Animal Development Biology introduces the subject of developmental biology through a wide range of organisms, offering insights into the fundamental principles that shape life's diverse and extraordinary forms. It covers all the essential topics, including cell biology, cell signalling, cell specialization, the genomic control of development, evidence for evolution, and cell ageing and death. The chapters present different aspects of developmental biology, providing a robust basis for understanding the molecular and morphological events that occur during embryo development, but that are also important in adult homeostasis, regeneration, and disease. It looks into the secrets of stem cells, the marvels of regeneration, and the paradox of how a broadly conserved genome can support the biodiversity we see throughout the natural world.
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Trudy McKee and James R. McKee
Biochemistry begins with an introduction to the topic. Discussions covered include living cells, the importance of water to life, energy, and amino acids, peptides, and proteins. The book also contains chapters on carbohydrates, carbohydrate metabolism, aerobic metabolism, and lipids and membranes. The text goes on to examine photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism, nucleic acids, and genes. Finally, it looks at protein synthesis.
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Richard Bowater, Laura Bowater, and Tom Husband
Biochemistry introduces this topic with an examination of carbohydrates, asking why we need them in our lives. It then looks at the building blocks of a cell, namely, lipids and proteins. Nucleotides and nucleic acids are the next topic to be covered. The text moves on to consider metabolism. It asks what it means and how energy is transformed. Other questions asked include: how is a metabolic balance maintained? How can we solve the problems of the future with natural products? Finally, the text looks at bioenergy and the environment.
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Despo Papachristodoulou, Alison Snape, William H. Elliott, and Daphne C. Elliott
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is made up of six parts. Part 1 covers the basic concepts of life. Part 2 is about the structure and function of proteins and membranes. The third part looks at metabolism and nutrition. The fourth part of the book covers information storage and utilization. The fifth part looks at cells and tissues. Finally, the sixth part is about protective mechanisms against disease such as blood clotting, xenobiotic metabolism, reactive oxygen, and the immune system.
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Jon Scott, Gus Cameron, Anne Goodenough, Dawn Hawkins, Jenny Koenig, Martin Luck, Despo Papachristodoulou, Alison Snape, Kay Yeoman, and Mark Goodwin
Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life spans the full scale of biological science — from molecule to ecosystem. The first part of the text looks at life and its exploration. Topics covered in this section include exploring the science of life, the emergence of life on earth, defining life, evolutionary processes, and the diversity and organisation of life. Here, classification of life is also dealt with. The next section moves on to quantitative toolkits. Here, the text showcases nine toolkits which look at understanding data, size and scale, describing data, ratio and proportion, understanding samples, designing experiments, assessing patterns, formulae and equations, and rates of changes. Thereafter there are five modules. The first module is about life at the molecular level. Topics here include genetics, genomes, proteins, metabolism, and molecular tools. The second module looks at life at the cellular level. Here the text examines cell division, microbial diversity, microbes in life, and viruses. Module 3 is about the human organism and looks in detail at tissues, organs, and systems. The fourth module covers organismal diversity and describes structure, adaptation, and survival. The text finishes with a fifth module which looks at organism in their environments. Here, the chapters turn to ecology, evolution, genes, populations, communities, and ecosystems.
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Jon Scott, Gus Cameron, Anne Goodenough, Dawn Hawkins, Jenny Koenig, Martin Luck, Despo Papachristodoulou, Alison Snape, Kay Yeoman, and Mark Goodwin
Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life spans the full scale of biological science — from molecule to ecosystem. The first part of the text looks at life and its exploration. Topics covered in this section include exploring the science of life, the emergence of life on earth, defining life, evolutionary processes, and the diversity and organisation of life. Here, classification of life is also dealt with. The next section moves on to quantitative toolkits. Here, the text showcases nine toolkits which look at understanding data, size and scale, describing data, ratio and proportion, understanding samples, designing experiments, assessing patterns, formulae and equations, and rates of changes. Thereafter there are five modules. The first module is about life at the molecular level. Topics here include genetics, genomes, proteins, metabolism, and molecular tools. The second module looks at life at the cellular level. Here the text examines cell division, microbial diversity, microbes in life, and viruses. Module 3 is about the human organism and looks in detail at tissues, organs, and systems. The fourth module covers organismal diversity and describes structure, adaptation, and survival. The text finishes with a fifth module which looks at organism in their environments. Here, the chapters turn to ecology, evolution, genes, populations, communities, and ecosystems.
