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Achieve for Interactive Cell Biology (1-Term Access)
First Edition©2025 Smart Biology; Andrew Catalano
Interactive Cell Biology: Seeing is Understanding: A Journey through Cell Biology. Interactive Cell Biology (ICB) provides you with a consistent, continuous learning journey with powerful 3-D animations, integrated assessment, and a guiding narrative. Plus student tools such as a printable Course Companion and Flash Cards to help you succeed in your Cell Biology Course
Table of Contents
Unit 1 | Foundations of Cell Biology: Molecules, Macromolecules, and Chemical Energy
Chapter 1 Entering the Fascinating World of Cells
Chapter 2 The Building Blocks of Cells: Molecules and Macromolecules
Chapter 3 A Closer Look at DNA and Proteins
Chapter 4 Lipid Membranes and Cell Compartmentalization
Chapter 5 Cells are Powered by Chemical Energy
Unit 2 | The Functional Backbone: From the Nucleolus to the Endomembrane System
Chapter 6 Ancient Ribosomes: The Nucleolus, Nucleus, and Nucleic Acids (DNA and RNA)
Chapter 7 From DNA to mRNA: Transcribing the Code of Life
Chapter 8 From mRNA to Protein: Processing and Translating the Code of Life
Chapter 9 The Regulation of Protein Production
Chapter 10 Protein Trafficking through the Cytosol
Chapter 11 Protein Trafficking into the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Chapter 12 Protein Trafficking through the Endomembrane System
Unit 3 | Energy and Structure: Chloroplasts, Mitochondria, the Cytoskeleton, and the Cell Membrane
Chapter 13 Chloroplasts and Photosynthesis: Producing Fuel for Everyone
Chapter 14 Mitochondria and Aerobic Cellular Respiration: Refining the Fuel
Chapter 15 The Cytoskeleton: Shape, Strength, Roadways, and Movement
Chapter 16 The Cell Membrane: The Gatekeeper of Life
Unit 4 | The Working Cell: Cell Communication, the Cell Cycle, and Multicellularity
Chapter 17 Cell Communication, Signal Transduction, and Response
Chapter 18 Signal Transduction Pathways: Messengers and Receptors
Chapter 19 The Cell Cycle and DNA Replication
Chapter 20 Cell Cycle Regulation
Chapter 21 From Single Cell to Multicellular Organism
Smart Biology
Smart Biology is on a mission to change how the world understands biology. Our Animated Textbooks represent a highly visual approach to understanding biology and a long overdue alternative to the traditional textbook. We want students to not just memorize, but truly understand biology. We therefore integrate data from across the literature to create comprehensive resources consisting of high quality, accurate animations, 3D interactive structures, text, figures, LMS-quizzes, and much more, all representative of everything that we know today on a given subject. Students can now see, hear, and interact with atoms, genes, cells, evolution, and more.
Andrew Catalano
Andrew Catalano has always wanted to understand how life works at the molecular level. However during his undergraduate studies this effort was hindered by the lack of accurate visualizations in biology textbooks. After completing his PhD in cell and molecular biology, he pursued postdoctoral work in x-ray crystallography, aiming to gain a deeper insight into the processes that occur at the nanometer scale within cells. To his surprise, he soon discovered that the data required for accurate visualizations had long existed in the scientific literature, and the problem was therefore the gap that separated this wealth of information from what was presented in undergraduate textbooks. As chance would have it, Andrew was also a self-taught 3D animator with a visual arts background, and thus possessed the unique skillset required to bridge this divide. Departing from academia, he founded Smart Biology to embark on a mission to redefine biology education. He soon began integrating all types of data from across the literature to produce highly accurate, pedagogical, 3D biology animations for undergraduate teaching. After producing hundreds of animations covering a wide range of topics, he gained a much deeper understanding of the cellular and molecular world, and was thus able to not only show accuracy, but also the big picture and the evolutionary perspective. After more than a decade, Smart Biology has grown into a successful business, and while he is now accompanied by a great team, Andrew continues to produce animations, not just for undergraduates, but also for his own personal drive to understand how life works.
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