This fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest developments in DNA and protein synthesis, cell regulation, and their social and medical implications.
Looking at biochemistry, this book discusses its methods and finds, including theories which approach the origins of life on earth and techniques which help to explain viruses and create pharmacological cures.
This new edition includes an Epilogue describing developments in the concepts of fundamental forms of stability discussed in the book, and their profound implications.
In this book, the authors describe the long journey from formless inanimate matter to man, explaining the nature and the logic of the physical-chemical processes involved.
For anyone with a background in general chemistry.
Strikingly, he demonstrates that Darwinian evolution is the biological expression of a deeper and more fundamental chemical principle: the whole story from replicating molecules to complex life is one continuous coherent chemical process ...
This volume contains the lectures presented at the second course of the International School of Space Chemistry held in Erice (Sicily) from October 20 - 30 1991 at the "E. Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture".
Classical information theory presupposes that the transmission of information is based on a purely one-way “Laplacian” deterministic transfer mechanism whereby the instruction encoded in a one-dimensional (“linear”) digital information ...
This solutions manual contains fully-worked solutions to all end-of-chapter discussion questions and exercises featured in 'Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences.
This book is designed for students of biology, molecular biology, ecology, medicine, agriculture, forestry and other professions where the knowledge of organic chemistry plays the important role.