Using DNA Information to Make Proteins covers a oecentral dogmaa  meaning the conversion of DNA information into RNA and protein. Readers will also learn about non-linear information of mRNA and protein processing.

Many people were taught that DNA is the a oeblueprint of the cell, a  but what does that really mean? If taken literally, it would reveal a static image of what the cell looks like, but that would be incorrect. DNA codes the necessary information to produce a living being but the DNA itself is insufficient to bring a cell to life. DNA must be transcribed into...

Animal behavior includes the exchange of non of the same species. Animals exchange information for a variety of reasons, including mating, defense, and cooperation, and all of these situations will be discussed.

This book will describe the functions of communication and information transfer between organisms and explain how animals communicate and find each other through use of different signals. The costs and benefits of using various signals will be evaluated, as will the costs and benefits of living in groups. Playback experiments and the comparative method are approaches used for...

Population growth, dynamics, and blooms of bacterial, unicellular eukaryotes, and toxic algae are described in this book.

Microbes are used to illustrate both exponential and logistic population growth. Microbes are also used to illustrate dynamics in other aspects of ecological systems, including nutrient cycling. The movement of nitrogen in ecological systems is largely affected by microbes, some of which have symbiotic relationships with legums.

The effects of the environment on the growth of microbes and the effects of the microbes on ecological systems are described in...

Cellular Consequences of Evolution applies evolutionary mechanism to understand how DNA mutations are formed and how new species arise. The final chapter applies evolution to B cells and considers why allergies get worse over time. Once the first cell arose on Earth, how did genetic diversity arise if DNA replication and cell division generate exact copies? The answer is that neither process is perfect and that changes do occur at each step. Some changes are small and subtle while others are large and dramatic. As DNA mutates, evolution of a population takes place. But when can someone...

Many people find the process of cell metabolism boring and dry, but thata (TM)s because they tried to memorize all the steps. This book takes a fresh approach and shows the elegance of cells extracting energy from food and regulating this process as needed. What happens to a meal after it is eaten?

Food consists primarily of lipids, proteins and carbohydrates (sugars). How do cells in the body process food once it is eaten and turn it into a form of energy that other cells can use? This book examines some of the classic experimental data that revealed how cells break down food to extract...

Cells: Structure and Function looks at structure and function at the cellular level first by discussing how difficult it is to define a cell. Then it addresses two size extremes by looking at the upper limit for cell size and whether viruses are alive or not.

All life is composed of cells, but what is the definition of a cell? Can size, shape or function be used to distinguish cells from non-living biological systems such as a virus? Whatever the definition of a cell is, it can probably be contradicted by cells with unusual characteristics. For example, there are cells as long as a...