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A Synopsis of Biology.
A Synopsis of Biology, Second Edition presents a critical review of general topics in the field of biology. This book is organized into eight sections encompassing 164 chapters that discuss the form and structure of living and non-living, as well as the physiology of organism and the environment. Co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
John Wright & Sons,
1964.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; A Synoposis of Biology; Copyright Page; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS USED IN THE TEXT; ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; LIST OF PRIORITIES; SECTION I: FORM AND STRUCTURE (MORPHOLOGY); CHAPTER 1. LIVING AND NON-LIVING; CHAPTER 2. ORIGIN OF LIFE; HYPOTHESIS OF COSMOZOA.; CHAPTER 3. BASIC PATTERNS; SEGMENTATION; SYMMETRY; PHYLLOTAXIS; CHAPTER 4. THE CELL; THE NUCLEUS; AMITOSIS OR DIRECT DIVISION; MITOSIS, KARYOKINESIS, OR INDIRECT DIVISION; MEIOSIS OR REDUCTION DIVISION.
- Cytoplasmgolgz apparatus; mitochondria; archoplasm; inclusions; cell-wall; matrix; cell communications; chapter 5. plants and animals; chapter 6. vegetative reproduction; repair and regeneration; cuttings; grafting; equal fission; polyembryont; budding; fragmentation; gemma formation; stabilization; storage organ formation; bulbil formation; vegetative encystment; chapter 7. asexual reproduction; resting spores; conidia; basidia; zoosporangia; aplanosporangia; autosporangia; asci; sporogonia; multicellular sporangia; parthenogenesis; apogamy; p�dogenesis; chapter 8. sexual reproduction.
- Agamogamyplasmogamy; hologamy; isogamy; heterothallism; heterogamy; oogamy in animals; zoidogamy in plants; siphonogamy in plants; carpogonial fertilization; ascogonial fertilization; reduced sexuality; chapter 9. alternation of generations; chapter 10. development; chapter 11. plant tissues; tissues of non-vascular plants; tissues of vascular plants; meristem; mature tissues of vascular plants; chapter 12. the alga; chlamtdomonas; volvox; chlorococcum; chlorella; ulothrix; coleoch�te; pleurococcus; vaucheria; cladophora; oedogonium; spirogyra; fucus; chapter 13. the lichen; xanthoria.
- Chapter 14. the fungusbacillus; saccharomyces; mucor; pythium; erysiphe; aspergillus (= eurotium); psalliota; chapter 15. the liverwort and the moss; the liverwort; the moss; chapter 16. the fern and the club-moss; the fern; selaginella; lycopodium; chapter 17. the conifer and the cycad; pinus; cycas; chapter 18. the flowering plant; chapter 19. the root; chapter 20. the stem; chapter 21. the leaf; chapter 22. the flower; chapter 23. the fruit; chapter 24. seeds and seedlings; chapter 25. the protozoan; am�ba; euglena; paramecium; monocystis; chapter 26. animal tissues; epithelia.
- Simple epitheliacompound epithelia; glandular epithelia; connective tissues; simple connective tissues; liquid tissues; sclerous or skeletal tissues; muscular tissues; striped muscle; plain muscle; cardiac muscle; nervous tissue; neuroglia; white matter; grey matter; chapter 27. the c�lenterate; hydra; obelxa; chapter 28. animal organs; skeletal or osseous system; articular system; muscular system; nervous system; sensory system; dermal system; alimentary system; respiratory system; circulatory system; glandular system; excretory or urinary system; reproductive or genital system.