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The music of life : biology beyond the genome /
What is Life? This is the question asked by Denis Noble in this very personal and at times deeply lyrical book. Noble is a renowned physiologist and systems biologist, and he argues that the genome is not life itself: to understand what life is, we must view it at a variety of different levels, all...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What is Life? This is the question asked by Denis Noble in this very personal and at times deeply lyrical book. Noble is a renowned physiologist and systems biologist, and he argues that the genome is not life itself: to understand what life is, we must view it at a variety of different levels, all interacting with each other in a complex web. It is that emergent web, full of feedback between levels, from the gene to the wider environment, that is life. - ;What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are o. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 153 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191516276 0191516279 9780199295739 0199295735 1281154970 9781281154972 0199228361 9780199228362 |