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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Dual Nature of Life
    sub title: Interplay of the Individual and the Genome
  name:
    name part: Zhegunov, Gennadiy.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 300 p. online resource.
  abstract: Life is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth, characterized by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies from nonliving material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long defied precise definition. This book from a seasoned biologist offers new insights into the nature of life by illuminating a fascinating architecture of dualities inherent in its existence and propagation. Life is connected with individual living beings, yet it is also a collective and inherently global phenomenon of the material world. It embodies a dual existence of cycles of phenotypic life, and their unseen driver — an uninterrupted march of genetic information whose collective immortality is guaranteed by individual mortality. Although evolution propagates and tunes species of organisms, the beings produced can be regarded merely as tools for the survival and cloning of genomes written in an unchanging code. What are the physical versus informational bases and driving forces of life, and how do they unite as an integrated system? What does time mean for individuals, life on the global scale, and the underlying information? This accessible examination of principles and evidence shows that a network of dualities lies at the heart of biological puzzles that have engaged the human mind for millennia.
  table of contents: The Phenomenon of Life. Essentials.- Living Bodies – Carriers of Life.- How Life Works – Mechanisms and Processes of Living Bodies -- Mechanisms of the Invisible World of Information -- Duality of Life.
  note: by Gennadiy Zhegunov.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Cell biology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Cell Biology
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783642303944
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30394-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 120724
    record change date: 20151030021154.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-30394-4