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The emergence of life : from chemical origins to synthetic biology /
Uniquely combining biology and philosophy, this book offers a systematic course in the emergence of life from inanimate matter through to cellular life. With review questions included, this book will appeal to graduate students, academics and researchers in the field of the origin of life and other...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth
- Approaches to the definitions of life
- Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this ... and not that?
- The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences
- Self-organization
- The notion of emergence
- Self-replication and self-reproduction
- Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life
- Compartments
- Reactivity and transformation of vesicles
- Approaches to the minimal cell.