Biological Complexity and the Dynamics of Life Processes, (New Comprehensive Biochemistry, Volume 34)

Jacques Ricard; G Bernardi

ISBN 10: 0444500812 / ISBN 13: 9780444500816

Published by Elsevier, Netherlands, 1999

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0444500812. Hardcover, from closed pharmaceutical company library. Lending record shows this book has never been borrowed. 372 pages, index, illustrated with charts, tables and diagrams. Appears unread, contents clean, tight and bright.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biological Complexity and the Dynamics of Life Processes, (New Comprehensive Biochemistry, Volume 34)
• Publisher: Elsevier, Netherlands
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444500812
• ISBN 13: 9780444500816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • biology

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Synopsis

The aim of this book is to show how supramolecular complexity of cell organization can dramatically alter the functions of individual macromolecules within a cell. The emergence of new functions which appear as a consequence of supramolecular complexity, is explained in terms of physical chemistry.The book is interdisciplinary, at the border between cell biochemistry, physics and physical chemistry. This interdisciplinarity does not result in the use of physical techniques but from the use of physical concepts to study biological problems.In the domain of complexity studies, most works are purely theoretical or based on computer simulation. The present book is partly theoretical, partly experimental and theory is always based on experimental results. Moreover, the book encompasses in a unified manner the dynamic aspects of many different biological fields ranging from dynamics to pattern emergence in a young embryo.The volume puts emphasis on dynamic physical studies of biological events. It also develops, in a unified perspective, this new interdisciplinary approach of various important problems of cell biology and chemistry, ranging from enzyme dynamics to pattern formation during embryo development, thus paving the way to what may become a central issue of future biology.