Cell
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
237 pages
978-1-61530-386-1 (ISBN)
Description
A single cell can be a self-sustaining organism or one of trillions in a larger life form. Though visible only with the help of a microscope, cells are highly structured entities that perform a myriad of functions in every living thing and store critical
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 The Nature, Function, and Evolution of Cells
- EUKARYOTES AND PROKARYOTES
- THE ORGANIZATION OF CELLS
- THE MOLECULES OF CELLS
- THE STRUCTURE OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES
- COUPLED CHEMICAL REACTIONS
- THE GENETIC INFORMATION OF CELLS
- DNA: THE GENETIC MATERIAL
- RNA: REPLICATED FROM DNA
- CELLS AND TISSUES
- ANIMAL TISSUES
- PLANT TISSUES
- THE EVOLUTION OF CELLS
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENETIC INFORMATION
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF METABOLISM
- EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF MITOCHONDRIA AND CHLOROPLASTS
- CHAPTER 2 Cell Membranes and Cell Walls
- THE CELL MEMBRANE
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND MEMBRANE STRUCTURE
- TRANSPORT ACROSS THE MEMBRANE
- THE CELL WALLS OF PLANTS
- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WALL LAYERS
- COMPONENTS OF THE CELL WALL
- CHAPTER 3 Cellular Organelles
- INTERNAL MEMBRANES
- GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANELLE MEMBRANES
- THE NUCLEUS
- DNA PACKAGING IN THE NUCLEUS
- NUCLEOSOMES: THE SUBUNITS OF CHROMATIN
- ORGANIZATION OF CHROMATIN FIBRE
- THE NUCLEAR ENVELOPE
- GENETIC ORGANIZATION OF THE NUCLEUS
- MITOCHONDRIA AND CHLOROPLASTS
- MITOCHONDRIAL AND CHLOROPLASTIC STRUCTURE
- METABOLIC FUNCTIONS
- MITOCHONDRIA: ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND CHEMIOSMOTIC THEORY
- CHLOROPLASTS: TRAPPING LIGHT AND FIXATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE
- OTHER ORGANELLES AND THEIR MEMBRANES
- ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM
- GOLGI APPARATUS
- SECRETORY VESICLES
- LYSOSOMES
- MICROBODIES AND PEROXISOMES
- VACUOLES
- CHAPTER 4 The Cell Matrix and Mechanisms of Cell Communication
- THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX
- MATRIX POLYSACCHARIDES
- MATRIX PROTEINS
- CELL-MATRIX INTERACTIONS
- THE CYTOSKELETON
- ACTIN FILAMENTS
- MICROTUBULES
- INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS
- INTERCELLULAR RECOGNITION AND CELL ADHESION
- TISSUE AND SPECIES RECOGNITION
- CELL JUNCTIONS
- COMMUNICATION VIA CHEMICAL SIGNALING
- TYPES OF CHEMICAL SIGNALING
- SIGNAL RECEPTORS
- INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANT CELLS
- CHAPTER 5 Cell Division, Growth, and Differentiation
- DUPLICATION OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL
- CELL DIVISION
- MITOSIS AND CYTOKINESIS
- MEIOSIS
- THE CELL DIVISION CYCLE
- CONTROLLED PROLIFERATION
- FAILURE OF PROLIFERATION CONTROL
- CELL DIFFERENTIATION
- THE DIFFERENTIATED STATE
- THE ROLE OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS
- THE PROCESS OF DIFFERENTIATION
- ERRORS IN DIFFERENTIATION
- MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH
- NECROSIS
- APOPTOSIS
- CHAPTER 6 The Study of Cells
- THE HISTORY OF CELL THEORY
- EARLY OBSERVATIONS
- THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN OF CELLS
- THE PROTOPLASM CONCEPT
- CONTRIBUTION OF OTHER SCIENCES
- CELL AND TISSUE CULTURE
- THE PRESERVATION OF CELLS
- CELLS IN MEDICINE
- TISSUE ENGINEERING
- STEM CELLS
- CONCLUSION
- HISTORY OF CELL THEORY
- NATURE AND FUNCTION OF CELLS
- SPECIAL FUNCTIONS OF CELLS
- STRUCTURE OF CELLS
- PLANT CELLS
- MEMBRANE CHANNELS
- Index
- BACK COVER
