本书是高等院校生物学专业英语基础教材，是编者结合多年教学实践并参考大量国内外英文生物学教科书的基础上编写而成的。全书共分8个单元，分别为生物学简介、细胞的结构与功能、遗传学、生命的起源与生物多样性、植物学、动物的结构与功能、生态学、科技英语写作范例。
本书可供农（林）学、医学、师范类高等院校及综合性大学生物类专业的学生、教师以及相关研究人员使用和参考。

1 Introduction of Bilolgy
1.1 SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTHIC METHOD
1.2 THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY
2 Cell Stucture and Function
2.1 THE CELL THEORY
2.2 MTTOSIS:THE CELL COPYING PROCESS
2.3 MEIOSIS AND GAMETE FORMATION
3 Geneties
3.1 CLASSIC GENETICS
3.2 MOLECULAR GENETICS
4 The Origin of Life and Biodiversity
4.1 ORICIN OF LIFE ON EARTH
4.2 THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
4.3 THE ROLE OF NATURAL SELECTION IN EVOLUTION
4.4 THE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
4.5 THE BIODIVERSITY
5 Plant Biology
5.1 PLANT AND THEIR STRUCTUREⅠ
5.2 PLANT AND THEIR STRUCTUREⅡ
5.3 FLOWERINC PLANT REPRODUCTION
5.4 BILOGICAL DIVERSITY:NONVASCULAR PLANTS AND NONSEED VASCULAR PLANIS
5.5 LATN HORMONES
5.6 PLANT NUTRITION,AND TRANSPORT
5.7 PHOTOSYNTHESIS
6 Animal Structure and Function
7 Ecology
8 How to Write a Scientific Paper
Vocabulary Index