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Ahead of his time : Wilhelm Pfeffer, early advances in plant biology /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Ottawa [Ont.] :
Carleton University Press,
1989.
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| Colección: | Carleton science series ;
# 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Translator's Note
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction and Some Important Dates in Pfeffer's Life
- 2. Basic Perception of Natural Science
- a) A Life Devoted to Science
- b) All Processes of Life Have a Physical Explanation
- c) The Complexity of Life's Processes Is Often Overlooked
- d) Biological Structures Do Not Have Sharp Boundaries. There Is no Realization of An Idea
- 3. Pharmacy
- Chemistry
- Botany
- Physiology
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Biology
- a) In the Pharmacy
- b) Botanist
- c) Physiology
- D) Molecular Biology, Micelles, Macro-Moleculese) Only a Laboratory Botanist?
- 4. Mimosa, Staminal Filaments, Osmometer, Plasma Membrane
- a) From Staminal Filaments to the Osmometer
- b) The Plasma Membrane
- c) The Contractile Cell
- 5. The Plasma Membrane � The Gate Keeper in the Service of the Protoplast
- a) Properties of the Plasma Membrane
- b) Advances and Reversals after Pfeffer. Membranes Play an Active Role
- 6. The Single-Celled Organism Has the Ability to Do Everything. A Few Letters Are Adequate for the Genetic Code
- 7. Sensitivities of Single-Celled Organisms8. Triggering within the Organism
- a) Stimulation
- b) Senses
- 9. Regulation and Feedback in the Organism
- a) Feedback, Law of Mass Action
- b) Adaptation of Enzyme Formation to the Substrate
- c) Oscillations about Equilibrium
- 10. Activation, Regulation, Feedback Applied to the Technology Used for Physiological Studies
- 11. Energetics
- a) There is no Special Vital Force
- b) Life without Oxygen
- c) Energy Conversion of the Cell at Rest
- D) An Organism Does Not Have a Closed System of Energy12. Endogenous Diurnal and Annual Periodicity
- a) Circadian Leaf Movements
- b) Hereditary or Conditioned Behaviour? The Darwin-Pfeffer Controversy
- c) The Self-regulatory Periodicity of Inherent Factors
- d) Advances and Reversals after Pfeffer
- e) Self-regulation of Annual Periodicity
- 13. Correlations: The Study of Irrelevant Details with Unexpected Consequences
- 14. Flaws in Literary Style
- 15. Purkinje
- J. MÃ?ller
- Helmholtz
- Sachs
- Pfeffer
- 16. The Spread of PfeffergewÃ?chse [Pepper Plants] throughout the Worlda) Pfeffer's 265 Students
- b) The High Repute of Botany in Germany at the Turn of the Century
- 17. Where Did This Great Spirit Originate? His Character
- a) The Ancestors
- b) Character Traits
- 18. Duties within the University
- a) General
- b) Hermann Ullrich : Reminiscences on Studies with Pfeffer (a Personal Report)
- 19. Honours and a Sad End
- a) Honours
- b) Pessimism and Depression
- c) 1918-1920
- d) The Legacy
- 20. In Retrospect
- 21. Epilogue
- Notes