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Setting the Stage | |
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A Singular Theme | |
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Thinking Small | |
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Using Microscopy to Explore the Cell and Beyond | |
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Parts and Wholes | |
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The Way Science Works | |
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The Way Life Works--The Basic Idea | |
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Patterns: An Overview of the Basic Concepts of Biology | |
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Life Builds from the Bottom Up | |
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Life Assembles Itself Into Chains | |
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Life Needs an Inside and an Outside | |
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Life Uses a Few Themes to Generate Many Variations | |
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Life Organizes with Information | |
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Life Encourages Variety by Recombining Information | |
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Life Creates with Mistakes | |
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Life Occurs in Water | |
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Life Runs on Sugar | |
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Life Works in Cycles | |
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Life Recycles Everything it Uses | |
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Life Maintains Itself by Turnover | |
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Life Tends to Optimize Rather Than Maximize | |
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Life Is Opportunistic | |
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Life Competes Within a Cooperative Framework | |
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Life Is Interconnected and Interdependent | |
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Energy--Light To Life | |
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Making Bonds | |
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Molecular Changes | |
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Life and The Laws of Energy | |
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ATP--The Energy Molecule | |
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Enzymes--Life's Clever Workers | |
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Enzymes and ATP--A Dynamic Duo | |
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Energy Flow Through Life--A Macro View | |
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Energy Flow Through Life--A Micro View | |
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The Chloroplast Ballroom | |
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Photosynthesis--Using Sunlight to Make Sugar | |
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Three Cheers for Carbon | |
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Respiration--Breaking Down Sugar to Make ATP | |
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Glycolysis | |
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Getting Energy to the Community | |
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Information--The Storehouse of Know-How | |
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Why Life Must Come From Life | |
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An Abbreviated History of Genetic Discoveries | |
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Life's Coding and Decoding Systems | |
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DNA--What Does It Actually Say? | |
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Nucleotides, Letters On A Backbone | |
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DNA--Base Pairs and Weak Bonds | |
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DNA--The Double Helix | |
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DNA--Creating Its Own Future | |
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How Enzymes Copy DNA | |
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Genomes | |
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DNA Repair | |
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Permanent Changes to DNA | |
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DNA to RNA: Copying Genes Into Messengers | |
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The Chicken/Egg Problem | |
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DNA Packaging | |
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Machinery--Building Smart Parts | |
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About Proteins | |
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Multiplying Small Effects | |
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Proteins Are Chains Made From Twenty Amino Acids | |
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How Orders Translate Into Assembled Boxes of Donuts | |
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How DNA Information Translates Into a Working Protein | |
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From DNA to Protein--a Multistep Process | |
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Translation | |
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DNA to RNA to Protein | |
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Key Discovery | |
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The Unity of Biology | |
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Feedback--Signaling, Sensing, Reacting | |
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Assembly Lines | |
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Circular Information | |
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Allostery--The Key To Feedback Control | |
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Why Allostery? | |
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Allostery and Molecular Communication | |
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Higher-Level Control | |
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When You Can't Get It, Make It Yourself | |
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Chemotaxis: How Chemical Signaling Creates Purposeful Movement | |
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Introducing the Adventures of a Slime Mold | |
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Feedback in Neural Circuits | |
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Cascading | |
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Ecology Loops | |
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Death on the Wing | |
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Community--E Pluribus Unum | |
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Emergence | |
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The Emergence of Higher-Level Behavior | |
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From One-Celled to Many-Celled Creatures | |
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Embryo Development--From One Cell to Many | |
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Organizing a Body | |
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Cell Signaling | |
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Organizing a Body--Part II | |
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Organizing a Body--Part III | |
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Genes as Switches | |
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Organizing a Body--Part IV | |
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How Cells Differentiate | |
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Positional Signals | |
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Cell Death | |
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Organizing a Body--Part V | |
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Roots | |
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Evolution--A Pattern for Creation | |
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Evolution of a New World View | |
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Further Evidence Supporting Natural Selection | |
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The Origins of Life | |
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A Brief History of Life | |
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Small Changes Add Up to Big Differences | |
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Big Changes Over Time: The Results of Combined Innovations | |
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Writing Poetry Evolution's Way | |
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Even a Small Advantage Tends to Survive and Multiply | |
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Multiple Changes | |
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Variation and Selection | |
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Sex | |
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Why Do It? | |
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Mutations | |
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Evolutionary Breakthroughs | |
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Mobile Information | |
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Viruses | |
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How New Species Arise | |
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Co-Evolution | |
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Can Habits Be Inherited? | |
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An Experiment in Evolution | |
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Evidence of Relatedness | |
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The Evolution of Intelligence | |
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Cultural Evolution | |
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Glossary | |
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Notes | |
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Answers | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |