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Achieving Science Literacy On Standards and Diversity Developing a Scientific Fact Stories about Life The Biology of Life	Better Life by Design? Invasive Species Science and Intelligent Design The Synthetic Cell Illusion Microbes and Diseases	Images of Biological Molecules What is Metabolism? All about Cell Membranes How Drugs are Discovered Of Nutrition and Food
Quotables "I had experienced the Ionian Enchantment. That recently coined expression I borrow from the physicist and historian Gerald Holton. It means a belief in the unity of the sciences - a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws." (Edward O. Wilson in "Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge.", Vintage, 1998')
Where does Life Come From? Complexity in Biology The Mind-Body Connection What is a Gene? Is Biology a Statistical Science?		Genetically Modified Food? Stem Cell Research What is Cloning? Man & Machine & AI Bioethics
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Intended for the Advancement of Public Understanding of the Biological Sciences

What is Life presents conceptual thinking in biology. While many current issues in biology are based on simple ideas, the elucidation of biological mechanisms that explain diverse aspects of life is challenging because cells and organisms are complex systems. To understand how biologists study the structure and function of living organisms one has to understand the relationship between experiment and theory. Such an understanding amounts to scientific literacy.

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