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About life : concepts in modern biology /
This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question: "What distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world?" In the first few chapters, the authors draw on recent advances in cell and molecular biology to develop an account of the "living state" that applie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; [London] :
Springer,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ingredients of the simplest cells (prokaryotes and the sizes of their contents)
- Bigger cells (eukaryotic cells and their contents)
- Hives of industry (a survey of intermediary metabolism)
- Delights of transport (how the cell's contents are moved around)
- As if standing still (cellular homeostasis and regulatory processes)
- Internal state and gene expression (transcription and its control)
- Sustaining and changing the internal state (the interrelationship between gene expression and the cell's current composition and functional state)
- Responding to the environment (signal processing, gene expression and internal state)
- The living state (a characterization of 'life')
- Stability and change in DNA (how genes can be altered)
- The spice of life (diversity, natural selection and symbiosis)
- Curriculum vitae (an outline history of life on Earth)
- The origin of life (some major ideas and unanswered questions)
- Other worlds (the possibility of extraterrestrial life)
- Intelligent behavior and brains (the biological meaning of "intelligence")
- Human evolution (human intelligence and the question of human uniqueness)
- Cells, brains and computers: towards a characterisation of mind.