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Biofundamentals 2.0
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klymkowsky, Michael W., author.
- Cooper, Melanie M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Textbooks.
- Science.
- Biology--Textbooks.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado Michael Klymkowsky, Melanie Cooper [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Our goal is to present the key observations andunifying concepts upon which modern biology isbased; it is not a survey of all biology! Onceunderstood, these foundational observations andconcepts should enable you to approach any biologicalprocess, from disease to kindness, from a scientificperspective. To understand biological systems we need toconsider them from two complementary perspectives;how they came to be (the historic, that is, evolutionary) and how their structures, traits, and behaviors areproduced (the mechanistic, that is, the physicochemical).
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Understanding science & thinking scientifically
- Chapter 2: Life's diversity and origins
- Chapter 3: Evolutionary mechanisms and the diversity of life
- Chapter 4: Social evolution and sexual selection
- Chapter 5: Molecular interactions, thermodynamics & reaction coupling
- Chapter 6: Membrane boundaries and capturing energy
- Chapter 7: The molecular nature of heredity
- Chapter 8: Peptide bonds, polypeptides and proteins
- Chapter 9: Genomes, genes, and regulatory networks
- Chapter 10: Social systems
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource
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