Cell BiologyTwenty-First Century Books, 2007 M04 3 - 80 páginas This book tells the story of how the field of cell biology developed. Cell biology is the study of all cells?from chicken eggs and human neurons to paramecia and cells that make up a rose petal. Scientists began with primitive microscopes and, step by step, figured out the many functions of this basic unit of life. |
Contenido
Colossal Cells | 4 |
The Magic of Microscopes | 10 |
A Closer Look at Plant Cells | 19 |
The Cell Theory Takes Shape | 28 |
Inside the Nucleus | 35 |
Outside the Nucleus | 49 |
The Cell at Work | 60 |
Glossary | 66 |
Biographies | 71 |
Source Notes | 75 |
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading | 76 |
Websites | 77 |
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Photo Acknowledgments | 80 |
Back Cover | 82 |
Timeline | 69 |
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Albert Claude animal cells animal tissue Antoni van Leeuwenhoek bacteria basic units biologists blood cells body cells Boveri called cell biology cell division cell functioning cell membrane cell theory cell’s chemical chloroplasts Christian de Duve chromo chromosomes compound microscope contain continued to study cytoplasm developed discovered discovery ecule electron microscope energy Eukaryotes Francis Crick François-Vincent Raspail gametes genes German scientist Golgi apparatus hereditary material ideas important inside the cell Leeuwenhoek's microscopes lens lenses light microscopes living look Lysosomes magnify objects Malpighi meiosis Mendel’s Miescher mitochondria mitosis molecules muscle cells named Nobel Prize nucleotide nucleus nutrients observed organelles organisms Palade photosynthesis plant cells plant leaves plants and animals Porter produce proteins protists Robert Hooke role Rudolf Virchow Ruska sample scien specimen sperm cell spontaneous stain structure of DNA study cells techniques Theodor Schwann tiny tists Treviranus University vacuoles Virchow Walther Flemming Watson and Crick Weismann