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Who are we? : microbes, the puppet masters! /
Our genome is littered with scraps of DNA, termed "junk" DNAs, that serve no apparent purpose. Junk DNAs make up as much as 98.5% of our genome. Scientists believe that some junk DNAs came into existence millions of years ago, when viruses inserted their DNA into that of the human host. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why do you get a kick out of roller coaster rides and bungee jumps?
- Looking into the cells : how human are we?
- Looking into the command post of human cells : the nucleus, are we human at all?
- Why is there so much junk in our genes?
- The tendency of humans to trade-off our body functions under the assault of disease-causing microbes
- Looking into our intestines
- Why do we have diarrhoea?
- Do we eat because we need the food?
- Microbes help those who help themselves
- Are we fat because we eat too much and exercise too little?
- Our indecent liaison with yeast
- Who is the father of democracy?
- The pseudo-tyrants
- Did HIV learn from smallpox?
- Why are some pathogens more willing to kill the hosts than others?
- SARS virus, the new kid on the block
- Who is afraid of bird flu?
- Why do microbes want to colonize the human body?
- Does the ability to love make humans different from lower forms of organisms?
- Microbes kill for their offspring!
- Does your blood type determine your fortune?
- A human body without microbes?