Offering an inside look into the world around us, microbiologist Franklin M. Harold makes life intelligible for readers interested in biology. The book traces living things and how they operate, focusing on questions about the interaction between physics, chemistry, and biology.
Offering an inside look into the world around us, microbiologist Franklin M. Harold makes life intelligible for readers interested in biology. The book traces living things and how they operate, focusing on questions about the interaction between physics, chemistry, and biology.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Franklin M . Harold is Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Colorado State University and Affiliate Professor of microbiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Born in Germany but raised in the Middle East, he moved to the United States and studied chemistry at the City College of New York. After obtaining his BS, he completed a PhD in comparative biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. He has taught and conducted research for over forty years, mostly in Colorado. Now retired, he remains engaged with science as a writer and lecturer. He is the author of four books, most recently: In Search of Cell History (2014) and his autobiography, To Make the World Intelligible (2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Nature of Living Things Chapter 1: Strange Objects Chapter 2: Living Cells, Lifeless Molecules Chapter 3: Life Makes Itself Chapter 4: Putting the Cell in Order Part II: The Web That Weaves Itself Chapter 5: The Darwinian Outlook Chapter 6: Evolution of the Cell Chapter 7: The Perennial Riddle of Life's Origin Part III: The Gyre of Complexity Chapter 8: The Expansion of Life Chapter 9: The Tangled Bank Chapter 10: From Egg to Organism Chapter 11: The Outer Banks of Order Epilogue: Comprehensive, but Complex and Perplexing Glossary Notes References Index
Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Nature of Living Things Chapter 1: Strange Objects Chapter 2: Living Cells, Lifeless Molecules Chapter 3: Life Makes Itself Chapter 4: Putting the Cell in Order Part II: The Web That Weaves Itself Chapter 5: The Darwinian Outlook Chapter 6: Evolution of the Cell Chapter 7: The Perennial Riddle of Life's Origin Part III: The Gyre of Complexity Chapter 8: The Expansion of Life Chapter 9: The Tangled Bank Chapter 10: From Egg to Organism Chapter 11: The Outer Banks of Order Epilogue: Comprehensive, but Complex and Perplexing Glossary Notes References Index
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