TY - BOOK AU - Purves, William K. TI - Life. the science of biology / William K. Purves SN - 0-7167-2276-3 PY - 1992/// CY - Estados Unidos de América : Sinauer Associates, Inc KW - 1. BIOLOGY 2. SCIENCE BIOLOGY 3. GENETICS 4. EDUCATION N1 - Content, illustrated, graph, table, map N2 - The science of biology, characteristics of living organisms, the methods of science, the cell, small molecules, large molecules; organization of the cell, membranes, energy, enzymes, and catalysis, pathways that release energy in cells, photosynthesis; information and heredity, mendelian genetics and beyond, nucleic acids the genetic material, molecular genetics of prokaryotes, gene expression in eukaryotes, recombinant DNA technology, animal development immunes and disease; evolutionary processes, the mechanisms of evolution, the multiplication of species, the evolution of reproductive isolation, systematics and phylogeny; the evolution of diversity viruses and monera, Protista, fungi, plants, sponges and protostomate animals, deuterostomate animals, pattrns in the evolution of life; the biology of flowering plants, transport, support, and protection, plant nutrition, reproduction and development in flowering plants; physiology, homeostasis, and the regulation, animal hormones, animal reproduction; ecology and biogeography, behavioral ecology, structure and dynamics of population, interaction within biological communities ER -