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Introduction
1. The Nature of Science
2. Hypothesis Testing
3. Types of Data
4. Basic and Applied Science
5. Reporting Scientific Work
6. Properties of Life
7. Levels of Organization of Living Things
8. The Diversity of Life
9. Atoms
10. Chemical Bonds
11. Water
12. Buffers, pH, Acids, and Bases
13. Absolutely Necessary Chemistry Summary
14. Carbohydrates
15. Lipids
16. Proteins
17. Nucleic Acids
18. How Cells Are Studied
19. Comparing Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
20. The Plasma Membrane and the Cytoplasm
21. Ribosomes
22. The Cytoskeleton
23. Flagella and Cilia
24. The Endomembrane System
25. Nucleus
26. The Endoplasmic Reticulum
27. The Golgi Apparatus
28. Vesicles and Vacuoles, Lysosomes, and Peroxisomes
29. Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
30. Extracellular matrix and intercellular junctions
31. Summary Table of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells and Functions
32. The Production of a Protein
33. The Plasma Membrane
34. Membranes are Selectively Permeable
35. Passive Transport: Diffusion
36. Passive Transport: Facilitated Transport
37. Passive Transport: Osmosis
38. Active Transport
39. Highlight: Creating the Action Potential - Facilitated Diffusion and Active Transport
40. A Summary of Cell Communication
41. Types of Receptors
42. Types of signaling molecules
43. Propagation of the signal
44. Response to the signal
45. Energy
46. Metabolic Pathways
47. Free Energy and Activation Energy
48. Enzymes
49. Feedback Inhibition in Metabolic Pathways
50. Enzymes and Disease
51. From Mouth to Molecule: Digestion
52. Metabolism
53. An Overview of Cellular Respiration
54. Glycolysis
55. The Citric Acid Cycle
56. Oxidative Phosphorylation
57. Metabolism without Oxygen: Fermentation
58. Metabolism of Molecules Other Than Glucose
59. Anaerobic Cellular Respiration in Prokaryotes
60. The Energy Cycle
61. DNA Structure
62. Genes Direct the Production of Proteins
63. Transcription: from DNA to RNA
64. Eukaryotic RNA Processing
65. Translation: From RNA to Protein
66. The Genetic Code
67. Prokaryotic versus Eukaryotic Gene Expression
68. Eukaryotic Epigenetic Regulation
69. Regulation During Protein Synthesis
70. How DNA is arranged in a cell
71. DNA Replication
72. DNA Repair
73. Binary Fission: Prokaryotic Cell Division
74. Mitosis: Eukaryotic Cell Division
75. Control of the Cell Cycle
76. Cancer and the Cell Cycle
77. Overview of Meiosis
78. Meiosis I
79. Meiosis II
80. Comparing Meiosis and Mitosis
81. Errors in Meiosis
82. Review of Protein Synthesis
83. How Mutations Occur
84. Genetic disorders
85. Do all gene mutations affect health and development?
86. Types of mutations
87. Changes in number of genes or chromosomes
88. Multifactorial Disorders and Genetic Predispositions
89. Genetics and statistics
90. Introduction to Genetics
91. Pedigrees and Punnett Squares
92. Black fur color: a dominant trait
93. Yellow fur color: a recessive trait
94. Epistasis: the relationship between black, brown, and yellow fur
95. Brindle color: partial dominance and epistasis
96. Incomplete dominance: when traits blend
97. White spotting: When there's more than two alleles
98. Hemophilia: a sex-linked disorder
99. Overall phenotypes: putting it all together
100. Additional complexity
101. It's not all in the genes
102. Manipulating Genetic Material
103. Cloning
104. Genetic Engineering
105. Biotechnology in Medicine and Agriculture
106. Genomics and Proteomics
107. Applying Genomics
108. Proteomics
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MHCC Biology 112: Biology for Health Professions by Lisa Bartee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.