A Civic Biology
by George W. Hunter
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hunter, George W. (George William), 1873-1948
- Title
- A Civic Biology, Presented in Problems
- Credits
- Produced by Mark C. Orton, Carol Ann Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Sanitation
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39969
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39969
- Release Date
- June 11, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A CIVIC BIOLOGY — Presented in Problems — FOREWORD TO TEACHERS — CONTENTS
- 2.A CIVIC BIOLOGY — I. THE GENERAL PROBLEM—SOME REASONS FOR THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY — II. THE ENVIRONMENT OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS — III. THE INTERRELATIONS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS — IV. THE FUNCTIONS AND COMPOSITION OF LIVING THINGS — V. PLANT GROWTH AND NUTRITION. CAUSES OF GROWTH — VI. THE ORGANS OF NUTRITION IN PLANTS—THE SOIL AND ITS RELATION TO THE ROOTS — VII. PLANT GROWTH AND NUTRITION—PLANTS MAKE FOOD — VIII. PLANT GROWTH AND NUTRITION—THE CIRCULATION AND FINAL USES OF FOOD BY PLANTS — IX. OUR FORESTS, THEIR USES AND THE NECESSITY FOR THEIR PROTECTION — X. THE ECONOMIC RELATION OF GREEN PLANTS TO MAN — XI. PLANTS WITHOUT CHLOROPHYLL IN THEIR RELATION TO MAN — XII. THE RELATIONS OF PLANTS TO ANIMALS — XIII. SINGLE-CELLED ANIMALS CONSIDERED AS ORGANISMS — XIV. DIVISION OF LABOR. THE VARIOUS FORMS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS — XV. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF ANIMALS — XVI. THE FISH AND FROG, AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY OF VERTEBRATES — XVII. HEREDITY, VARIATION, PLANT AND ANIMAL BREEDING — XVIII. THE HUMAN MACHINE AND ITS NEEDS — XIX. FOODS AND DIETARIES — XX. DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION — XXI. THE BLOOD AND ITS CIRCULATION — XXII. RESPIRATION AND EXCRETION — XXIII. BODY CONTROL AND HABIT FORMATION — XXIV. MAN'S IMPROVEMENT OF HIS ENVIRONMENT — XXV. SOME GREAT NAMES IN BIOLOGY — APPENDIX — WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND TEMPERATURES — INDEX — Transcriber's Notes:
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