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...

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Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Agutter, Paul S. (Συγγραφέας), Wheatley, Denys N. (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • 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 (Mechanisms by which Cellular 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 and its Relationship to Cell Structure, Metabolism and Gene Expression)
  • The Living State (A general characterization of 'life')
  • Stability and Change in DNA (Why DNA is highly stable and a Survey of the Mechanisms by which it can Change)
  • The Spice of Life (Variety, Habitats, Natural Selection, Symbiosis, Ecosystems)
  • Curriculum Vitae (An Outline History of Life on Earth)
  • The Origin of Life (Major Ideas and Unanswered Questions)
  • Other Worlds (Ideas about Extraterrestrial Life, including a Critique of the Assumptions behind the 'Drake Equation' and the SETI Project)
  • Intelligent Behaviour and Brains (The Meaning of 'Intelligence')
  • Human Intelligence (Human Evolution and the Question of Human Uniqueness)
  • Cells, Brains and Computers: towards a Characterisation of Mind
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography.