Biology ISE

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the National Research Council. Dr. George B. Johnson is a researcher, educator, and author. Born in 1942 in Virginia, he went to college in New Hampshire (Dartmouth), attended graduate school in California (Stanford), and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught freshman biology and genetics to undergraduates for over 35 years. Also Professor of Genetics at Washington University’s School of Medicine, Dr. Johnson is a student of population genetics and evolution, authoring more than 50 scientific journal publications. His laboratory work is renowned for pioneering the study of previously undisclosed genetic variability. His field research has centered on alpine butterflies and flowers, much of it carried out in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. Other ecosystems he has explored in recent years include Brazilian and Costa Rican rain forests, the Florida Everglades, the seacoast of Maine, coral reefs off Belize, the ice fields and mountains of Patagonia, and, delightfully, vineyards in Tuscany.A prolific writer and educator, Dr. Johnson is the author of seven nationally recognized college texts for McGraw-Hill, including the hugely successful majors texts Biology (with botanist Peter Raven) and three nonmajors’ texts: Understanding Biology, Essentials of The Living World, and  The Living World. He has also authored two widely used high school biology textbooks, Holt Biology and Biology: Visualizing Life. In the 30 years he has been authoring biology texts, over 3 million students have been taught from textbooks Dr. Johnson has written Kenneth A. Mason received his undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Washington, worked at UC Berkeley, then pursued his PhD in Genetics at UC Davis. He has taught Gentics, Microbial Genetics, Microbiology, Advanced Molecular Genetics, Introductory Biology, and a Genetics Laboratory that he designed. Jonathan Losos is a Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Losos's research has focused on studying patterns of adaptive ratiation and evolutionary diversification in lizards. The recipient of several awards including hte prestigious Theodosius Dobzhansky and David Starr Jordan Prizes for outstanding young evolutionary biologists, Losos has published more than 100 scientific articles. Tod Duncan is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. He currently teaches firstsemester general biology and coordinates first and second semester general biology laboratories. Previously,he taught general microbiology, virology, the biology of cancer, medical microbiology, and cell biology. Abachelor’s degree in cell biology with an emphasis on plant molecular and cellular biology from the Universityof East Anglia in England led to doctoral studies in cell cycle control, and postdoctoral research on themolecular and biochemical mechanisms of DNA alkylation damage in vitro and in Drosophila melanogaster.Currently, he is interested in factors affecting retention and success of incoming first-year students in diversedemographics. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his two Great Danes, Eddie and Henry

• Part I The Molecular Basis of Life1 The Science of Biology2 The Nature of Molecules and the Properties of Water3 The Chemical Building Blocks of LifePart II Biology of the Cell 4 Cell Structure5 Membranes6 Energy and Metabolism7 How Cells Harvest Energy8 Photosynthesis9 Cell Communication10 How Cells DividePart III Genetic and Molecular Biology 11 Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis12 Patterns of Inheritance13The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance, and Human Genetics14 DNA: The Genetic Material15 Genes and How They Work16 Control of Gene Expression17 Biotechnology18 Genomics19 Cellular Mechanisms of DevelopmentPart IV Evolution 20 Genes Within Populations21 The Evidence for Evolution22 The Origin of Species23 Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Comparative Biology24 Genome EvolutionPart V Diversity of Life on Earth 25 Origin and Diversity of Life26 Viruses27 Prokaryotes28 Protists29 Seedless Plants30 Seed Plants31 Fungi32 Animal Diversity & the Evolution of Body Plans33 Protostomes34 DeuterostomesPart VI Plant Form and Function 35 Plant Form36 Transport in Plants37 Plant Nutrition and Soils38 Plant Defense Responses39 Plant Sensory Systems40 Plant ReproductionPart VII Animal Form and Function 41 The Animal Body and Principles of Regulation42 The Nervous System43 Sensory Systems44 The Endocrine System45 The Musculoskeletal System46 The Digestive System47 The Respiratory System48 The Circulatory System49 Osmotic Regulation and the Urinary System50 The Immune System51 The Reproductive Systems52 Animal DevelopmentPart VIII Ecology and Behavior 53 Behavioral Biology54 Ecology of Individuals and Populations55 Community Ecology56 Dynamics of Ecosystems57 The Biosphere and Human Impacts58 Conservation Biology