Biology / Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The chemistry of life -- The chemical context of life -- Water and the fitness of the environment -- Carbon and the molecular diversity of life -- The structure and function of large biological molecules -- The cell -- A tour of the cell -- Membrane structure and function -- An introduction to metabolism -- Cellular respiration: harvesting chemical energy -- Photosynthesis -- Cell communication -- The cell cycle -- Genetics -- Meiosis and sexual life cycles -- Mendel and the gene idea -- The chromosomal basis of inheritance -- The molecular basis of inheritance -- From gene to protein -- Control of gene expression -- Viruses -- Biotechnology -- Genomes and their evolution -- Mechanisms of evolution -- Descent with modification: a Darwinian view of life -- The evolution of populations -- The origin of species -- The history of life on earth -- The evolutionary history of biological diversity -- Phylogeny and the tree of life -- Bacteria and archaea -- Protists -- Plant diversity I: how plants colonized land -- Plant diversity II: the evolution of seed plants -- Fungi -- An introduction to animal diversity -- Invertebrates -- Vertebrates -- Plant form and function -- Plant structure, growth, and development -- Transport in vascular plants -- Soil and plant nutrition -- Angiosperm reproduction and biotechnology -- Plant responses to internal and external signals -- Animal form and function -- Basic principles of animal form and function -- Animal nutrition -- Circulation and gas exchange -- The immune system -- Osmoregulation and excretion -- Hormones and the endocrine system -- Animal reproduction -- Animal development -- Neurons, synapses, and signaling -- Nervous systems -- Sensory and motor mechanisms -- Animal behavior -- Ecology -- An introduction to ecology and the biosphere -- Population ecology -- Community ecology -- Ecosystems -- Conservation biology and restoration ecology.

Each of the eight units reflect the progress in scientific understanding of biological processes at many levels, from molecules to ecosystems.