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Tables of Contents for Life Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
UNIT 1 Life
2
120
Exploring Life
4
26
Living Things
6
4
Where does life come from?
10
4
What is science?
14
10
Activity 1-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Using Scientific Methods
18
6
Science and Society---Issue: Technology and the Dairy Industry
24
6
The Structure of Viruses and Cells
30
32
Viruses
32
6
Science and Society---Technology: AIDS Vaccine?
38
2
Cells: The Units of Life
40
5
Cell Organization
45
17
Activity 2-1/Comparing Plant and Animal Cells
53
3
Activity 2-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Observing the Parts of an Organism
56
6
Cell Processes
62
28
Chemistry of Living Things
64
7
Cell Transport
71
7
Activity 3-1/Observing Osmosis
77
1
Energy in Cells
78
6
Activity 3-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Photosynthesis and Respiration
82
2
Science and Society---Technology: Energy from Biomass
84
6
Cell Reproduction
90
30
Cell Growth and Division
92
7
Activity 4-1/Mitosis in Plant and Animal Cells
96
3
Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis
99
5
DNA
104
8
Activity 4-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Making a Model of DNA
110
2
Science and Society---Technology: Using Transplanted Cells to Treat Diabetes
112
8
Unit 1 Project In Search of Cells
118
2
UNIT 2 Heredity and Evolution
120
64
Heredity
122
28
What is genetics?
124
8
Activity 5-1/Expected and Observed Results
131
1
Genetics Since Mendel
132
5
Activity 5-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Determining Polygenic Inheritance
134
3
Human Genetics
137
7
Science and Society---Technology: The Human Genome Project
144
6
Evolution
150
34
Mechanisms of Evolution
152
10
Activity 6-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Recognizing Variation in a Population
158
4
Evidence for Evolution
162
9
Activity 6-2/A Radioactive Dating Model
167
4
Primate Evolution
171
5
Science and Society---Issue: Extinction and Evolution
176
8
Unit 2 Project Keep Those Toes A-Tapping!
182
2
UNIT 3 Diversity of Life
184
72
Classifying Living Things
186
22
What is classification?
188
5
Activity 7-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Classifying Seeds
190
3
Modern Classification
193
5
Science and Society---Issue: Diminishing Diversity
198
2
Identifying Organisms
200
8
Activity 7-2/Using a Dichotomous Key
204
4
Monerans
208
20
Kingdom Monera
210
6
Activity 8-1/Observing Cyanobacteria
215
1
Monerans in Your Life
216
6
Activity 8-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Where are the most bacteria found?
220
2
Science and Society---Issue: Fighting Tuberculosis
222
6
Protists and Fungi
228
28
Kingdom Protista
230
11
Activity 9-1/Comparing Algae and Protozoans
240
1
Kingdom Fungi
241
7
Activity 9-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Investigating Lichens
246
2
Science and Society---Technology: Monitoring Red Tides
248
8
Unit 3 Project Don't Toss It! Compost It!
254
2
UNIT 4 Plants
256
84
Introduction to Plants
258
26
Characteristics of Plants
260
7
Seedless Plants
267
11
Activity 10-1/Design Your Own Experiment: The Effects of Acid Rain
272
6
Science and Society---Technology: Cleaner Coal
278
6
Activity 10-2/Comparing Mosses, Liverworts, and Ferns
280
4
The Seed Plants
284
28
Seed Plants
286
6
Parts of Complex Plants
292
4
Seed Plant Reproduction
296
10
Activity 11-1/Comparing Flowers and Seeds
300
4
Activity 11-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Germination Rate of Seeds
304
2
Science and Society---Issue: Medical Treasures
306
6
Plant Processes
312
28
Photosynthesis and Respiration
314
10
Activity 12-1/Stomata in Leaves
316
8
Plant Responses
324
7
Activity 12-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Plant Tropisms
328
3
Science and Society---Technology: Transgenic Crops
331
9
Unit 4 Project Homes Built from Plants
338
2
UNIT 5 Animals
340
138
Introduction to Animals
342
26
What is an animal?
