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1 online resource (xix, 526 pages) : illustrations, forms, map |
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""The Life Sciences""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""MAJOR CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""PROLOGUE""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Population Problems""; ""The Environment""; ""Health""; ""Agriculture""; ""The Academic Endeavor in the Life Sciences""; ""INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS""; ""GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES""; ""STIPENDS""; ""CURRICULA""; ""MEDICAL STUDENTS""; ""TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS""; ""POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION""; ""RESEARCH SUPPORT""; ""FEDERAL RESEARCH-SUPPORTING AGENCIES""; ""SPECIALIZED FACILITIES""; ""INSTRUMENTS""; ""COMPUTERS""; ""LABORATORIES"" |
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""Museums""""Marine Biology Stations""; ""Biological Information""; ""CHAPTER ONE FRONTIERS OF BIOLOGY""; ""THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE""; ""The Genetic Material""; ""PROTEIN SYNTHESIS""; ""THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CELL""; ""The Energy for Cell Work""; ""PHOTOSYNTHESIS""; ""Metabolism""; ""METABOLIC PATHWAYS""; ""METABOLIC CONTROLS""; ""ACTIVE TRANSPORT""; ""ENZYMES""; ""SUBCELLULAR ORGANELLES""; ""Cell Division""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF AN ORGANISM""; ""Development of the Nervous System""; ""Plant Embryogenesis""; ""Animal Viruses""; ""FORM AND FUNCTION""; ""Muscular Contraction"" |
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""THE CONSTANCY OF THE Milieu Interieur""""Endocrines""; ""PLANT AND INSECT HORMONES""; ""THE NERVOUS SYSTEM""; ""The Neuron""; ""SIGNALING IN NEURONS�THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION""; ""INITIATION OF IMPULSE ACTIVITY AT SENSE ORGANS""; ""The Central Nervous System""; ""SMALL BRAINS""; ""LARGER BRAINS""; ""INTERCALATED SYSTEMS: HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION""; ""BEHAVIOR""; ""Evolution, Inheritance, and the Development of Behavior""; ""Physiological Analysis of Behavior""; ""ORIENTATION AND HOMING""; ""Learning and Memory""; ""ECOLOGY""; ""Some Areas of Ecological Research"" |
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""ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO INDIVIDUAL ORGANISMS""""THE ABUNDANCE OF LIVING THINGS""; ""SPECIES INTERACTIONS""; ""ENERGY FLOW IN ECOSYSTEMS""; ""STABILITY AND DIVERSITY""; ""THE ORIGIN OF LIFE""; ""HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION""; ""Population Genetics�An Extension of Mendelism""; ""Cytogenetics""; ""HUMAN CYTOGENETICS""; ""Polymorphism""; ""Some Recent Accomplishments""; ""THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE""; ""What Is a Species?""; ""Origins of Species""; ""Origin of Higher Groups""; ""Extinction""; ""Diversity and the Conceptual Framework of Biology""; ""CHAPTER TWO BIOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN"" |
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""BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND MEDICAL PRACTICE""""The National Health""; ""Diagnosis, Disease, and Drugs""; ""SULFONAMIDES AND ANTIMETABOLITES""; ""ANTIBIOTICS""; ""VIRAL DISEASES""; ""CANCER THERAPY""; ""GOUT""; ""GENETIC DISEASES""; ""THE IMMUNE SYSTEM""; ""TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION""; ""CARDIAC DISORDERS""; ""Population Control""; ""The Early and Latter Years of Life""; ""ON FEEDING MAN""; ""Crop Yields""; ""GENETICS AND AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE""; ""Agricultural Practice""; ""Animal Science""; ""MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT""; ""Water Supplies""; ""Air""; ""Food and Drugs""; ""RENEWABLE RESOURCES"" |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Biology -- Research.
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Biology.
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Research.
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Biology
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Research
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biology.
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research (function)
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NATURE -- Reference.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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Research
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Biology
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Biology -- Research
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United States |
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
71606918 |
| ISBN |
030957109X |
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9780309571098 |
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