INTRODUCTION TO CELL BIOLOGY

1.2 INTRODUCTION The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of cellular organization. Enclosed within a selectively permeable membrane, it contains a complete set of diverse units necessary to sustain its own growth and reproduction from simple nutrients. All organisms more complex than viruses consist of cells; yet, even a virus consists of a strand of nucleic acid—either DNA or RNA—surrounded by a protective protein coat known as the capsid. The word "cell" is derived from […]

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A Typical Animal Cell

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