BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Nature, Function, and Evolution of Cells -- EUKARYOTES AND PROKARYOTES -- THE ORGANIZATION OF CELLS -- THE MOLECULES OF CELLS -- THE STRUCTURE OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES -- COUPLED CHEMICAL REACTIONS -- THE GENETIC INFORMATION OF CELLS -- DNA: THE GENETIC MATERIAL -- RNA: REPLICATED FROM DNA -- CELLS AND TISSUES -- ANIMAL TISSUES -- PLANT TISSUES -- THE EVOLUTION OF CELLS -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENETIC INFORMATION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF METABOLISM -- EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF MITOCHONDRIA AND CHLOROPLASTS -- CHAPTER 2 Cell Membranes and Cell Walls -- THE CELL MEMBRANE -- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND MEMBRANE STRUCTURE -- TRANSPORT ACROSS THE MEMBRANE -- THE CELL WALLS OF PLANTS -- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WALL LAYERS -- COMPONENTS OF THE CELL WALL -- CHAPTER 3 Cellular Organelles -- INTERNAL MEMBRANES -- GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANELLE MEMBRANES -- THE NUCLEUS -- DNA PACKAGING IN THE NUCLEUS -- NUCLEOSOMES: THE SUBUNITS OF CHROMATIN -- ORGANIZATION OF CHROMATIN FIBRE -- THE NUCLEAR ENVELOPE -- GENETIC ORGANIZATION OF THE NUCLEUS -- MITOCHONDRIA AND CHLOROPLASTS -- MITOCHONDRIAL AND CHLOROPLASTIC STRUCTURE -- METABOLIC FUNCTIONS -- MITOCHONDRIA: ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND CHEMIOSMOTIC THEORY -- CHLOROPLASTS: TRAPPING LIGHT AND FIXATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE -- OTHER ORGANELLES AND THEIR MEMBRANES -- ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM -- GOLGI APPARATUS -- SECRETORY VESICLES -- LYSOSOMES -- MICROBODIES AND PEROXISOMES -- VACUOLES -- CHAPTER 4 The Cell Matrix and Mechanisms of Cell Communication -- THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX -- MATRIX POLYSACCHARIDES -- MATRIX PROTEINS -- CELL-MATRIX INTERACTIONS -- THE CYTOSKELETON -- ACTIN FILAMENTS -- MICROTUBULES -- INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS -- INTERCELLULAR RECOGNITION AND CELL ADHESION -- TISSUE AND SPECIES RECOGNITION -- CELL JUNCTIONS.

COMMUNICATION VIA CHEMICAL SIGNALING -- TYPES OF CHEMICAL SIGNALING -- SIGNAL RECEPTORS -- INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANT CELLS -- CHAPTER 5 Cell Division, Growth, and Differentiation -- DUPLICATION OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL -- CELL DIVISION -- MITOSIS AND CYTOKINESIS -- MEIOSIS -- THE CELL DIVISION CYCLE -- CONTROLLED PROLIFERATION -- FAILURE OF PROLIFERATION CONTROL -- CELL DIFFERENTIATION -- THE DIFFERENTIATED STATE -- THE ROLE OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS -- THE PROCESS OF DIFFERENTIATION -- ERRORS IN DIFFERENTIATION -- MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH -- NECROSIS -- APOPTOSIS -- CHAPTER 6 The Study of Cells -- THE HISTORY OF CELL THEORY -- EARLY OBSERVATIONS -- THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN OF CELLS -- THE PROTOPLASM CONCEPT -- CONTRIBUTION OF OTHER SCIENCES -- CELL AND TISSUE CULTURE -- THE PRESERVATION OF CELLS -- CELLS IN MEDICINE -- TISSUE ENGINEERING -- STEM CELLS -- CONCLUSION -- HISTORY OF CELL THEORY -- NATURE AND FUNCTION OF CELLS -- SPECIAL FUNCTIONS OF CELLS -- STRUCTURE OF CELLS -- PLANT CELLS -- MEMBRANE CHANNELS -- Index -- BACK COVER.