The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life
Living organisms are open thermodynamic systems whose functional structure has developed and been kinetically frozen during the historical process of biological evolution. A thermodynamics of both nonequilibrium and complex systems is needed for their description. In this book, the foundations of su...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
Colección: | The Frontiers Collection,
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Biophysics: An Experimental Tool of Biology or the Physics of Animate Matter?
- Statistical Description of Matter
- Thermodynamic State
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Molecular Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell
- Chemical Reactions
- Enzymatic Catalysis
- Biological Free Energy Transduction
- Lack of Partial Thermodynamic Equilibrium
- Thermodynamic Supplement
- Stochastic Processes
- Structure of Biomolecules
- Dynamics of Biomolecules.