Cell biology

From Wikinfo

Cell biology (cellular biology) is an academic discipline which studies the physiological properties of cells, as well as their behaviours, intercellular interactions, and environment; this is done both on a microscopic and molecular level. Cell biology researches both single-celled organisms like bacteria and specialized cells in multicellular organisms like humans.

Cell biology is closely related to genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology and developmental biology.

See also

• Active transport
• Nucleus
• Cilia
• Cytoplasm
• Cytoskeleton
• Endoplasmic reticulum
• Flagella
• Glycolysis
• Golgi apparatus
• Lipid bilayer
• Membrane
• Mitochondrion
• Organelle
• Passive transport
• Ribosome
• Signal transduction
• Vesicle

External links

• Wikibooks: Cell Biology
• The WWW Virtual Library of Cell Biology

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Cell_biology" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_biology, used under the GNU Free Documentation License