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Introduction
1.1 Major Groups of Living Organisms
1.2 Levels of Biological Organization
1.3 Properties of Life
2.1 Scientific Inquiry
3.1 Darwin and Natural Selection
3.2 Variation and Adaptation
3.3 Adaptive Evolution
3.4 Evidence for Evolution
4.1 The Composition of Organisms
4.2 The Structure of Atoms
4.3 Covalent Bonds
4.4 Non-covalent bonds
5.1 Water is Polar
5.2 Water's Interactions with Other Molecules
5.3 Other Properties of Water
5.4 pH, Acids, and Bases
6.1 Hydrocarbons
6.2 Functional Groups
6.3 Synthesis of Biological Macromolecules
7.1 Protein Function
7.2 Amino Acids
7.3 Protein Structure
7.4 Protein Folding, Regulation, and Denaturation
8.1 Metabolic Pathways
8.2 Enzyme Function
8.3 Enzyme Activity
8.4 Feedback Inhibition of Metabolic Pathways
9.1 Lipids
9.2 The Plasma Membrane
9.3 The Endomembrane System
10.1 Passive Transport
10.2 Osmosis
10.3 Active Transport
10.4 Bulk Transport
11.1 Ligands and Receptors
11.2 Types of Cell Signaling
11.3 Signal Transduction
11.4 Response to the Signal and Termination
12.1 Functions of Nucleic Acids
12.2 DNA Structure
12.3 Organization of DNA in the cell
12.4 DNA Replication
13.1 The Central Dogma
13.2 Prokaryotic Transcription
13.3 Eukaryotic Transcription
13.4 mRNA Processing
14.1 The Genetic Code
14.2 The Protein Synthesis Machinery
14.3 The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis
15.1 Variation and Evolution
15.2 Causes of Mutation
15.3 Types of Mutation
16.1 Cell Division and Genomic DNA
16.2 The Cell Cycle
16.3 Mitosis and Cytokinesis
16.4 The Cytoskeleton
17.1 Cell Cycle Checkpoints
17.2 Regulator Molecules of the Cell Cycle
17.3 Cancer
17.4 Cancer and the Cell Cycle
18.1 Sexual Reproduction
18.2 Life Cycles of Sexually Reproducing Organisms
18.3 Meiosis
18.4 Nondisjunction
19.1 Foundations of Modern Genetics
19.2 Segregation
19.3 Punnett Squares and Laws of Probability
19.4 Independent Assortment
20.1 Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, and Multiple Alleles
20.2 Sex-linked traits
20.3 Pedigree Analysis
20.4 Polygenic Inheritance and Epistasis
21.1 Metabolism
21.2 The Laws of Thermodynamics
21.3 Energy
21.4 The ATP cycle
22.1 The Energy Transformations that Sustain Life
22.2 Chemiosmosis and ATP Synthase
22.3 Electron Transport Chains
22.4 Electron Transport Chains in Respiration and Photosynthesis
23.1 Overview of Cellular Respiration
23.2 Glycolysis
23.3 Pyruvate Oxidation and the Citric Acid Cycle
24.1 Overview of Photosynthesis
24.2 Light Energy
24.3 The Light-Dependent Reactions
24.4 The Calvin Cycle
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