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Aysha Divan and Janice Royds
The Cancer Challenge provides an overview of key milestones in the history of cancer research, our current understanding of the disease, and future directions in its diagnosis and treatment. The book introduces key concepts in the study of cancer, explaining how cancers develop, covering a variety of approaches to their diagnosis and treatment. It also includes discussions of new approaches to preventing cancers, screening programmes, and innovations in diagnosis that draw on AI. These provide insights into current developments in cancer research and show how they benefit patients.
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Edited by Guy Orchard and Brian Nation
Cell Structure & Function starts by introducing cell structure, molecular construction, and communication strategies. It looks at techniques for studying cells; anatomy, embryology, and cell families; blood cell genesis; nerves; and lungs. Next it turns to the alimentary canal, cells and commercial bacteria of the alimentary canal, and the cells of the vascular and lymphatic systems. There is then a chapter on connective tissue, bones, cartilage, and muscle. Next, the text deals with the cells of the liver and kidney, reproductive cells and gametogenesis, and the endocrine system. Finally, the book looks at the cells of the skin.
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Jonathan Crowe and Tony Bradshaw
Chemistry for the Biosciences explores all of the essential chemical concepts that students of biology need to know and understand. It starts by looking at atoms as the foundations for life, and how chemical bonding brings together atoms to form molecules and compounds. It also considers the interactions that operate between molecules, and what the chemical and biological implications of these interactions are. After considering a range of quantitative concepts relevant to the study of biology – moles, concentrations, and dilutions – it discusses the molecular basis of organic chemistry by considering hydrocarbons and functional groups. The text moves on to consider isomerism, molecular shape and structure, and the structure and function of key biological macromolecules. After explaining why metals have an important role in biological systems, it goes on to explore what happens during chemical reactions, and introduces oxidation, and reduction. It then explores concepts from the field of physical chemistry that are vital our understanding of life: energy, equilibria, and kinetics. After exploring acids, bases and buffers and their importance to biological systems, it concludes with a review of how we can use chemical analysis to better understand biological molecules.
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Nessar Ahmed
Clinical Biochemistry
covers the core topics in the field of biochemistry, placing it in the context of human disease. Throughout the text, the theory is continually related to laboratory practice through the use of examples and case studies. Topics covered include biochemical investigations and quality control, automation, kidney disease, hyperuricaemia, gout, and fluid and electrolyte disorders. The text also looks at acid-based disorders, liver function, lipid metabolism, and other disorders such as disorders of calcium, phosphate, and magnesium homeostasis. Thyroid disease is covered. Cancer biochemistry is an important topic here and the text also examines tumour markers. There is a chapter on newborn screening and inherited metabolic disorders. Finally, the text considers chemical toxicology.
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Communication Skills for the Biosciences looks first at essential communication skills useful for the sciences. It examines recording and managing information and ethics in communication. It provides an introduction to the scientific literature available, how to conduct effective literature searches, and reviewing the literature. The text shows the reader how to write a literature review, a research proposal, a research paper, and an abstract. It also explains in detail how to prepare tables and figures, as this is one of the essential skills required for writing about biosciences. The text looks at beyond degree level and gives some tips on how to develop a Masters dissertation or a PhD thesis, and how to deliver an effective presentation or introduce a research poster. The last chapter of the book talks about networking.
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Jamil Momand, Alison McCurdy, Silvia Heubach, and Nancy Warter-Perez
Concepts in Bioinformatics and Genomics starts with a review of molecular biology and looks at its relevance to the topic. It then goes on to consider information organization and sequence databases, molecular evolution, substitution matrices, and pairwise sequence alignment. Other topics covered include the basic local alignment sequence tool and multiple sequence alignment, protein structure prediction, phylogenetics, genomics, transcript and protein expression analysis, and basic probability. There are also chapters on advanced probability for bioinformatics applications, programming basics and applications to bioinformatics, and how to develop a basic bioinformatics tool.
