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General Zoology / Continuity and Evolution of Animal Life
Continuity and Evolution of Animal Life
- Principles of Genetics:A Review
- Mendel’s Investigations
- Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
- Meiosis: Reduction Division of Gametes
- Sex Determination
- Mendelian Laws of Inheritance
- Mendel’s First Law
- Mendel’s Second Law
- Sex-Linked Inheritance
- Autosomal Linkage and Crossing Over
- Chromosomal Aberrations
- Gene Theory
- Storage and Transfer of Genetic Information
- Nucleic Acids: Molecular Basis of Inheritance
- DNA Coding by Base Sequence
- Transcription and the Role of Messenger RNA
- Translation: Final Stage in Information Transfer
- Regulation of Gene Expression
- Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes
- Molecular Genetics
- Recombinant DNA
- Genomics
- Sources of Phenotypic Variation
- Gene Mutations
- Frequency of Mutations
- Molecular Systematics
- Molecular Genetics of Cancer
- Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes
- References
- Organic Evolution
- Origins of Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- Evolutionary Theory Pre-Darwinian Evolutionary Ideas
- Lamarckism: The First Scientific Explanation of Evolution
- Charles Lyell and Uniformitarianism
- Darwin’s Great Voyage of Discovery
- Darwinian Evolutionary Theory: The Evidence
- Perpetual Change
- Interpreting the Fossil Record
- Common Descent
- Homology and Phylogenetic Reconstruction
- Ontogeny, Phylogeny, and Recapitulation
- Multiplication of Species
- Allopatric Speciation
- Nonallopatric Speciation
- Adaptive Radiation
- Gradualism
- Natural Selection
- Revisions of Darwin’s Theory
- Neo-Darwinism
- Microevolution: Genetic Variation and Change within Species
- Genetic Equilibrium
- Genetic Drift
- Measuring Genetic Variation within Populations
- Protein Polymorphism
- Quantitative Variation
- Macroevolution: Major Evolutionary Events
- Speciation and Extinction through Geological Time
- Mass Extinctions
- References
- The Reproductive Process
- Nature of the Reproductive Process
- Asexual Reproduction: Reproduction without Gametes
- Sexual Reproduction: Reproduction with Gametes
- Bisexual Reproduction
- Hermaphroditism
- Parthenogenesis
- Why Do So Many Animals Reproduce Sexually Rather Than Asexually?
- The Origin and Maturation of Germ Cells
- Migration of Germ Cells
- Sex Determination
- Gametogenesis
- Oogenesis
- Reproductive Patterns
- Plan of Reproductive Systems
- Invertebrate Reproductive Systems
- Vertebrate Reproductive Systems
- Endocrine Events That Orchestrate Reproduction
- Hormonal Control of Timing of Reproductive Cycles
- Gonadal Steroids and Their Control
- The Menstrual Cycle
- Hormones of Human Pregnancy and Birth
- Multiple Births
- References
- Principles of Development
- Early Concepts: Preformation Versus Epigenesis
- Fertilization
- Oocyte Maturation
- Fertilization and Activation
- Contact and Recognition between Egg and Sperm
- Prevention of Polyspermy
- Fusion of Pronuclei and Egg Activation
- Cleavage and Early Development
- Patterns of Cleavage
- How Amount and Distribution of Yolk Affect Cleavage
- Blastulation
- Gastrulation and the Formation of Germ Layers
- Formation of the Coelom
- Mechanisms of Development
- Nuclear Equivalence
- Cytoplasmic Specification
- Embryonic Induction
- Gene Expression during Development
- The Homeotic Genes
- Vertebrate Development
- The Common Vertebrate Heritage
- Amniotes and the Amniotic Egg
- The Mammalian Placenta and Early Mammalian Development
- Development of Systems and Organs
- Derivatives of Ectoderm: Nervous System and Nerve Growth
- Derivatives of Endoderm: Digestive Tube and Survival of Gill Arches
- Derivatives of Mesoderm: Support, Movement, and Beating Heart
- References
