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Cell Biology

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This is a copy of the cell biology textbook (http://www.cbc.umn.edu/~mwd/cell_www/index.html) started by Mark Dalton on the University of Minnesota (http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/indexsys.shtml) website. Reference it there and help start porting it over here. Note: The Course is licensed under the GNU FDL license.[1] (http://www.cbc.umn.edu:80/~mwd/cell_www/about_course.html)

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Contents

• Introduction
  1. Size of cells
  2. What is a cell?
  3. What is the difference between elements?
  4. What is living?
  5. What is interesting about cell biology?
• Types of cells
  1. Prokaryotes
     1. Bacteria
  2. Eukaryotes
     1. Unique Properties of Plant Cells
• Parts of the cell
  1. Membranes
  2. Organelles
  3. Genetic material
  4. Energy supply (chloroplasts and mitochondria)
• Cell division
  1. Cell cycle
  2. Meiosis
  3. Mitosis
• Genes
  1. Expression
  2. Translation

Resources

• Wikipedia: Cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28biology%29) | Cell biology article at wikipedia | Cell biology category at wikipedia
• Wikiversity:Cell_Biology online course.
• Cooper textbook (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=cooper.TOC&depth=2) The Cell (online)
• Lodish textbook (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=mcb.TOC) Molecular Cell Biology (online)
• Alberts textbook (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=cell.TOC&depth=2) Molecular Biology of the Cell (online)
• CellsAlive animations (http://www.cellsalive.com/toc.htm)
• The History of Cell Biology (http://actomyosin.narod.ru/history/history.htm)
• UCMP glossary (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss4cell.html)

Cell biology:Authors

Cell Biology | Introduction | Types of cells | Parts of the cell | Cell division | Gene expression and translation