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Francis Gilbert and Hilary Gilbert
Conservation starts off by looking at conservation, ecology, and science and describing how they relate to each other. It then examines populations and how they may change in relationship to movement and the size of suitable habitat available, covering also processes that lead to extinction. Other topics include interactions among different species and the processes through which ecological communities are created. Ecosystems are treated next with a look at their relationship to human wellbeing. Finally, the text examines different human attitudes towards nature, including those of indigenous people, and different conservation strategies.
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Martin B Reed
Core Maths for the Biosciences consists of two parts. Part 1 looks atconsiders arithmetic, algebra, and functions. Here, chapters cover precision and accuracy, data tables, graphs, molarity and dilutions, variables, functions, equations, and linear functions. They also look at quadratic and polynomial functions, fitting curves, periodic functions, and exponential and logarithmic functions. Part 2 looks atfocusses on calculus and differential equations. It Chapters examines instantaneous rate-of-change, the rules of differentiation, applications of differentiation, techniques of integration, and the definite integral.
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Andrew D. Blann
Data Handling starts off with an analysis of information in the biomedical sciences. It then considers handling quantities which encompasses mass, volume, and concentration. It moves on to obtaining and verifying data. Next, it looks at presenting data in graphic form. Another chapter considers quality, audit, and good laboratory practice. The next three chapters are about research, setting the scene, the analysis of modest data sets, and large data sets. Finally, the text ends with an examination of communication methods.
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Michael J. F. Barresi and Scott F. Gilbert
Development Biology presents exciting developments in this field. The first few chapters look at patterns and processes of becoming and provides a framework for understanding animal development. The text then turns to an examination of gametogenesis and fertilization. The next few chapters tackle early development: cleavage, gastrulation, and axis formation. There follow chapters about building with ectoderm and building with mesoderm and endoderm. The next few chapters cover postembryonic development. Finally, the last part looks at development in wider context including an examination of development in health and disease, and the environment, and evolution.
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William D. Bowman and Sally D. Hacker
Ecology starts off with an introduction to the ‘web of
life’. The rest of the text is composed of seven units. Unit 1 looks at
organisms and their environment. Unit 2 is about evolutionary ecology and includes
behavioural ecology. The next unit looks at populations: population distribution,
dynamics, and growth. Then the text turns to species interactions which includes
predation, parasitism, competition, mutualism, and commensalism. Communities are
considered next. What are communities? How do they change? What does species
diversity mean? The sixth unit examines ecosystems. The final unit looks at
conservation biology, landscape ecology, and global ecology.
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Douglas J. Futuyma and Mark Kirkpatrick
Evolution offers expertise in evolutionary genetics and genomics, the
fastest-developing area of evolutionary biology. The text emphasizes the interplay between
theory and empirical tests of hypotheses, thus acquainting readers with the process of science.
It addresses major themes — including the history of evolution, human evolution,
evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework. In addition, it
examines levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities.
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Neil Ingram, Sylvia Hixson Andrews, and Jane Still
Evolution provides an introduction to evolution. It traces the history of the emergence of life, by contextualizing the development of evolutionary thought and discussing the implications of evolutionary processes on modern-day genomics, biochemistry, and ecology. The text explores topics that are familiar and also introduces new ideas. Chapters include an introduction to evolution, the birth and death of species, and an examination of the evidence. The latter half of the book looks at the evolution of a theory, human evolution, and the human story so far.
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Graham Bell
The Evolution of Life provides an introduction to the central issue of evolutionary biology—adaptation through natural selection—in six sections. The first section looks at the basics, covering the evidence and engine of evolution. The second part looks at the history of evolution, examining the tree of life, the diversity of life, and ancestry of life. The next section focuses on the origins of variation, species, and innovation. Then the text moves on to adaptation and includes an evaluation of the dynamic genome. Section 5 focuses on selection and covers artificial selection, experimental evolution, and selection in natural populations. The final section considers sexual selection, cooperation and conflict, and symbiosis and struggle.
