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      Variation and Population Genetics

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      This book describes and analyzes genetic and environmental factors that cause variation in individuals and populations. Data will be used to evaluate the processes by which variation is generated in…

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      Behavior and Information Exchange

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Animal behavior includes the exchange of non-heritable information between individuals of the same species. Animals exchange information for a variety of reasons, including mating, defense, and cooperation, and all of…

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      Cells in Tissues

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Two systems illustrate how individual cells of an organ system function, communicate, and coordinate activities. The digestive system breaks down and absorbs nutrients, and some specialized cells break down and…

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      Ecological Homeostasis

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Individual organisms contribute to nutrient cycling in ecological systems, which is shown to be a mechanism of homeostasis at that level. The phosphorus and nitrogen cycles are used to illustrate…

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      Ecological Homeostasis

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Food webs, energy flow, indirect effects, and nutrient cycling are described as properties that emerge in ecological systems. Several of these properties are shown in this book to result from…

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      Ecological Dynamics

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Population growth, dynamics, and blooms of bacterial, unicellular eukaryotes, and toxic algae are described in this book. Microbes are used to illustrate both exponential and logistic population growth. Microbes are…

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      Effects of Genetic and Pathogenic Diseases on Cells

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Several genetic and pathogenic diseases are described to illustrate how diseases can and do disrupt normal molecular and cellular functions, and how those disruptions affect entire organisms. In the case…

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      Emergent Properties of Individual Organisms

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      This book begins by describing what an individual organism is, comparing preconceptions of the individual to non-standard ways of thinking about individuals. Variation in what individuals are is described, using…

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      Evolutionary History

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      This book describes how evolutionary history is studied using several well-known examples and also using evolutionary trees. Evolutionary trees are analyzed and used to explain adaptive radiations of orchids and…

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      Evolution of Interactions in Communities

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Pairwise and diffuse coevolution are defined, with examples that include mutualisms and predator-prey interactions. In any example of coevolution, the costs and benefits to both species involved in the interaction…

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      Information in the Environment

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      This book identifies the commonalities between communication within a species and communication between species. Behavior and exchange of non-heritable information occurs between individuals of different species, in animals and plants…

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      Mechanisms of Evolution

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Three of the four major mechanisms of evolution, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow are examined. There are 5 tenets of natural selection that influence individual organisms: Individuals within…

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      Organismal Homeostasis

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Organisms maintain homeostasis in a variety of ways. In the first part of this book, mammals are shown to regulate their body temperatures through homeostatic mechanisms. The data from thermoregulation…

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      Population Homeostasis

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      This book will synthesize the concepts of selection against individuals in response to environmental change to illustrate how selection against individuals results in homeostasis at the population level. For instance…

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      Properties in and of Populations

      Christopher J Paradise,A Malcolm Campbell

      Properties of populations include age and spatial distribution, both of which emerge from actions and properties of individuals and can affect population dynamics, the changes in populations and metapopulations over…

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      Animal Physiology

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      This book examines four examples of animal physiology that illustrate emergent properties in whole organisms. The first example shows how mammals coordinate the activity of all their cells using a…

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      Cellular Consequences of Evolution

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Once the first cell arose on Earth, how did genetic diversity arise if DNA replication and cell division generate exact copies? The answer is that neither process is perfect and…

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      Cell Networks

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      It is common for most people to mistakenly think that humans are the only species that can coordinate their behavior and build structures that protect them from the environment. Students…

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      Cellular Structure and Function

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      All organisms are composed of cells, but what is the definition of a cell? Can size, shape or function be used to distinguish cells from non-living biological systems such as…

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      Cellular Respiration

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      What happens to a meal after it is eaten? Food consists primarily of lipids, proteins and carbohydrates (sugars). How do cells in the body process food once it is eaten…

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      Evolution of Eukaryotes

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Many people have a vague sense that the hypothesized origin of life, in the form of bacteria, sounds plausible. However, few people can fathom how the first eukaryotic cell, complete…

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      Evolution and Origin of Cells

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      It is easy to understand how cells are produced from preexisting cells. And it is possible to imagine how space dust condensed to form inanimate planets. But what stumps most…

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      Molecular Switches

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      This book introduces the concept of emergent properties, which are unexpected traits found only when two or more biological components interact. Experimental evidence of several emergent properties explains how hemoglobin…

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      Molecular Structure and Function

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      One of the overarching themes in nature is that form meets function, meaning that the shape of an object determines how well the object can perform its function. This book…

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      Neurons and Muscles

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Whenever a dancer or an athlete performs amazing feats, it is the consequence of two very interesting cell types: neurons and muscles. When the two of these cell types work…

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      Photosynthesis

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Perhaps the most important chemical reactions on the planet take place inside a plant’s chloroplasts. In this tiny green organelle, plants have the capacity to capture the energy in light…

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      Plant Physiology

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      This book examines three ways plants respond to their changing environment. The first example can be found in all plants. Despite the extreme changes in weather, plants have to stay…

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      Reproduction and Cell Division

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Why do some children look more like one parent than another? How can two parents with dark hair have a child with red hair? How can two dark-skinned parents have…

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      The Source of Genetic Information

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Everyone who has taken any biology class knows that DNA is the heritable material. However, very few people know the evidence that led to this conclusion. Science is a discipline…

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      Using DNA Information to Make Proteins

      A Malcolm Campbell,Christopher J Paradise

      Many people were taught that DNA is the blueprint of the cell, but what does that really mean? If taken literally, it would reveal a static image of what the…

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