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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Key biological terms are defined in a way that all readers can understand in this book that explains the essential concepts of life processes and how living and nonliving things relate to each other. The basics of feeding, respiration, waste, and reproduction, among other important activities that sustain living things, are explained in clear, simple language, with colorful photographs to illustrate them. Non-living things are defined and described,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world-from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses-the harder they find it is to locate life's edge"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Josephine: a spirited and curious girl, a big sister, and a human being. She's also a mammal, an animal, and a living thing--all identities she explores with readers in this simple informational picture book. Josephine presents her family (and herself) as examples of human beings, and then familiar creatures like her dog and her mom (and herself) as mammals. Next, she adds whales, lobsters, hummingbirds, and elephants (and herself) as examples...
Author
Series
Life trilogy volume 2
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Living Planet, the second book in David Attenborough's ground-breaking Life trilogy, explores the intricacies of how life lives on Earth. With his characteristic blend of curiosity and enthusiasm, he explores the rich variety of life on Earth, focusing on the interdependency of living organisms that allows them to exist, thrive and replicate
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tracing humankind back to its origins, this book introduces Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and explains various states of development and how we grew into the people we are today. Beginning with DNA and how cells operate, shows how plants, humans, and animals are all connected
11) We go way back
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Death is a comprehensive examination of that universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes of death, and examines the human perceptions of death throughout history and across cultures."--P. [4] of cover
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works-the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more-have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far...
15) What plants need
Author
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Living things, including plants need water, food and food to live and grow. Includes science and reading activities, a note to caregivers, and a word list"--
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