The third edition of this text is completely reorganized to reflect new discoveries, emphases and approaches. It covers advances in signal transduction, intracellular protein sorting, and gene regulation; it also adds two new chapters on recombinant DNA techniques and proteins as machines.
Cell division is a central biological process: it yields the cells required for development and growth, and supplies the replacement cells to repair and maintain old or damaged tissue. This book gives the students a complete overview of the process of cell division - from chromosome division, through mitosis, cytokinesis, and meiosis.