e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Choice Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Allen, Terence D. (Terence David), 1944-
Subjects
Cells.
Cytology.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Allen, Terence D. (Terence David), 1944-
by title:
The cell : a very sh...
by call number:
571.6 A431c
Search the Web
Allen, Terence D. (Terence David), 1944-
Cells.
Cytology.
MARC Display
The
cell
: a
very
short
introduction
/ Terence Allen and Graham Cowling.
by
Allen, Terence D. (Terence David), 1944-
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Call #:
571.6 A431c
Subjects
Cells.
Cytology.
Series
Very
short
introductions 285.
ISBN:
9780199578757 (pbk.)
0199578753 (pbk.)
Description:
145 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index.
Contents:
The nature of cells -- The structure of cells -- The nucleus -- The life of cells -- What cells can do -- Stem cells -- Cellular therapy -- The future of
cell
research.
Summary:
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 an astonishingly complex chemical factory, the activities of which we have only begun to unravel in the past fifty years or so through modern techniques of microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology. In this
Very
Short
Introduction
, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling describe the nature of cells - their basic structure, their varying forms, their division, their differentiation from initially highly flexible stem cells, their signalling, and programmed death. Cells are the basic constituent of life, and understanding cells and how they work is central to all biology and medicine. -- Product Decription from Website.
Other authors:
Cowling, Graham.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
571.6 A431c
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
571.6 A431c
Core Collection - Adult
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.