Research Catalog

Title

About life : concepts in modern biology / by Paul S. Agutter and Denys N. Wheatley.

Author

Agutter, Paul S., 1946-

Publication

Dordrecht ; London : Springer, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Wheatley, D. N. (Denys N.)

Description

viii, 244 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Cell Physiological Phenomena
• Cytology
• Life
• Life (Biology)
• Molecular Biology
• Molecular biology
• Organisms > Identification
• Origin of Life

Genre/Form

Guidebooks.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 (how the cell's 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, gene expression and internal state) -- The living state (a characterization of 'life') -- Stability and change in DNA (how genes can be altered) -- The spice of life (diversity, natural selection and symbiosis) -- Curriculum vitae (an outline history of life on Earth) -- The origin of life (some major ideas and unanswered questions) -- Other worlds (the possibility of extraterrestrial life) -- Intelligent behavior and brains (the biological meaning of "intelligence") -- Human evolution (human intelligence and the question of human uniqueness) -- Cells, brains and computers: towards a characterisation of mind.

ISBN

• 9781402054174 (pbk.)
• 1402054173 (pbk.)

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Harvard Library