Description
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.
Author: Terence Allen, Graham Cowling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780199578757
ISBN10: 0199578753
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Cell Biology
- Science | Life Sciences | Microbiology
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.
Author: Terence Allen, Graham Cowling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780199578757
ISBN10: 0199578753
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Cell Biology
- Science | Life Sciences | Microbiology
About the Author
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.