Key to the Diversity and History of Life

by Alexey Shipunov

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This book is for any biology student who wants to know the subject better. This text concentrates on the history of life, diversity of plants, protists and animals, and some other general aspects including elements of biogeography.

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Publisher
Minot State University
Subjects
Biology, Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Licence
Public domain, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: The Really Short History of Life
  7. 1.1: Origin of Life
  8. 1.2: Prokaryotic World
  9. 1.3: The Rise of Nonskeletal Fauna
  10. 1.4: Filling Marine Ecosystems
  11. 1.5: First Life on Land
  12. 1.6: Coal and Mud Forests
  13. 1.7: Pangea and Great Extinction
  14. 1.8: Renovation of the Terrestrial Life
  15. 1.9: Jurassic Park- World of Reptiles
  16. 1.10: The Rise of Contemporary Ecosystems
  17. 1.11: Last Great Glaciation
  18. 2: Diversity of Life
  19. 2.1: Diversity maps
  20. 2.2: Illustrations
  21. 3: Life Stories
  22. 3.1: Foundations of Science
  23. 3.2: Few Drops of Geology
  24. 3.3: Chemistry of Life
  25. 3.4: Very Basic Features of Life
  26. 3.5: How to Be the Cell
  27. 3.6: Overview of the Cell
  28. 3.7: Ecological Interactions- Two-Species Model
  29. 3.8: How to become an animal
  30. 3.9: How to be an animal
  31. 3.10: Animalia- body plans, phyla and classes
  32. 3.11: Peas and flies- basics of inheritance
  33. 3.11.1: Syngamy and meiosis
  34. 3.11.2: Male and female
  35. 3.11.3: Mendel’s theory, explanations and corrections
  36. 3.11.4: Anaphase I and recombinants
  37. 3.12: Plant stories
  38. 3.12.1: Plants and plants
  39. 3.12.2: Life cycles
  40. 3.12.3: Three phyla of plants
  41. 4: Geography of Life
  42. 4.1: Ideal continent and real continents
  43. 4.2: Architectural Models of Tropical Trees- Illustrated Key
  44. Back Matter
  45. Index
  46. Glossary
  47. Glossary
  48. Detailed Licensing