General Biology: A Textbook for College Students

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An attempt has been made to develop a dynamic textbook, based on living things and giving a fundamental understanding of structure and function. Such a treatment emphasizes not the machine and its functions, but rather the plant and the animal as working machines, thus enabling the student to form a mental picture of the organism as a whole. To this end we have endeavored to present a continued story throughout, using the functional aspects of organisms to give unity and continuity. In other words, the facts concerning living organisms, both plant and animal, are strung on the functional thread, thus presenting life phenomena as expressed in the activities of plants and animals.