Hutchinson Trends in Science: Biology -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Overview: biology in the 20th century -- The unravelling of genetics -- New science of genetic engineering -- Advances in human genetics -- Birth of biochemistry and cell biology -- Developmental biology -- Ecology and animal behaviour -- The environment -- evolution and human origins -- Extinction and the discovery of new species -- How life on Earth began -- 'Genomic Era' -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Arber, Werner (1929- ) -- Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955) -- Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941) -- Beadle, George Wells (1903-1989) -- Berg, Paul (1926- ) -- Best, Charles H(erbert) (1899-1978) -- Bodmer, Walter Fred (1936- ) -- Brenner, Sydney (1927- ) -- Brown, Michael Stuart (1941- ) -- Calvin, Melvin (1911-1997) -- Carson, Rachel Louise (1907-1964) -- Cohen, Stanley (1922- ) -- Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916-2004) -- Dawkins, (Clinton) Richard (1941- ) -- Delbrück, Max (1906-1981) -- Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1900-1975) -- adopted name of Feodosy Grigorevich Dobrzhansky -- Elion, Gertrude Belle (1918-1999) -- Elton, Charles Sutherland (1900-1991) -- Evans, Alice Catherine (1881-1975) -- Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962) -- Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) -- Fossey, Dian (1932-1985) -- Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (1920-1958) -- Frisch, Karl von (1886-1982) -- Goodall, Jane (1934- ) -- Baroness van Lawick-Goodall -- Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002) -- Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892-1964) -- Hamilton, William D(onald) (1936-2000) -- Hershey, Alfred Day (1908-1997) -- Hyman, Libbie Henrietta (1888-1969) -- Jacob, François (1920- ) -- Jeffreys, Alec John (1950- ) -- Khorana, Har Gobind (1922- ) -- Krebs, Hans Adolf (1900-1981) -- Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903-1972) -- Leakey, Mary Douglas (1913-1996) -- born Mary Douglas Nicol.

Lederberg, Joshua (1925- ) -- Lewontin, Richard C(harles) (1929- ) -- Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903-1989) -- Luria, Salvador Edward (1912-1991) -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (1898-1976) -- Margulis, Lynn Alexander (1938- ) -- Maynard Smith, John (1920-2004) -- Mayr, Ernst Walter (1904-2005) -- Milstein, César (1927-2002) -- Monod, Jacques Lucien (1910-1976) -- Montagnier, Luc (1932- ) -- Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866-1945) -- Mullis, Kary Banks (1944- ) -- how DNA is copied -- life -- Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane (1942- ) -- Rothschild, Miriam (1908-2005) -- Sanger, Frederick (1918- ) -- Schaller, George B(eals) (1933- ) -- Sturtevant, Alfred Henry (1891-1970) -- mutant fruit flies -- determining the gene order -- Tatum, Edward Lawrie (1909-1975) -- Tinbergen, Niko(laas) (1907-1988) -- Watson, David Meredith Seares (1886-1973) -- Watson, James Dewey (1928- ) -- Whipple, George Hoyt (1878-1976) -- Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004) -- Wilson, Edward Osborne (1929- ) -- Wright, Sewall (1889-1988) -- Web sites -- Access Excellence -- AIDS Virtual Library -- Amino Acids -- Animal Diversity Web -- Animal Info - Information on Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Animals -- ARKive -- Bacteria in Sickness and in Health -- Bacterial Evolution: Score one for Punk Eek -- Bad Bug Book - Salmonella -- Biological Control -- Biology for Kids -- Biology Timeline -- Biomass -- BodyQuest: The Nervous System -- Body Systems and Homeostasis -- Bugs in the News! -- Cells Alive -- Cellular Organization -- Center for Biodiversity: Study of Plants and Animals -- Circulatory System: Online Learning -- Classification of Living Things -- Cytogenetics Gallery -- Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy -- Desert Plant Survival -- Designer Genes -- Dinofish.com -- DNA From The Beginning -- Dr Frankenstein, I presume? -- Dr James D Watson Profile -- Dr NAD's Mini-Course.

