The Cell: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Allen, Terence; Cowling, Graham J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199578753 ISBN 13: 9780199578757

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In this Very Short Introduction, Terrence Allen and Graham Cowling offer an illuminating account of the nature of cells--their basic structure, forms, division, signaling, and programmed death. Allen and Cowling start with the simple "prokaryotic" cell--cells with no nucleus--and show how the bodies of more complex plants and animals consist of billions of "eukaryotic" cells, of varying kinds, adapted to fill different roles--red blood cells, muscle cells, branched neurons. The authors also show that each cell is an astonishingly complex chemical factory, the activities of which we have only begun to unravel in the past fifty years.

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Terence Allen does research in Cell Structure and Function at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital Manchester. Graham Cowling has been director and teacher at the Medical School, University of Manchester.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199578753
• ISBN 13: 9780199578757
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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