UNIT 01 THE CONCEPT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH 1
Essay 01 The Concept of English for Science and Technology 1
Essay 02 Must We Write? 3
UNIT 02 FEATURES OF CELLS AND PROTOPLASM 7
Essay 03 An Introduction to Cells 7
Essay 04 Major Structural Features of Eukaryotic Cells 9
Essay 05 Colloids:Characteristic Components of Protoplasm of AllCells 18
UNIT 03 BIOCHEMISTRY 20
Essay 06 Cells and Tissues Used in Biochemical Studies 20
Essay 07 The α Helix Is a Common Protein Secondary Structure 22
Essay 08 DNA Is a Double Helix 25
Essay 09 Reactions of the Citric AcidCycle 27
Essay 10 Blood Substitute 30
UNIT 04 BOTANY AND PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 35
Essay 11 Stomatal Anatomy 35
Essay 12 The Paradox of Pores 36
Essay 13 Osmosis 38
Essay 14 Principles of Photosynthetic Energy Transformation 40
Essay 15 Desert Plant Survival 44
UNIT 05 GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 48
Essay 16 Mendel's Genetic Laws 48
Essay 17 What Is a Genetic Map? 51
Essay 18 Biological Evolution 53
UNIT 06 HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 57
Essay 19 The Human Brain 57
Essay 20 Diagnosis:Female 58
UNIT 07 MICROBES 64
Essay 21 Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Its Uses in Plant Breeding 64
Essay 22 Bacillus thuringiensis and Its Uses 67
Essay 23 Some Facts About E.coli 72
UNIT 08 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR 75
Essay 24 The Elephant 75
Essay 25Living Together 77
Essay 26 Crazy Owners Make for Crazy Pets 78
Essay 27 Fish and Sound 79
Essay 28 Animals' Uses of Crying and Begging 82
Essay 29 Frog Calls 83
Essay 30 Dolphins 86
UNIT 09 FOOD,NUTRITION AND HEALTH 91
Essay 31 Food 91
Essay 32 Vitamins 93
Essay 33 Foods That Fight Cancer 95
UNIT 10 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSGENICS 97
Essay 34 The Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR),the Basics 97
Essay 35 Methods of Plant Gene Transfer 99
Essay 36 Genes and Money—Paternity Test 100
Essay 37 Gene Gun Speeds Search for New Orchid Colors 102
Essay 38 Patenting Gene Sequences:Not in the Best Inter-ests of Science or Society 103
UNIT 11 BIOTECHNOLOGY 107
Essay 39 Plant Tissue Culture 107
Essay 40 Cloning Techniques 111
Essay 41 How to Clone a Herd? 113
Essay 42 Clones:As many Twins As You Like! 114
Essay 43 Stem Cells and Their Uses 115
Essay 44 What If My Test-tube Babies Were Swapped in the Lab? 120
UNIT 12 GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS 122
Essay 45 Genomics 122
Essay 46 Rice Genome Work Creates Hope 124
Essay 47 Scientists Crack Gene Code of Rice 126
Essay 48 Grains of Hope 127
Essay 49 Proteomics 133
UNIT 13 Bioinformatics 136
Essay 50 Bioinformatics,the Basics 136
附录1 生物专业英语常见词素 145
附录2 生物专业英语常见词缀 149