The music of life: biology beyond the genome
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1. Verfasser: Noble, Denis (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146) and index
Introduction; 1. The CD of Life: the Genome; 2. The Organ of 30,000 Pipes; 3. The Score: is it Written Down?; 4. The Conductor: Downward Causation; 5. The Rhythm Section: the Heartbeat and other Rhythms; 6. The Orchestra: Organs and Systems of the Body; 7. Modes and Keys: Cellular Harmony; 8. The Composer: Evolution; 9. The Opera Theatre: the Brain; 10. Curtain Call: the Artist Disappears; Bibliography; Index
What is Life? This is the question asked by Denis Noble in this very personal and at times deeply lyrical book. Noble is a renowned physiologist and systems biologist, and he argues that the genome is not life itself: to understand what life is, we must view it at a variety of different levels, all interacting with each other in a complex web. It is that emergent web, full of feedback between levels, from the gene to the wider environment, that is life. - ;What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are o
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