Chapter 1: Can Science Cure the Common Cold? Introduction to the Scientific Method

Unit One: Chemistry and Cells

Chapter 2: Science Fiction, Bad Science, and Pseudoscience: Water, Biochemistry, and Cells

Chapter 3: Is it Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Health? Nutrients and Membrane Transport

Chapter 4:  Body Weight and Health: Enzymes, Metabolism, and Cellular Respiration

Chapter 5: Life in the Greenhouse: Photosynthesis and Climate Change

Unit Two: Genetics

Chapter 6: Cancer: DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis

Chapter 7: Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics

Chapter 8: DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Profiling

Chapter 9: Genetically Modified Organisms: Gene Expression, Mutation, Stem Cells, and Cloning

Unit Three: Evolution

Chapter 10: Where Did We Come From? The Evidence for Evolution

Chapter 11:  An Evolving Enemy: Natural Selection

Chapter 12: Who Am I? Species and Races

Chapter 13: The Greatest Species on Earth? Biodiversity and Classification

Unit Four: Ecology

Chapter 14: Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology

Chapter 15: Conserving Biodiversity: Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Chapter 16: Where Do You Live? Climate and Biomes

Unit Five: Animal Structure and Function

Chapter 17: Organ Donation: Tissues and Organs

Chapter 18: Binge Drinking: The Digestive and Urinary Systems

Chapter 19:  Clearing the Air: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems

Chapter 20: Vaccination: Protection and Prevention or Peril? Immune System, Bacteria, Viruses, and Other Pathogens

Chapter 21: Human Sex Differences: Endocrine, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems

Chapter 22: Is There Something in the Water? Reproductive and Developmental Biology

Chapter 23: Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Brain Drain? Brain Structure and Function

Unit Six: Plant Biology

Chapter 24: Feeding the World: Plant Structure and Growth

Chapter 25: Growing a Green Thumb: Plant Physiology