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Engaging and fasincating

Not light reading. I took microbiology, genetics, immunology, biochem, etc in college, but not cell biology, so this book helps make up for it a little. Update on science: the author mentioned the formerly popular notion of "junk DNA." That theory is showing itself to be junk, e.g. for the non-protein intending portions of the DNA are increasingly demonstrated to be necessary for microRNAs in DNA management.

It didn't fit my schedule to take cell biology in college, so here's my chance to make up for it a little. I don't care what the author says, although he freely writes of the wonders of the cell, God is great. If you like fabulous machines, you just might dig this.

The human body is a republic of cells, a society of discrete living beings who have, for the good of the society as a whole, sacrifices their individual freedoms. ¶ So profound is this sacrifice that cells have gone so far as to sign their own death warrants and hand them over to their neighbor cells. Then should a cell's continued existence become a threat to its society, the neighbors may execute the warrant and le

It didn't fit my schedule to take cell biology in college, so here's my chance to make up for it a little. I don't care what the author says, although he freely writes of the wonders of the cell, God is great. If you like fabulous machines, you just might dig this.