
Molecular Biology
Description
Key Features
- Winner of a 2013 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association
- Includes interactive elements for enhanced student understanding and self-testing; animations to clarify complex content; and study guides equipped with full-text Cell Press journal articles
- New to second edition: updated chapters on genomics and systems biology; proteomics; bacterial genetics; and molecular evolution and RNA
- Fully revised art
Readership
Undergraduate students taking a course in Molecular Biology; upper-level students studying Cell Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Agriculture
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Basic Chemical and Biological Principles
Ch1 Cells and Organisms
Ch2 Basic Genetics
Ch3 DNA, RNA, and Protein
Ch4 Genes, Genomes, and DNA
Ch5 Manipulation of Nucleic Acids
Unit 2: The Genome
Ch6 Polymerase Chain Reaction
Ch7 Cloning Genes for Analysis
Ch8 DNA Sequencing
Ch9 Genomics & Systems Biology
Unit 3: The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
Ch10 Cell Division and DNA Replication
Ch11 Transcription of Genes
Ch12 Processing of RNA
Ch13 Protein Synthesis
Ch14 Protein Structure & Function
Ch15 Proteomics: Global Analysis of Proteins
Unit 4: Regulating Gene Expression
Ch16 Regulation of Transcription in Prokaryotes
Ch17 Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes
Ch18 Regulation at RNA Level
Ch19 Analysis of Gene Expression (Transcriptome)
Unit 5: Subcellular Life Forms
Ch20 Plasmids
Ch21 Viruses
Ch22 Mobile DNA
Unit 6: Changing the DNA Blueprint
Ch23 Mutations and Repair
Ch24 Recombination
Ch25 Bacterial Genetics
Ch26 Molecular Evolution
Product details
- No. of pages: 928
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Cell 2013
- Published: July 10, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Cell
- eBook ISBN: 9780124105171
About the Authors
David Clark

Affiliations and Expertise
Nanette Pazdernik
