Pires, D: Biology: How Life Works plus LaunchPad

¿1. Life: Chemical, Cellular and Evolutionary Foundations.- Case 1 The First Cell: Information, Homeostasis, and Energy2. The Molecules of Life3. Nucleic Acids: The Encoding of Biological Information4. Translation and Protein Structure5. Organizing Principles: Lipids, Membranes, and Cell Compartments6. Making Life Work: Capturing and Using Energy7. Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Energy from Carbohydrates8. Photosynthesis: Using Sunlight to Build Carbohydrates.- Case 2 Cancer: Cell Signaling, Form, and Division9. Cell Signaling10. Cell Form and Function: Cytoskeleton, Cellular Junctions, and Extracellular Matrix11. Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis.- Case 3 You, from A to T: Your Personal Genome12. DNA Replication and Manipulation13. Genomes14. Mutation and Genetic Variation15. Mendelian Inheritance16. Sex Chromosomes, Linkage and Organelles17. The Genetic and Environmental Basis of Complex Traits18. Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation19. Genes and Development20. Animal Nervous Systems21. Animal Movement: Muscles and Skeleton.- Case 4 Malaria: Co-evolution of Humans and a Parasite22. Evolution: Change over Time23. Endocrine System24. Species and Speciation25. Evolutionary Patterns: Phylogeny and Fossils26. Human Origins and Evolution.- Case 5 The Human Microbiome: Diversity Within27.The Diversity of Prokaryotes28. Eukaryotic Cells: Origins and Diversity29. Being Multicellular.- Case 6 Agriculture: Feeding a Growing Population30. Plant Structure and Physiology: Moving Photosynthesis onto Land31. Plant Reproduction: Finding Mates and Dispersing Offspring32. Plant Defense: Keeping the World Green33. Plant Growth and Development: Building the Plant Body34. Plant Diversity35. Fungi: Structure, Function and Diversity.- Case 7 Biology Inspired Engineering: Using Nature to Solve Problems36. Animal Form, Function, and Evolutionary History37. Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems38. Metabolism, Nutrition, and Digestion39. Animal Renal Systems: Water and Waste40. Animal

¿James R. Morris is Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. He teaches a wide variety of courses for majors and non-majors, including introductory biology, evolution, genetics and genomics, epigenetics, comparative vertebrate anatomy, and a first-year seminar on Darwin's On the Origin of Species. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards from Brandeis and Harvard. Dr. Morris received a PhD in genetics from Harvard University and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, and a National Academies Education Fellow and Mentor in the Life Sciences. Daniel L. Hartl is Higgins Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. His lab studies molecular evolutionary genetics and population genetics and genomics. Dr. Hartl is the recipient of the Samuel Weiner Outstanding Scholar Award as well as the Gold Medal of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples. He has served as President of the Genetics Society of America and President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Dr. Hartl's PhD is from the University of Wisconsin, and he did postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Andrew H. Knoll is Fisher Professor of Natural History in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is also Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Knoll teaches introductory courses in both departments. His research focuses on the early evolution of life, Precambrian environmental history, and the interconnections between the two. He has also worked extensively on the early evolution of animals, mass extinction, and plant evolution.Robert Lue is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University and the Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.