Characteristics of life -- Substances and their transformations -- Anatomy of cells -- What do proteins do? -- What are proteins? -- What do genes do? -- What are genes? -- Replication and recombination of dna -- Synthesis of protein -- Genetic code -- Cellular control mechanisms -- Molecular biology of tomorrow
Summary
A fourteen-year-old girl, shy and snobbish, struggles with mixed feelings about the brash "lower class" girl in the opposite hospital bed