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Beginning with a new essay, "Levels of Life and Death," Tibor Gánti develops three general arguments about the nature of life. In "The Nature of the Living State," Professor Gánti answers Francis Crick's puzzles about "life itself," offering a set of reflections on...

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Huvudupphovsman: Gánti, Tibor
Övriga upphovsmän: Tibor Gánti with commentary by James Griesemer and Eors Szathmáry
Språk:Undetermined
English
Publicerad: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Sammanfattning:Beginning with a new essay, "Levels of Life and Death," Tibor Gánti develops three general arguments about the nature of life. In "The Nature of the Living State," Professor Gánti answers Francis Crick's puzzles about "life itself," offering a set of reflections on the parameters of the problems to be solved in origins of life research and, more broadly, in the search for principles governing the living state in general. "The Principle of Life" describes in accessible language Gánti's chief insight about the organization of living systems-his theory of the "chemoton," or chemical automaton. The simplest chemoton model of the living state consists of three chemically coupled subsystems: an autocatalytic metabolism, a genetic molecule and a membrane
Fysisk beskrivning:201 p.
ill.
27 cm
Bibliografi:Includes bibliographical references (p.194-201)
ISBN:0198507267
9780198507260