The life sciences : recent progress and application to human affairs, the world of biological research, requirements for the future.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Research.

Biology.

Life sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington : National Academy of Sciences, 1970.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""The Life Sciences""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""MAJOR CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""PROLOGUE""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Population Problems""; ""The Environment""; ""Health""; ""Agriculture""; ""The Academic Endeavor in the Life Sciences""; ""INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS""; ""GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES""; ""STIPENDS""; ""CURRICULA""; ""MEDICAL STUDENTS""; ""TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS""; ""POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION""; ""RESEARCH SUPPORT""; ""FEDERAL RESEARCH-SUPPORTING AGENCIES""; ""SPECIALIZED FACILITIES""; ""INSTRUMENTS""; ""COMPUTERS""; ""LABORATORIES""

""Museums""""Marine Biology Stations""; ""Biological Information""; ""CHAPTER ONE FRONTIERS OF BIOLOGY""; ""THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE""; ""The Genetic Material""; ""PROTEIN SYNTHESIS""; ""THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CELL""; ""The Energy for Cell Work""; ""PHOTOSYNTHESIS""; ""Metabolism""; ""METABOLIC PATHWAYS""; ""METABOLIC CONTROLS""; ""ACTIVE TRANSPORT""; ""ENZYMES""; ""SUBCELLULAR ORGANELLES""; ""Cell Division""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF AN ORGANISM""; ""Development of the Nervous System""; ""Plant Embryogenesis""; ""Animal Viruses""; ""FORM AND FUNCTION""; ""Muscular Contraction""

""THE CONSTANCY OF THE Milieu Interieur""""Endocrines""; ""PLANT AND INSECT HORMONES""; ""THE NERVOUS SYSTEM""; ""The Neuron""; ""SIGNALING IN NEURONS�THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION""; ""INITIATION OF IMPULSE ACTIVITY AT SENSE ORGANS""; ""The Central Nervous System""; ""SMALL BRAINS""; ""LARGER BRAINS""; ""INTERCALATED SYSTEMS: HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION""; ""BEHAVIOR""; ""Evolution, Inheritance, and the Development of Behavior""; ""Physiological Analysis of Behavior""; ""ORIENTATION AND HOMING""; ""Learning and Memory""; ""ECOLOGY""; ""Some Areas of Ecological Research""

""ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO INDIVIDUAL ORGANISMS""""THE ABUNDANCE OF LIVING THINGS""; ""SPECIES INTERACTIONS""; ""ENERGY FLOW IN ECOSYSTEMS""; ""STABILITY AND DIVERSITY""; ""THE ORIGIN OF LIFE""; ""HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION""; ""Population Genetics�An Extension of Mendelism""; ""Cytogenetics""; ""HUMAN CYTOGENETICS""; ""Polymorphism""; ""Some Recent Accomplishments""; ""THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE""; ""What Is a Species?""; ""Origins of Species""; ""Origin of Higher Groups""; ""Extinction""; ""Diversity and the Conceptual Framework of Biology""; ""CHAPTER TWO BIOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN""

""BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND MEDICAL PRACTICE""""The National Health""; ""Diagnosis, Disease, and Drugs""; ""SULFONAMIDES AND ANTIMETABOLITES""; ""ANTIBIOTICS""; ""VIRAL DISEASES""; ""CANCER THERAPY""; ""GOUT""; ""GENETIC DISEASES""; ""THE IMMUNE SYSTEM""; ""TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION""; ""CARDIAC DISORDERS""; ""Population Control""; ""The Early and Latter Years of Life""; ""ON FEEDING MAN""; ""Crop Yields""; ""GENETICS AND AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE""; ""Agricultural Practice""; ""Animal Science""; ""MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT""; ""Water Supplies""; ""Air""; ""Food and Drugs""; ""RENEWABLE RESOURCES""

""Role of Science in the Management of Renewable Resources""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

58594464