The Biology of Campbell & Reece and their collaborators is a general biology textbook in the highly competitive international market, with long-standing international recognition, scientific validity, and impact, particularly in American and European universities.

It combines modern biological knowledge with an effort for active learning on the part of the reader. The edition is aimed at students of biological sciences, as well as any other field of natural sciences – physics, chemistry, applied mathematics and computer science, geology, agriculture, biochemistry, etc.

This volume is titled Biology – Form and Function in Animals and constitutes the standalone edition of Unit 7 of the comprehensive Biology of Campbell & Reece. It aims to meet the current needs of the Greek academic community for more concise and targeted teaching manuals, while remaining a major "reference book" for this specific field.