Jack Challoner,Philip Dash

The Cell

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The microscopic cell is Earths greatest success story, and the common ancestor we share with all other organisms. Formed over three and a half billion years ago, life exploded from this minuscule powerhouse, first throughout the seas and then, over millions of years, across the lands to create the complex living forms populating the planet today. Yet, how has such a minute organism been so powerful? What has enabled it both to create and break down life on earth over billions of years? And, how have cells interacted to create an extraordinary diversity of plant, aquatic, terrestrial, and avian life? Here, Jack Challoner shines a spotlight on the passage of the cell through time to explore how a continual myriad of interactions and symbiotic relationships have been, and continue to be, the extraordinary catalyst for life.
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520 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Maureen -has quoted6 years ago
    function of the nucleus (found only in eukaryotic cells) is simply to keep the huge expanse of DNA in one place.
  • Maureen -has quoted6 years ago
    nucleus has a phospholipid bilayer membrane of its own, just like the cell’s main membrane. And, of course, it lets things in and out, just as the cell’s membrane does.
  • Maureen -has quoted6 years ago
    Around certain sections of DNA inside the nucleus is a dense crowding of molecules that constantly produce new ribosomes, the molecular machines that actually build the proteins.
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