The Cell: A Very Short Introduction

by Graham Cowling and Terence Allen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199578753
• ISBN13: 9780199578757
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"