A dramatic introduction to the patterns, processes and interrelationships of life. -- This wonderfully insightful series explores the patterns of life and the processes and relationships that characterize all ecosystems. Covers: -- * The on-going cycle of producer-consumer-decomposer -- * How the architecture of life rises out of cells -- * The byzantian Machine we call the human body -- * The structure of DNA -- * Major ecological types -- * How scientists make sense of the overwhelming diversity of life -- *Symbiosis and mimicry, predator and prey, biome and habitat -- Features 3D animation of cell structure, diffusion and osmosis, how traits are passed down from generation to generation, and more. |