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First life
Title statement First life : discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began / David Deamer Personal name Deamer, D. W. (author) Publication Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011] Copyright notice date ©2011 Phys.des. 1 online zdroj (ix, 271 stran) : ilustrace ISBN 9780520948952 (online ; pdf) 0520948955 Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík Contents A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : life in the fast lane -- Copying life's blueprints -- How evolution begins -- A grand simulation of prebiotic earth -- Prospects for synthetic life. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web Defekty eBooks on EBSCOhost Subj. Headings astrobiologie astrobiology * evoluce (biologie) evolution (biology) * environmentální aspekty environmental aspects Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect 57 - Obecná biologie UDC 573.5 , 502/504 , 575.8 , (0.034.2:08) Country Kalifornie Language angličtina Document kind Electronic sources URL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=367500 book
This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds. Deamer argues that life began as systems of molecules that assembled into membrane-bound packages.
A fireball over Australia -- Where did life begin? -- When did life begin? -- Carbon and the building blocks of life -- The handedness of life -- Energy and life's origins -- Self-assembly and emergence -- How to build a cell -- Achieving complexity -- Multiple strands of life -- Catalysts : life in the fast lane -- Copying life's blueprints -- How evolution begins -- A grand simulation of prebiotic earth -- Prospects for synthetic life.
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