Features

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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.