Endangered Species -- Endangered Species Home Page -- Environmental Organization Web Directory -- Evolution Theory and Science -- Eye -- From Reactor to Refrigerator -- Fungi -- GCSE Biology -- GCSE Bitesize Revision - Biology -- Gene CRC -- Gene School -- Genetic Technology -- Gertrude B Elion Profile -- Hello Dolly -- Hidden Killers -- Homeostasis -- Human Anatomy Online -- Human Genome Project Information -- Immunology -- Integration and Control: How Nervous Systems Work -- Interactive Mitosis Tutorial -- International Federation of Organic Farming Movements -- Introduction to Evolutionary Biology -- Introduction to Photosynthesis and its Applications -- Introduction to Proteins -- Journey into Phylogenetic Systematics -- Kingdom Monera: The Prokaryotes -- Life in Extreme Environments -- Live A Life Page -- Major Biomes of the World -- Microbe Zoo -- Mitosis and Meiosis -- Molecular Expressions: The DNA Collection -- Molecular Expressions: The Vitamin Collection -- Molecular Expressions: The Amino Acid Collection -- Mystery of Smell -- Natural History of Genetics -- Nervous System -- Odyssey of Life -- Plants and their Structure -- Question of Genes: Inherited Risks -- Rachel Carson Homestead -- Reference Guide for Vitamins -- Secret Sense in the Human Nose? -- Structure of the Human Respiratory System -- Tree of Life -- Virtual Body -- Virtual Cell -- Virtual Cell -- Visible Embryo -- Visible Human Project -- What the Heck is an E. coli? -- Willow Biomass for Energy -- Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research -- Glossary -- abiotic factor -- abzyme -- acclimation -- or acclimatization -- acetyl coenzyme A -- or acetyl CoA -- acid rain -- effects of acid rain -- acid rain -- acquired character -- adaptation -- (Latin adaptare 'to fit to') -- results of adaptation -- adaptive radiation -- ADP -- adrenal gland.

or suprarenal gland -- 1. Adrenal androgens -- 2. Mineralocorticoids -- 3. Glucocorticoids -- adrenaline -- or epinephrine -- aerobic -- aestivation -- aggression -- agonist -- allele -- allometry -- alloparental care -- altruism -- amino acid -- amino acid -- amylase -- anabolism -- anaerobic -- analogous -- animal -- or metazoan -- (Latin anima 'breath', 'life') -- feeding types -- movement -- circulation -- excretion -- nervous system -- colour and camouflage -- animal behaviour -- anoxia -- or hypoxia -- antenna -- anterior -- antibody -- antigen -- apoptosis -- or cell suicide -- aposematic coloration -- Archaea -- singular archaeon -- formerly archaebacteria -- arthropod -- artificial selection -- ascorbic acid -- or vitamin C -- C6H8O6 -- asexual reproduction -- asexual reproduction -- asexual reproduction -- assimilation -- assortative mating -- ATP -- abbreviation for adenosine triphosphate -- autolysis -- autoradiography -- autosome -- autotroph -- auxin -- bacillus -- backcross -- bacteria -- singular bacterium -- origin of antibiotics -- antiseptics and disinfectants -- role in food manufacture and industry -- structure -- classification -- environment -- interaction between bacteria -- prehistoric bacteria -- bacteriophage -- balance of nature -- base pair -- B cell -- or B lymphocyte -- B cell -- bicarbonate indicator -- binary fission -- binomial system of nomenclature -- biochemical oxygen demand -- BOD -- biochemistry -- biodegradable -- biodiversity -- contraction of biological diversity -- loss of biodiversity -- the Rio Summit -- marine protection areas -- bioengineering -- biogenesis -- biogeography -- biological clock -- biological control -- biology -- (Greek bios 'life', logos 'discourse') -- origins -- developments -- evolution and genetics -- applying chemical principles -- putting the cell together again -- biology, applied.

bioluminescence -- biomass -- biome -- biometry -- biophysics -- biorhythm -- biosensor -- biosphere -- biosynthesis -- biotechnology -- fermentation -- micro-organisms and food production -- other uses -- legislation -- biotic factor -- bivalent -- blastomere -- blastula -- blood -- smoking -- blood as a heat regulator -- chemistry of blood -- artificial blood -- blood -- blood group -- botany -- (Greek botane 'herb') -- history -- classification -- brain -- reflexes -- solvent abuse -- brain -- breeding -- calyx -- carbon cycle -- carbon cycle -- carbon dioxide -- CO2 -- chemistry of carbon dioxide -- respiration -- the carbon cycle and the 'greenhouse effect' -- carcinogen -- carnivore -- carrying capacity -- catabolism -- catalyst -- catalyst -- cell -- eukaryotic cells -- prokaryotic cells -- cell composition -- cell function -- cell reproduction -- cell death -- cell theory -- cell studies -- cell -- cell structure -- cell -- cell differentiation -- cell division -- cell membrane -- or plasma membrane -- central dogma -- central nervous system -- CNS -- central nervous system -- centriole -- centromere -- centrosome -- chemosynthesis -- chemotaxis -- chemotropism -- chimera -- or chimaera -- chlorophyll -- chordate -- chromosome -- artificial chromosomes -- DNA sequencing -- chromosome -- chromosome -- cilia -- singular cilium -- circulatory system -- the human circulatory system -- heart -- blood vessels -- blood -- functions of the system -- waste disposal -- temperature control -- disease and disorders -- circulatory system -- circulatory system -- cistron -- CITES -- acronym for Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species -- cladistics -- class -- classification -- classification -- climax community -- clone -- cloning worldwide -- human cloning -- clone -- clone -- coccus -- plural cocci -- codominance -- codon.

or coding triplet.