| Description |
xviii, 619 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 23 Protection, Support, and Movement -- Chapter Outline -- Protection: Integumentary Systems -- Movement and Support: Skeletal Systems -- Movement: Nonmuscular Movement and Muscular Systems -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 24 Communication I: Nervous and Sensory Systems -- Chapter Outline -- Neurons: The Basic Functional Units of the Nervous System -- Neuron Communication -- Invertebrate Nervous Systems -- Vertebrate Nervous Systems -- Sensory Reception -- Invertebrate Sensory Receptors -- Vertebrate Sensory Receptors -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 25 Communication II: The Endocrine System and Chemical Messengers -- Chapter Outline -- Chemical Messengers -- Hormones and Their Feedback Systems -- Mechanisms of Hormone Action -- Some Hormones of Invertebrates -- An Overview of the Vertebrate Endocrine System -- |
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Contents note continued: Basal Annelid Groups -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 13 The Smaller Ecdysozoan Phyla -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Phylum Nematoda (Roundworms) -- Other Ecdysozoan Phyla -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 14 The Arthropods: Blueprint for Success -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Metamerism and Tagmatization -- The Exoskeleton -- The Hemocoel -- Metamorphosis -- Subphylum Trilobitomorpha -- Subphylum Chelicerata -- Subphylum Myriapoda -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 15 The Pancrustacea: Crustacea and Hexapoda -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Subphylum Crustacea -- Wildlife Alert -- Subphylum Hexapoda -- |
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Contents note continued: Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Survey of Amphibians -- Evolutionary Pressures -- Wildlife Alert -- Amphibians in Peril -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 20 Reptiles: Diapsid Amniotes -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Survey of the Reptiles -- Wildlife Alert -- Evolutionary Pressures -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 21 Birds: Reptiles by Another Name -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Evolutionary Pressures -- Wildlife Alert -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 22 Mammals: Synapsid Amniotes -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Diversity of Mammals -- Evolutionary Pressures -- Wildlife Alert -- Human Evolution -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- |
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Contents note continued: Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 10 The Smaller Lophotrochozoan Phyla -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Platyzoa: Phylum Platyhelminthes -- Platyzoa: Smaller Phyla -- Other Lophotrochozoans -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 11 Molluscan Success -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Molluscan Characteristics -- Class Gastropoda -- Class Bivalvia -- Class Cephalopoda -- Class Polyplacophora -- Class Scaphopoda -- Class Monoplacophora -- Class Solenogastres -- Class Caudofoveata -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Wildlife Alert -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 12 Annelida: The Metameric Body Form -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Annelid Structure and Function -- Clade (Class) Errantia -- Clade (Class) Sedentaria -- |
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Contents note continued: Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 4 Evolution: History and Evidence -- Chapter Outline -- Pre-Darwinian Theories of Change -- Darwin's Early Years and His Journey -- Early Development of Darwin's Ideas of Evolution -- The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection -- Microevolution, Macroevolution, and Evidence of Macroevolutionary Change -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 5 Evolution and Gene Frequencies -- Chapter Outline -- Populations and Gene Pools -- Must Evolution Happen? -- Evolutionary Mechanisms -- Species and Speciation -- Rates of Evolution -- Molecular Evolution -- Mosaic Evolution -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 6 ecology: preserving the Animal Kingdom -- Chapter Outline -- Animals and Their Abiotic Environment -- Biotic Factors: Populations -- Biotic Factors: Interspecific Interactions -- Communities -- |
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Contents note continued: Endocrine Systems of Vertebrates Other Than Birds or Mammals -- Endocrine Systems of Birds and Mammals -- Some Hormones Are Not Produced by Endocrine Glands -- Evolution of Endocrine Systems -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 26 Circulation and Gas Exchange -- Chapter Outline -- Internal Transport and Circulatory Systems -- Transport Systems in Invertebrates -- Transport Systems in Vertebrates -- The Hearts and Circulatory Systems of Bony Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles -- The Hearts and Circulatory Systems of Birds, Crocodilians, and Mammals -- The Lymphatic System Is an Open, One-Way System -- Gas Exchange -- Vertebrate Respiratory Systems -- Human Respiratory System -- Evolution of Respiratory Pigments -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 27 Nutrition and Digestion -- Chapter Outline -- Evolution of Nutrition -- |
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Contents note continued: Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 16 Ambulacraria: Echinoderms and Hemichordates -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Phylum Echinodermata -- Phylum Hemichordata -- Wildlife Alert -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 17 Chordata: Urochordata and Cephalochordata -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Phylum Chordata -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 18 The Fishes: Vertebrate Success in Water -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Survey of Fishes -- Evolutionary Pressures -- Wildlife Alert -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 19 Amphibians: The First Terrestrial Vertebrates -- |
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Contents note continued: Prenatal Development and Birth in a Human -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions |
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Contents note continued: The Metabolic Fates of Nutrients in Heterotrophs -- Digestion -- Animal Strategies for Getting and Using Food -- Diversity in Digestive Structures: Invertebrates -- Diversity in Digestive Structures: Vertebrates -- The Mammalian Digestive System -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 28 Temperature and Body Fluid Regulation -- Chapter Outline -- Homeostasis and Temperature Regulation -- Control of Water and Solutes (Osmoregulation and Excretion) -- Invertebrate Excretory Systems -- Vertebrate Excretory Systems -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 29 Reproduction and Development -- Chapter Outline -- Asexual Reproduction in Invertebrates -- Sexual Reproduction in Invertebrates -- Sexual Reproduction in Vertebrates -- Examples of Reproduction among Various Vertebrate Classes -- The Human Male Reproductive System -- The Human Female Reproductive System -- |
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Contents note continued: Trophic Structure of Ecosystems -- Cycling within Ecosystems -- Ecological Problems -- Wildlife Alert -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 7 Animal Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Organization -- Chapter Outline -- Taxonomy and Phylogeny -- Patterns of Organization -- Higher Animal Taxonomy -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 8 Animal-Like Protists: The Protozoa -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective of the Protists -- Life within a Single Plasma Membrane -- Symbiotic Lifestyles -- Protists and Protozoan Taxonomy -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 9 Multicellular and Tissue Levels of Organization -- Chapter Outline -- Evolutionary Perspective -- Phylum Porifera -- Phylum Cnidaria -- Phylum Ctenophora -- Wildlife Alert -- Further Phylogenetic Considerations -- Summary -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Zoology: An Evolutionary and Ecological Perspective -- Chapter Outline -- Zoology: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Zoology: An Ecological Perspective -- Wildlife Alert -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 2 Cells, Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems of Animals -- Chapter Outline -- What Are Cells? -- Why Are Most Cells Small? -- Cell Membranes -- Movement Across Membranes -- Cytoplasm, Organelles, and Cellular Components -- The Nucleus: Information Center -- Levels of Organization in Various Animals -- Tissues -- Organs -- Organ Systems -- Summary -- Concept Review Questions -- Analysis and Application Questions -- ch. 3 Cell Division and Inheritance -- Chapter Outline -- Eukaryotic Chromosomes -- The Cell Cycle and Mitotic Cell Division -- Meiosis: The Basis of Sexual Reproduction -- DNA: The Genetic Material -- Inheritance Patterns in Animals -- Wildlife Alert -- Summary -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
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Previous edition: 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Zoology.
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| Author |
Harley, John P.
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| LC no. |
2015008555 |
| ISBN |
0077837274 (alk. paper) |
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9780077837273 (alk. paper) |
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