells; Reproduction: Keep On Keepin' On; How DNA Replication Works; Cell Division: Out with the Old, In with the New; Interphase: Getting organized; Mitosis: One for you, and one for you; Meiosis: It's all about sex, baby; How Sexual Reproduction Creates Genetic Variation; Mutations; Crossing-over; Independent assortment; Fertilization; Nondisjunction; Pink and blue chromosomes; This Budding's for You: Asexual Reproduction 
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