THE MANGA GUIDE TO apie MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MASAHARU TAKEMURA SAKURA BECOM CO., LTD.THE MANGA GUIDE” TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Ql =CONTENTS PREFACE. PROLOGUE hai nan clcea near caeKae 1 WHAT IS A CELL?.... ican eee ACell Is a Little Sack of Life Every Living Organism Is Made of Cells Cells Are Alive ....... Cal Is Made Up of Various Molecules I've Never Seen a Cell! ... The Longest Cell in Our Bodies Let's Look Inside a Cell... . Let's Penetrate the Cell Membrane. Cell Organelles The Nucleus: 4 Little Brain... What's inside the Nucleus?. . Single-Celled and Muticelllar Organisms. si Prokaryotic Organisms and Eukaryotic Organisms. ... 2 PROTEINS AND DNA: DECIPHERING THE GENETIC CODE Proteins Drive Cellular Activity 3 What Is Cellular Activity?. ....... Explosion of Enzyme Power! Proteins Acting as Enzymes Proteins’ Role in Cell Division Proteins and Muscle Contraction . Summary Proteins Are Made of Amino Acids . .. Replacing One Amino Acid with Another Is a Big Deall Genes: The Blueprint for Building Proteins ........ How Do Cells Know What Proteins to Create? Blueprints Ensure the Amino Acid Arrangement Is Correct, Our Genes Are Written in Code. DNA and Nucleotides DNA Has a Double- Helix Structure DNA Is Made of Nucleotides. Nucleotides Are the Characters in the “Code”. The Genome: A Library of Genes......... xi 16 16 20 23 27 31 35 37 48 51 53 59 59 61 69 sarees 70) nm 72 rit 75 m 7 78 19 81 81 84 88