344
4
Science and Society---Issue: Animal Experimentation
348
2
Sponges and Cnidarians
350
7
Activity 13-1/Observing a Cnidarian
354
3
Flatoworms and Roundworms
357
11
Activity 13-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Comparing Free-Living and Parasitic Worms
360
8
Mollusks, Worms, Arthropods, and Echinoderms
368
30
Mollusks
370
5
Segmented Worms
375
7
Activity 14-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Earthworms and Plant Growth
378
4
Arthropods
382
8
Activity 14-2/Observing a Crayfish
389
1
Science and Society---Issue: Pesticides and Insects
390
2
Echinoderms
392
6
Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
398
26
Fish
400
9
Activity 15-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Water Temperature and the Respiration Rate of Fish
406
3
Amphibians
409
5
Activity 15-2/Metamorphosis in Frogs
413
1
Science and Society---Technology: Amphibians and Ultraviolet Light
414
2
Reptiles
416
8
Birds and Mammals
424
28
Birds
426
9
Activity 16-1/Observing Contour and Down Feathers
429
6
Mammals
435
11
Activity 16-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Whale Insulation
438
8
Science and Society---Issue: California Sea Otters
446
6
Animal Behavior
452
26
Types of Behavior
454
8
Activity 17-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Investigating Conditioning
460
2
Behavioral Adaptations
462
8
Science and Society---Issue: Zoos and Captive Breeding
470
8
Activity 17-2/Observing Social Behavior in Ants
472
4
Unit 5 Project Was it a reptile? Was it a bird? Was it really warm?
476
2
UNIT 6 Ecology
478
92
Life and the Environment
480
28
The Living Environment and the Nonliving Environment
482
6
Activity 18-1/Soil Composition
485
3
Interactions Among Living Organisms
488
8
Activity 18-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Identifying a Limiting Factor
490
6
Matter and Energy
496
6
Science and Society---Issue: Bringing Back the Wolves
502
6
Ecosystems
508
30
How Ecosystems Change
510
6
Activity 19-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Observing Succession
514
2
Land Environments
516
12
Activity 19-2/Studying a Land Environment
519
9
Science and Society---Issue: Protecting Antarctica
528
2
Water Environments
530
8
Resources and the Environment
538
32
Natural Resources
540
8
Science and Society---Technology: Recycling
548
2
Conservation and Wildlife Protection
550
7
Activity 20-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Investigating Biodegradable Substances
552
5
Maintaining a Healthy Environment
557
13
Activity 20-2/Modeling the Greenhouse Effect
561
7
Unit 6 Project Ecology on the Internet
568
2
UNIT 7 The Human Body
570
195
Bones, Muscles, and Skin
572
26
The Skeletal System
574
8
Activity 21-1/Design Your Own Experiment: Observing Bones
580
2
Science and Society---Technology: Biomaterial---Speeding Bone Fracture Recovery
582
2
The Muscular System
584
7
Activity 21-2/Observing Muscle
589
2
Skin
591
7
Nutrients and Digestion
598
26
Nutrition
600
10
Activity 22-1/Identifying Vitamin C Content
609
1
Science and Society---Technology: Nutrients Combat Cancer
610
2
Your Digestive System
612
12
Activity 22-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Protein Digestion
618
6
The Circulatory System
624
26
Circulation
626
8
Activity 23-1/Taking Blood Pressure
633
1
Science and Society---Technology: ``Growing'' Heart Valves
634
2
Blood
636
8
Activity 23-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Comparing Blood Cells
642
2
Your Lymphatic System
644
6
Respiration and Excretion
650
26
Your Respiratory System
652
12
Activity 24-1/Design Your Own Experiment: The Effects of Exercise on Respiration
662
2
Science and Society---Issue: Restricting Cigarette Advertising
664
2
Your Urinary System
666
10
Activity 24-2/Sweat Glands in the Skin
672
4
The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
676
26
Your Nervous System
678
8
Activity 25-1/Reaction Time
685
1
Science and Society---Issue: Care and Treatment of Alzheimer's Patients
686
2
The Senses
688
7
Activity 25-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Investigating Skin Sensitivity
692
3
Your Endocrine System
695
7
Reproduction and Growth
702
26
Human Reproduction
704
6
Activity 26-1/Interpreting Diagrams
709
1
Fertilization to Birth
710
6
Development After Birth
716
6
Activity 26-2/Average Growth Rate in Humans
721
1
Science and Society---Technology: A New View of the Old
722
6
Immunity
728
37
Disease
730
7
Activity 27-1/Microorganisms and Disease
736
1
Your Immune System
737
7
Activity 27-2/Design Your Own Experiment: Stopping Growth of Microorganisms
742
2
Science and Society---Issue: Should a harmful virus be destroyed?
744
2
Noncommunicable Disease
746
10
Unit 7 Project On Your Mark! Get Set! Go
754
2
Appendices
Appendix A Care and Use of a Microscope
756
1
Appendix B SI/Metric to English Conversions
757
1
Appendix C Safety in the Classroom
758
2
Safety Symbols
759
1
Appendix D Classification
760
5
Skill Handbook
765
20
Glossary
785
14
Spanish Glossary
799
16
Index
815