TY - BOOK AU - Gerking,Shelby Delos TI - Biological systems U1 - 574 PY - 1969/// CY - Philadelphia PB - W. B. Saunders KW - Biology N1 - the elementary unit of life: the cell; multiplication by division; basic chemistry of the cell; the plasma membrane; classification; bacteria and viruses; the stem, the root and the leaf; photosynthesis; life from the soil; life from water; the heart and the blood; the fate of food materials; exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide; cellular bioenergetics; waste disposal; nervous coordination; chemical coordination; animal reproduction and development; plant reproduction and development; inheritance; molecular genetics; ecology; species emerging ER -