The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 336 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: DK
- Publication Date: 2021-06-29
- ISBN-10: 0744027381
- ISBN-13: 9780744027389
- Sales Rank: #10456 (See Top 100 Books)
You don’t have to be a scientist to find this beginner’s biology book fascinating!
What is life? Why do bees dance? How do animals know their mothers?
Who discovered germs? Discover the living world, how it interacts with the environment, and stand in awe of the most interesting biology facts, theories, and discoveries.
The Biology Book is written in simple English making complex biological ideas accessible to everyone! Whether you’re a student or lay-scientist, you’ll find these pages exciting and educational because it:
- Combines creative typography, graphics, and accessible text to explore the most famous and important ideas in biology and the people behind them
- Includes a directory section for easy localization
- Profiles more than 95 ideas and events key to the development of biology and the life sciences, with thought-provoking graphics throughout that demystify the central concepts behind each idea
- Features insightful and inspiring quotes from leading biologists and scientists, such as 2020 Nobel Laureates, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, as well as thinkers in other fields
Learn everything you wanted to know about Biology
Over the last few centuries, humans have been enamored by the world around us. Trace the history of scientific thought and meet the scientists who shaped the natural sciences, such as Carl Linnaeus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin, and Gregor Mendel. From the mechanics of plants, animals, and the human body; to DNA and genetic inheritance; and the development of vaccines, explore the crucial discoveries to understand how our world works.
The Biology Book uncovers over 95 key ideas in the field of biology. Step by step flowcharts, diagrams, and accessible text will help demystify complex biological processes and help you enhance your understanding. This biology book also discusses current trends such as cloning, neuroscience, human evolution, and gene editing. Whether you’re new to the subject, a budding scientist, or keen to keep up with and understand current ethical and scientific debates, The Biology Book is for you.
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Love what you see here? Look out for other titles in the series such as The History Book, The Astronomy Book, and The Science Book. Specially written to help make tricky concepts simple, they’re perfect for helping to mould and educate young minds.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIFE A window into the body How feebly men have labored in the field of Anatomy from the times of Galen Animals are machines I can make urea without kidneys The true biological atom All cells come from cells Life is not a miracle Smaller cells reside inside the larger cells A flexible mosaic of gatekeepers FOOD AND ENERGY Life is a chemical process Plants have a faculty to correct bad air The virtues of oranges and lemons The conversion of victuals into virtues The saccharine, the oily, and the albuminous A better element does not exist on which to base life Life without free oxygen Cells are chemical factories They must fit together like lock and key The metabolic pathway that releases energy from food Photosynthesis is the absolute prerequisite for all life TRANSPORT AND REGULATION It had a movement, as it were, in a circle Blood passes through many windings The heart is simply a muscle Plants imbibe and perspire Chemical messengers carried by the bloodstream The constant conditions might be termed equilibria Air combining with the blood Oils upon the creaky machinery of life The master chemists of our internal environment No auxin—no growth The plant puts its fluids in motion BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR The muscles contracted into tonic convulsions The faculty of sensation, perception, and volition Three principal colors, red, yellow, and blue We speak with the left hemisphere The spark excites the action of the nerveomuscular force Instinct and learning go hand in hand Cells with delicate and elegant shapes Brain maps of man The impulse within the nerve liberates chemical substances A complete theory of how a muscle contracts Memory makes us who we are The object is held with two paws HEALTH AND DISEASE Sickness is not sent by the gods The dose makes the poison The microbes will have the last word The first object must be the destruction of any septic germs Remove it, but it will spring up again There are four different types of human blood A microbe to destroy other microbes A piece of bad news wrapped in protein There will be no more smallpox Antibodies are the touchstone of immunological theory GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION The little animals of the sperm Some organisms have dispensed with sexual reproduction A plant, like an animal hath organical parts From the most general forms the less general are developed The union of egg-cell and spermatic cell The mother-cell divides equally between the daughter nuclei On this, the resemblance of a child to its parent depends First proof of the autonomy of life Master control genes The creation of the greatest happiness Dolly, the first clone of an adult animal INHERITANCE Ideas of species, inheritance, variation The physical basis of heredity The X element DNA is the transforming principle One gene—one enzyme I could turn a developing snail’s egg into an elephant Two interwoven spiral staircases DNA embodies the genetic code of all living organisms A cut, paste, and copy operation The sequence of the beast The first draft of the human book of life Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life DIVERSITY OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION The first step is to know the things themselves Relics of a primeval world Animals have in course of time been profoundly altered The strongest live and the weakest die Mutations yield new and constant forms Natural selection spreads favorable mutations Drastic change occurs in an isolated population All true classification is genealogical The clock-like property of evolution We are survival machines The extinction coincides with the impact ECOLOGY All Bodies have some Dependance upon one another Animals of one continent are not found in another The interaction of habitat, life forms, and species A competition between prey and a predatory species Living matter is incessantly moving, decomposing, and reforming One will crowd out the other The basic units of nature on Earth Networks through which energy is flowing An organism’s niche is its profession Man’s war against nature is inevitably war against himself Division of area by ten divides the fauna by two Gaia is the superorganism composed of all life DIRECTORY GLOSSARY INDEX QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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