本书是作者根据多年的专业英语教学经验和积累的大量相关资料，经系统整理、修订而完成的。全书共分13个单元：科技英语的概念及写作特点，细胞结构和原生质的特性，生物化学，植物学及植物生理，遗传与进化，人类解剖及生理，微生物，动物行为，食品、营养与健康，分子生物学及转基因学，生物技术，基因组学和蛋白组学、生物信息学基础。每单元选择代表性短文1～7篇以上，共50篇短文。短文中的专业词汇及疑难句子结构都编了号，便于在随后的“Notes”部分查阅。专业词汇都给出了国际音标注音和主要中文释义。

UNIT 01 THE CONCEPT AND CHARACTERISTICS

     OF SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH

  Essay 01 The Concept of English for Science and Technology

  Essay 02 Must We Write?

UNIT 02 FEATURES OF CELLS AND PROTOPLASM

  Essay 03 An Introduction to Cells

  Essay 04 Major Structural Features of Eukaryotic Cells

  Essay 05 Colloids:Characteristic Components of Protoplasm

       of All Cells

UNIT 03 BIOCHEMISTRY

  Essay 06 Cells and Tissues Used in Biochemical Studies

  Essay 07 The a Helix Is a Common Protein Secondary

       Structure

  Essay 08 DNA Is a Double Helix

  Essay 09 Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle

  Essay 10 Blood Substitute

UNIT 04  BOTANY AND PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

  Essay 11 Stomatal Anatomy

  Essay 12 The Paradox of Pores

  Essay 13 Osmosis

  Essay 14 Principles of Photosynthetic Energy Transformation

  Essay 15 Desert Plant Survival

UNIT 05 GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

  Essay 16 Mendel's Genetic Laws

  Essay 17 What Is a Genetic Map?

  Essay 18 Biological Evolution

UNIT 06 HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

  Essay 19 The Human Brain

  Essay 20 Diagnosis: Female

UNIT 07  MICROBES

  Essay 21  Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Its Uses in Plant

        Breeding

  Essay 22 Bacillus thuringiensis and Its Uses

  Essay 23 Some Facts About E. coli

UNIT 08 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

  Essay 24 The Elephant

  Essay 25 Living Together

  Essay 26 Crazy Owners Make for Crazy Pets

  Essay 27 Fish and Sound

  Essay 28 Animals' Uses of Crying and Begging

  Essay 29 Frog Calls

  Essay 30 Dolphins

UNIT 09 FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH

  Essay 31 Food

  Essay 32 Vitamins

  Essay 33 Foods That Fight Cancer

UNIT 10 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSGENIOS

  Essay 34 The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), the Basics

  Essay 35 Methods of Plant Gene Transfer

  Essay 36 Genes and Money -- Paternity Test

  Essay 37 Gene Gun Speeds Search for New Orchid Colors

  Essay 38 Patenting Gene Sequences: Not in the Best Inter-

       ests of Science or Society

UNIT 11 BIOTECHNOLOGY

  Essay 39 Plant Tissue Culture

  Essay 40 Cloning Techniques

  Essay 41  How to Clone a Herd?

  Essay 42 Clones: As many Twins As You Like!

  Essay 43 Stem Cells and Their Uses

  Essay 44 What If My Test-tube Babies Were Swapped in the

       Lab?

UNIT 12 GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS

  Essay 45 Genomics

  Essay 46 Rice Genome Work Creates Hope

  Essay 4 7 Scientists Crack Gene Code of Rice

  Essay 48 Grains of Hope

  Essay 49 Proteomics

UNIT 13 Bioinformatics

  Essay 50 Bioinformatics，the Basics

附录1 生物专业英语常见词素

附录2 生物专业英语常见词缀