Abstract
Cell is the basic unit of a living organism. This chapter focuses on the structure and functionalities of a typical eukaryotic cell. Inside a eukaryotic cell, the organelles are arranged in an orderly fashion, maintaining a clear detachment from each other. Each of the organelles performs a particular cellular function and helps the cell to grow. A living organism grows gradually from its birth through cell divisions. A cell can produce replica giving birth to two new cells. During cell division, the hereditary materials are propagated into the offspring. The process is accomplished following some predefined rules. But unexpectedly, a cell may start disobeying the rules resulting in some genetic changes. A brief overview is given about how the cellular organelles are organized inside the cytoplasm, how a cell grows following a cyclic pattern, and how abnormal growth results in cancer.
Where a cell arises, there must be a previous cell, just as animals can only arise from animals and plants from plants.
(Rudlof Virchow 1858).
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Santra, D. (2022). Cell Biology and Cell Behavior in Cancer. In: Basu, S.K., Panda, C.K., Goswami, S. (eds) Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4752-9_2
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