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1.1 Introduction to Energy and Matter
2.1 Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
Christelle Sabatier
2.2 Covalent Bonds and Other Molecular Interactions
2.3 Water
2.4 Carbon
3.1 Synthesis of Biological Macromolecules
Melissa Hardy
3.2 Carbohydrate Structure and Function
3.3 Nucleic Acid Structure and Function
Melissa Hardy and Christelle Sabatier
3.4 Protein Structure and Function
3.5 Lipid Structure and Function
3.6 Career Connection - Dietitians and Nutritionists
Hannah Nelson and Christelle Sabatier
3.7 Chapter 3 Summary
4.1 Cell Types and Compartments
4.2 Plasma Membrane Structure and Components
4.3 Passive Membrane Transport
4.4 Active Membrane Transport
5.1 Digestive Processes in Animals
5.2 Nutrient Absorption in Animals
5.3 Celiac Disease
5.4 Nutritional Requirements of Plants
5.5 Identifying Limiting Nutrients
Dawn Hart
5.6 Nitrogen Fixers and Native Growing Practices
5.7 Career Connections - Soil Scientist
Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
OpenStaxCollege
6.3 Human Population Growth
6.1 Environmental Limits to Population Growth
6.2 Population Dynamics and Regulation
7.1 Forms of Energy
7.2 Photosynthesis - Overview
7.3 Photosynthesis - Light-Dependent Reactions
7.4 Photosynthesis - Calvin Cycle
8.1 Plant Organs and Tissues
Hannah Nelson
8.2 Roots to Shoots
8.3 Stomatal Conductance and Leaves
8.4 Impact of Environmental Change on Plant Physiology
9.1 Nutrition and Energy Production
9.2 Decoding Nutrition Labels
9.3 Measuring Metabolic Rate
9.4 Metabolism at high altitude
10.1 Glycolysis
10.2 Pyruvate Oxidation and the Citric Acid Cycle
10.3 Oxidative Phosphorylation
11.1 Introduction to Homeostasis
11.2 Impact of Temperature on Cell Function
11.3 Thermoregulation
11.4 Heat Conservation and Dissipation
1. Case Study: Lunchtime!
13.1 Overview of Information and Evolution
14.1 Overview of the Central Dogma of Information Flow
Elizabeth Dahlhoff and Melissa Hardy
14.2 The Genetic Code
Elizabeth Dahlhoff
14.3 Transcription: from gene to message
14.4 mRNA Processing
Melissa Hardy and Elizabeth Dahlhoff
14.5 Ribosomes and Protein Synthesis
14.6 Consequences of altering DNA: mutations
Hannah Nelson and Elizabeth Dahlhoff
14.7 The Endomembrane System
15.1 Introduction to classical, population and evolutionary genetics
15.2 Genes, inheritance and meiosis
15.3 Mendel’s Experiments and the Laws of Probability
15.4 Predicting phenotypes and genotypes
Lisa Bartee and Elizabeth Dahlhoff
15.5 Allelic Relationships: traits, dominance and epistasis
Elizabeth Dahlhoff and Lisa Bartee
15.6 Beyond one gene, one trait
16.1 Population Genetics
Elizabeth Dahlhoff; Erica Kosal; and Drew Davinack
16.2 Origins of Evolutionary Theory
16.3 Natural Selection
Erica Kosal and Elizabeth Dahlhoff
16.4 Evolutionary Change Outside of Natural Selection
16.5 Pace of Evolution
16.6 Evidence of Evolution
18.1 Building and using phylogenetic trees
18.2 Speciation
2. Transcriptional regulation of the lac operon
Michelle McCully
3. Causal loop diagrams
4. Protein structure & function
5. Career Connection - Structural Chemist
21.1 Signaling Molecules and Cellular Receptors
21.2 Signaling in Single-Celled Organisms
6. 21.3 Propagation of the Signal
7. 21.4 Response to the Signal
22.1 Introduction to hormones involved in glucose homeostasis
22.2 How Hormones Work
8. 22.3 Case Study: How Insulin Regulates Blood Glucose Levels
The following chapters support BIOL1A – Transformations of Energy and Matter
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