The Cell: A Molecular Approach

by Geoffrey Cooper, Kenneth Adams

Overview

The Cell: A Molecular Approach is an ideal resource for undergraduate students in a one-semester introduction to cell biology.

The Cell: A Molecular Approach endeavors to address those issues with succinct writing, incorporation of current research, a test bank that encourages critical thinking, and an active learning framework. The text presents fundamental concepts and current research, including chapters on Genomics and Transcriptional Regulation and Epigenetics, and new in-text boxed features on Molecular Medicine and Key Experiments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197583722
Publisher:	Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/26/2022
Edition description:	9th ed.
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	8.78(w) x 10.86(h) x 1.52(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey M. Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Boston University. Receiving a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Miami in 1973, he pursued postdoctoral work with Howard Temin at the University of Wisconsin, where he developed gene transfer assays to characterize the proviral DNAs of Rous sarcoma virus and related retroviruses. He then joined the faculty of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in 1975, where he pioneered the discovery of oncogenes in human cancers. Since moving to Boston University in 1998, he has served as Chair of Biology and Associate Dean of the Faculty for Natural Sciences, as well as teaching undergraduate cell biology and continuing his research on the roles of oncogenes in the signaling pathways that regulate cell proliferation and programmed cell death. He has authored over 100 research papers, two textbooks on cancer and an award-winning novel, The Prize, dealing with fraud in medical research.

Table of Contents

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS AND FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1 Introduction to Cells and Cell Research

Chapter 2 Physical Principles Underlying Cell Structure and Function

Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Molecular Biology

PART II: THE FLOW OF GENETIC INFORMATION

Chapter 4 Genes and Genomes

Chapter 5 Replication, Maintenance, and Rearrangements of Genomic DNA

Chapter 6 RNA Synthesis and Processing

Chapter 7 Transcriptional Regulation and Epigenetics

Chapter 8 Protein Synthesis, Processing, and Regulation

Chapter 9 Genomics, Proteomics, and Systems Biology

PART III: SUB-CELLULAR STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS

Chapter 10 The Nucleus

Chapter 11 Protein Sorting and Transport: The Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, and Lysosomes

Chapter 12 Mitochondria, Chloroplasts, and Peroxisomes

Chapter 13 The Cytoskeleton and Cell Movement

Chapter 14 The Plasma Membrane

Chapter 15 Cell Walls, the Extracellular Matrix, and Cell Interactions

PART IV: Cell Regulation

Chapter 16 Cell Signaling

Chapter 17 The Cell Cycle

Chapter 18 Cell Renewal and Cell Death

Chapter 19 Cancer