Biology for Engineers is an interdisciplinary textbook designed for the students of various engineering streams to appreciate the link between biological science and engineering. Organised into eleven chapters, the book begins with a chapter that discusses the significance of biology in the engineering context and moves onto the basics of origin of life followed by a brief chapter on evolution. Concepts of cell biology is discussed in very details spread over four exclusive chapters. This is followed by chapters on DNA and cell replication and quantification. The last few chapters discusses chapters on proteins, mendelian genetics, cellular organelles before concluding with the chapter on human physiology.About the Author: G K Suraishkumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) Dr G K Suraishkumar is Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He has been at IITM as a Professor since May 2004, and was earlier a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). He was also an Associate Faculty member in the erstwhile Centre for Biotechnology, which is now the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, at IIT-Bombay, between 1995 and 2004. A Ph.D. from Drexel University, Philadelphia, he also did his masters at the University of Cincinnati.