cells

This title highlights all the gross stuff your body produces everyday.

Photographs and diagrams describe how the body's DNA and cells help it grow and influence its physical characteristics.

Explains the purposes of cells and discusses how they function and work together to allow multi-celled creatures survive. Reveals how we view and study cells and includes color photographs, a glossary, and additional reading sources.

Despite the vast diversity of living organisms on Earth, all life falls into only one of two categories: prokaryotes or eukaryotes. Examining the basic parts of a cell, cell types, cell function, and cell reproduction, this concise volume explains what makes certain cells eukaryotic and others prokaryotic and how the two cell types are related. Detailed diagrams complement the text to help readers easily identify various cell features and integrate textual and visual information, in line with Common Core requirements.

Cells are the building blocks of life and diversify in amazing ways to create every form of living thing. This authoritative guide covers the basics of what a cell is and how cells reproduce and change in order to form different life forms and perform specialized functions. It also covers how scientists have learned to manipulate and regenerate cells, leading to advances in medicine. The controversy surrounding cloning technology is discussed, as is the exciting future of cytology and cell biology. The most likely future frontiers of innovation and discovery are outlined in enthralling detail.

Readers will find out how viruses replicate and travel from place to place. They will understand that viruses don't just infect people. Perhaps most importantly, readers will learn what they can do to protect themselves from viruses now and in the future.

Introduces cells, examining the differences between animal and plant cells, including the parts of a cell, how they function, and how they move.

Examines how scientists arrived at the theory of cells as the basic units of living things, as well as what has resulted from the widespread acceptance of this theory.

Provides essential information on cell functions, including amino acids, fibrous and globular proteins, DNA, protein synthesis, and metabolism.

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces plant and animal cells and their cycles, including cell diagrams, meiosis, mitosis, and disease"--.