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Cells The online version of this chapter contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. are the basic units of life. A cell consists of a concentrated aqueous solution of molecules contained in a membrane, called plasma membrane. A cell is capable of replicating itself by growing and dividing. Cells that have a nucleus are called eukaryotes, and cells that do not have a nucleus are called prokaryotes. Bacteria are prokaryotes, while yeast and amoebas, as well as most cells in our body, are eukaryotes. The Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are very long polymeric molecules, consisting of two strands of chains, having double helix configuration, with repeated nucleotide units A, C, G, and T. The DNA is packed in chromosomes, within the nucleus in eukaryotes. In humans, the number of chromosomes is 46, except in sperm and egg cells where the number is 23.
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Chou, CS., Friedman, A. (2016). Enzyme Dynamics. In: Introduction to Mathematical Biology. Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29638-8_10
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