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The Cell: A Very Short Introduction

The Cell: A Very Short Introduction

Allen, Terence
Cowling, Graham

Paperback

Series: Very Short Introductions

Biology

Publisher Price: $12.99

ISBN10: 0199578753
ISBN13: 9780199578757
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
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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