Features
New in the Third Edition
- Completely updated throughout.
- Based on student and instructor feedback, the Third Edition now includes:
- Integration of cell cycle and cell division into a single chapter.
- Improved treatment of thermodynamics and energetics.
- Integration of multi-media throughout text.
- The addition of a quizzing feature to the Media Player.
- Greater focus on regulation, including new material on chromosome structure and epigenetics, post-transcriptional control (riboswitches, microRNAs, and RNAi), and metabolic controls.
- Additional attention to disease and medicine, including new material on quality control in protein production, cell-cell recognition, genetic variation, cancer treatments, and enhanced coverage of stem cells and their potential to treat disease.
- New treatment of genome evolution and comparative genomics.
- New coverage of modern recombinant DNA and cell visualization technologies.
- New “How We Know” sections.
- Revised Question Bank for instructors including questions that can be used with student response systems (i.e. clickers).
Hallmark Features
- The authors are known worldwide for their research, teaching, writing, and leadership in science and science education.
- The text reflects the accuracy, authority, and currency of the renowned Molecular Biology of the Cell, but it is written at an introductory level.
- Concept headings descriptively introduce each section.
- The art program emphasizes central concepts without unnecessary detail.
- "How We Know" sections in every chapter introduce experimental science by explaining both the methods and scientific intuition of classical and current experiments.
- Questions interspersed throughout and at the end of each chapter test students' understanding and stimulate curiosity (all questions answered in the back of the book).
- Panels that concisely review basic science, principles, pathways, as well as other topics.
- Key terms in text listed at the end of each chapter.
- Detailed, illustrated glossary.
- "Essential Concepts" review for each chapter.