The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
by Allen, Terence and Cowling, Graham
Series: Very Short Introductions Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: 145 Pages 17x11 cm | PB ISBN:9780199578757.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes Index and Illustrations.
All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell, with no nucleus. 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. Each cell is anastonishingly complex chemical factory, the activities of which we have only begun to unravel in the past fifty years or so
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