Cell & Molecular

Biology

Cells

“fundamentalunits of life...”

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Microscopes

Bright field, 400xHematoxylin stained

Bright field, 1000xHematoxylin stained

Fluorescence, 1000xActin-labeled

Fluorescence, 400xActin-labeled + Nucleus-labeled

Fluorescence, 1000xActin-labeled + Nucleus-labeled

Scanning ElectronMicroscope

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The

CentralDogma

TheFlow of Biological

Information

Genome

Prokaryotic Cells

Figure 1-11 Essential Cell Biology (© Garland Science 2010)

Bright field, 1000xCoomassie Blue stained

Bright field, 1000xHematoxylin stained

Eukaryotic Cells

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Giardia

Organelles

Figure 1-8a Essential Cell Biology (© Garland Science 2010)

Assignment 2

Find out and tell us aboutan organelle

The Nucleus

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Mitochondria

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Chloroplasts

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TheEndoplasmicReticulum

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The Golgi Apparatus

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The Cytoskeleton

Lysosomes

Peroxisomes

Putting it all together

Figure 1-24 Essential Cell Biology (© Garland Science 2010)

Model Organisms

Easy to GrowEasy to ManipulateSimpleWell CharacterizedRepresentativeHomologous Genes

Bright field, 1000xCoomassie Blue stained

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Putting it all together