Biology category: 3817 books
by Sibel Yildirim
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells are mature cells that have been genetically reprogrammed so that they return to their embryonic state. It is not yet known if iPS stem cells and embryonic stem cells differ significantly. Today many fundamental belief systems in biology are shifting towards accepting...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Over the past decade, significant advances in the fields of stem cell biology, bioengineering, and animal models have converged on the discipline of regenerative medicine. Significant progress has been made leading from pre-clinical studies through phase 3 clinical trials for some therapies. This...
Biotechnology
A Laboratory Course
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1996
The objectives of this Second Edition of Biotechnology: A Laboratory Course remain unchanged: to create a text that consists of a series of laboratory exercises that integrate molecular biology with protein biochemistry techniques while providing a continuum of experiments. The course begins with basic...
A New History of Life
The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all--or so we think. A New History of Life offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how life on our planet evolved--the first major new synthesis for general readers in two decades.
Charles...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
The Medical Series: The Effectiveness of Medical Treatments Having trouble on Medical Biology? Need to find out information about the various types of medical treatments and how effective they are in curing humans?. This book contains the six different medical treatments. This is an excellent book...
Parrots
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Have you ever wondered what parrots eat in the wild? Or why so many species live in the Amazon? How intelligent are parrots? What is the world’s rarest parrot? Parrots: The Animal Answer Guide provides detailed, factual answers to the ninety questions most on our minds.
There are more than...
Sharks
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide), and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to skates and rays, and their critical role...
Not So Different
Finding Human Nature in Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational...
Porcupines
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the Animal Answer Guide series, we learn about these mysterious animals' "pincushion defense," along with the following facts:
• Porcupines survive...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
The Body System Series: The Respiratory System and Its Functions Having trouble on Biology? Need to find out information about the organ systems and how they work?. This book on the Respiratory System will help you to understand and learn about the respiratory organs followed by their functions....
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories
Evolutionary Enigmas
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovulation...
Natural Selections
Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“Barash . . . brilliantly integrat[es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A delightful read.”—Michael Shermer, author of The Science of Good and Evil
“Entertaining and thought-provoking.”—Steven...
Plants of Oceanic Islands
Evolution, Biogeography, and Conservation of the Flora of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Bringing together results from over 30 years of research on the Juan Fernández Archipelago off the coast of Chile, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the plants of these special islands. Despite its remote setting in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the Juan Fernández Archipelago is in many...
by Mars Q
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Sons of Monkeys explores the controversial paradigm of multiple human species interacting in the past, present, and future. For the first time, it gives human history a working ecological model to explain the existence of such phenomena as war, genocide, and chronic poverty. This is NOT a revisit...