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The Emergence of Life From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006Description: xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780521821179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.83 LUI-E
Contents:
Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth -- Approaches to the definitions of life -- Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this ... and not that? -- The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences -- Self-organization -- The notion of emergence -- Self-replication and self-reproduction -- Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life -- Compartments -- Reactivity and transformation of vesicles -- Approaches to the minimal cell.
Summary: "This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive stages of self-organization, emergence, self-replication, autopoiesis, synthetic compartments, and construction of cellular models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in complexity from inanimate matter to the first cellular life forms. A chapter is dedicated to each of these steps, using a number of synthetic and biological examples."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Book Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Gift or donation 576.83 LUI-E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GIFT BY DR. PAWAN K. DHAR DCBG-0023

Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on earth -- Approaches to the definitions of life -- Selection in prebiotic chemistry: why this ... and not that? -- The bottle neck: macromolecular sequences -- Self-organization -- The notion of emergence -- Self-replication and self-reproduction -- Autopoiesis: the logic of cellular life -- Compartments -- Reactivity and transformation of vesicles -- Approaches to the minimal cell.

"This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive stages of self-organization, emergence, self-replication, autopoiesis, synthetic compartments, and construction of cellular models, in order to demonstrate the spontaneous increase in complexity from inanimate matter to the first cellular life forms. A chapter is dedicated to each of these steps, using a number of synthetic and biological examples."--BOOK JACKET.

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