Cell Biology

Contents

Keratin in epithelial cells

• Glossary and Guide
  1. Glossary Alphabetically
  2. Glossary By Lesson
  3. How to edit this book

Beginning Cell Biology

• Introduction
  1. Introduction to Cell Biology
  2. What is living?
  3. What is a cell?
  4. Size of cells
  5. The Great Ancestor
  6. Cells Under Microscopes
  7. Chemical elements necessary for life

• Types of cells
  1. Prokaryotes
     1. Bacteria
     2. Archaea
  2. Eukaryotes

• Preliminary Glimpse at Organelles
  1. Nucleus
  2. Mitochondria
  3. Chloroplasts
  4. Membranes
  5. Other Organelles
  6. Unique Properties of Plant Cells

• Preliminary Glimpse at Cytoskeleton
  1. Actin filaments
  2. Intermediate filaments
  3. Microtubules

• Models for Cell Biology Research
  1. How do we know how cells function
  2. Escherichia coli
  3. Yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisae)
  4. Worms (Caenorhabditis elegans)
  5. Flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
  6. Mice
  7. Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
  8. Human

• Cell division
  1. Cell cycle
  2. Meiosis
  3. Mitosis
  4. Cell Mass and Growth Rate
• Genes
  1. Expression
  2. Translation

Resources

• Cell biology article at wikipedia
• Cell biology category at wikipedia
• Cooper textbook The Cell (online)
• Lodish textbook Molecular Cell Biology (online)
• Alberts textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell (online)
• CellsAlive animations
• The History of Cell Biology
• Inside the cell - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• UCMP glossary
• Landmark Papers in Cell Biology Gall JG, McIntosh JR, eds. (online in The American Society for Cell Biology's Image & Video Library)
• Biology Internet Library - has a cellular biology section.

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