It is fascinating to know that division of labour exists among our body cells. That is why the cells in the eyes are different from the cells found in …
CELL DIFFERENTIATION IN THE HUMAN BODY
CELL ORGANELLES: THE GOLGI APPARATUS
Golgi apparatus is a stack of flattened membrane bound vesicles that functions in the storage, modification and repackaging of manufactured biochemical substances in the cell. This organelle was discovered by …
CELL DIVISION: MITOSIS
Mitosis is a type of cell division occurring in the somatic cells (body cells). The brain, eye, heart, skin cells all multiply by mitosis. Emphasis will be laid on …
IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN MICROBIOLOGY
INTRODUCTION TO CELL DIVISION
A teacher once asked his five years old student during a lecture: “Why do you want to marry?”. The child answered: “I want to marry in order to give birth …
TRANSLATION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Not to be confused with Transcription Translation is the synthesis of protein from mRNA template obtained from the transcription process. The translation process is carried out in an amino …
TRANSCRIPTION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Beauties locked up in an enclosure can neither be recognized nor appreciated. The genetic information in the genome of living organisms when expressed is observed on the physical appearance of …
MECHANISM OF DNA REPLICATION
Increase in body size, height, and weight of every organism start from the body cells, and the whole activities of the cells are determined by the nucleic acid (Deoxyribonucleic acid) …
INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
So many questions we all asked when we were young: Why is my nose flat while my friends had a pointed nose? Why do I have wooly hair while my …