DESCRIPTION:
Designed for use in shorter introductory cellular biology courses, The Cell presents current comprehensive science in a readable and cohesive text. The sixth edition retains the overall organization, themes, and special features that made the previous edition so popular, but has been updated throughout to reflect major advances in the field.
The book will be supported by a companion website, which offers a wealth of study and review material as well as rich multimedia resources including: quizzes, animations of key concepts and processes, chapter summaries, interactive micrographs and a collection of video microscopy showing biological processes in action.
CONTENTS:
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. An Overview of Cells and Cell Research
2. The Composition of Cells
3. Cell Metabolism
4. Fundamentals of Molecular Biology
PART II: THE FLOW OF GENETIC INFORMATION
5. The Organization and Sequences of Cellular Genomes
6. Replication, Maintenance and Rearrangements of Genomic DNA
7. RNA Synthesis and Processing
8. Protein Synthesis, Processing, and Regulation
PART III: CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
9. The Nucleus
10. Protein Sorting and Transport: The Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, and Lysosomes
11. Bioenergetics and Metabolism: Mitochondria, Chloroplasts, and Peroxisomes
12. The Cytoskeleton and Cell Movement
13. The Plasma Membrane
14. Cell Walls, the Extracellular Matrix, and Cell Interactions
PART IV: CELL REGULATION
15. Cell Signaling
16. The Cell Cycle
17. Cell Death and Cell Renewal
18. Cancer
