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Introduction to Cells | p. 1 |
Light and electron microscopy | p. 8 |
Cells: the principal features of animal, plant, and bacterial cells | p. 25 |
How We Know: Life's common mechanisms | p. 30 |
Chemical Components of Cells | p. 39 |
How We Know: What are macromolecules? | p. 60 |
Chemical bonds and groups | p. 66 |
The chemical properties of water | p. 68 |
An outline of some of the types of sugars | p. 70 |
Fatty acids and other lipids | p. 72 |
The 20 amino acids found in proteins | p. 74 |
A survey of the nucleotides | p. 76 |
The principal types of weak noncovalent bonds | p. 78 |
Energy, Catalysis, and Biosynthesis | p. 83 |
Free energy and biological reactions | p. 96 |
How We Know: Using kinetics to model and manipulate metabolic pathways | p. 103 |
Protein Structure and Function | p. 119 |
A few examples of some general protein functions | p. 120 |
How We Know: Probing protein structure | p. 129 |
Four different ways of depicting a small protein | p. 132 |
Cell breakage and initial fractionation of cell extracts | p. 160 |
Protein separation by chromatography | p. 162 |
Protein separation by electrophoresis | p. 163 |
Making and using antibodies | p. 164 |
DNA and Chromosomes | p. 169 |
How We Know: Genes are made of DNA | p. 172 |
DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination | p. 195 |
How We Know: Finding replication origins | p. 198 |
From DNA to Protein: How Cells Read the Genome | p. 229 |
How We Know: Cracking the genetic code | p. 246 |
Control of Gene Expression | p. 267 |
How We Know: Gene regulation--the story of eve | p. 282 |
How Genes and Genomes Evolve | p. 293 |
How We Know: Counting genes | p. 314 |
Manipulating Genes and Cells | p. 323 |
How We Know: Sequencing the human genome | p. 334 |
Membrane Structure | p. 365 |
How We Know: Measuring membrane flow | p. 384 |
Membrane Transport | p. 389 |
How We Know: Squid reveal secrets of membrane excitability | p. 414 |
How Cells Obtain Energy from Food | p. 427 |
Details of the 10 steps of glycolysis | p. 432 |
How We Know: Unraveling the citric acid cycle | p. 442 |
The complete citric acid cycle | p. 450 |
Energy Generation in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts | p. 453 |
How We Know: How chemiosmotic coupling drives ATP synthesis | p. 460 |
Redox potentials | p. 471 |
Intracellular Compartments and Transport | p. 497 |
How We Know: Tracking protein and vesicle transport | p. 520 |
Cell Communication | p. 533 |
How We Know: Untangling cell signaling pathways | p. 561 |
Cytoskeleton | p. 573 |
How We Know: Pursuing motor proteins | p. 586 |
Cell-Cycle Control and Cell Death | p. 611 |
How We Know: Discovery of cyclins and Cdks | p. 618 |
Cell Division | p. 637 |
The principal stages of M phase in an animal cell | p. 642 |
How We Know: Building the mitotic spindle | p. 646 |
Genetics, Meiosis, and the Molecular Basis of Heredity | p. 659 |
How We Know: Reading genetic linkage maps | p. 682 |
Some essentials of classical genetics | p. 685 |
Tissues and Cancer | p. 697 |
The cell types and tissues from which higher plants are constructed | p. 700 |
How We Know: Making sense of the genes that are critical for cancer | p. 734 |
Answers to Questions | p. A:1 |
Glossary | p. G:1 |
Index | p. I:1 |
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