THE BIOLOGY BOOK
Last Universal Common Ancestor
Plant Defenses against Herbivores
Aristotle’s The History of Animals
Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica
Mechanical Philosophy of Descartes
Refuting Spontaneous Generation
Leeuwenhoek’s Microscopic World
Linnaean Classification of Species
Artificial Selection (Selective Breeding)
Population Growth and Food Supply
Germ-Layer Theory of Development
Darwin and the Voyages of the Beagle
Nitrogen Cycle and Plant Chemistry
Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death)
The Liver and Glucose Metabolism
Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
Localization of Cerebral Function
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Malaria-Causing Protozoan Parasite
Ovaries and Female Reproduction
Thyroid Gland and Metamorphosis
Mitochondria and Cellular Respiration
Osmoregulation in Freshwater and Marine Fish
Factors Affecting Population Growth
Coelacanth: “The Living Fossil”
One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis
Biological Species Concept and Reproductive Isolation
DNA as Carrier of Genetic Information
Amino Acid Sequence of Insulin
Acquired Immunological Tolerance and Organ Transplantation
Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction
Protein Structures and Folding
Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
Cracking the Genetic Code for Protein Biosynthesis
Operon Model of Gene Regulation
Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics
Parental Investment and Sexual Selection
Can Living Organisms Be Patented?
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Deepwater Horizon (BP) Oil Spill