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Oxygen and the evolution of life
Title statement Oxygen and the evolution of life / Heinz Decker, Kensal E. van Holde Personal name Decker, Heinz, 1928-2014 (author) Publication Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2011] Copyright notice date ©2011 Phys.des. 1 online zdroj (xi, 172 stran) : ilustrace ISBN 9783642131790 (online ; pdf) 3642131794 Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík Contents Oxygen, Its Nature and Chemistry: What Is so Special About This Element? -- A Brief History of Oxygen -- Coping with Oxygen -- Aerobic Metabolism: Benefits from an Oxygenated World -- Facilitated Oxygen Transport -- Climate Over the Ages; Is the Environment Stable? -- Global Warming: Human Intervention in World Climate -- Oxygen in Medicine -- Oxygen and the Exploration of the Universe. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web Defekty eBooks on EBSCOhost Another responsib. Van Holde, K. E. (Kensal Edward), 1928- (author) Subj. Headings paleoklimatologie paleoclimatology * chemie atmosféry atmospheric chemistry * kyslík oxygen * evoluce (biologie) evolution (biology) * fyzikální geologie physical geology Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect 551 - Geologie. Meteorologie. Klimatologie UDC 551.510.41 , 56:551.58 , 551.1/.4 , 575.8 , 546.21 , (0.034.2:08) Country Německo ; Spojené státy americké Language angličtina Document kind Electronic sources URL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=372026 book
This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many anaerobes. Others found ways to deal with the toxic reactive oxygen species and even developed a much more efficient oxygen-based metabolism. The authors vividly describe how the introduction of O2 al.
Oxygen, Its Nature and Chemistry: What Is so Special About This Element? -- A Brief History of Oxygen -- Coping with Oxygen -- Aerobic Metabolism: Benefits from an Oxygenated World -- Facilitated Oxygen Transport -- Climate Over the Ages; Is the Environment Stable? -- Global Warming: Human Intervention in World Climate -- Oxygen in Medicine -- Oxygen and the Exploration of the Universe.
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