• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Biofundamentals 2.0
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Klymkowsky, Michael W. [Author]; Cooper, Melanie M. [Author]
  • Corporation: Open Textbook Library
  • Published: Boulder, Colorado: Michael Klymkowsky, Melanie Cooper, [2015]
  • Published in: Open textbook library
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Science Textbooks ; Biology Textbooks
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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)
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)