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Biology of Life
Biochemistry, Physiology and Philosophy

Provides key insights into the origins of biochemical systems, such as biochemical energetics and the evolution of DNA and RNA

Laurence A. Cole (Author)

9780128096857

Paperback, published 25 July 2016

196 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.34 kg

Approx.184 pages

Section I. How Life Started

Chapter 1. The Physics and Chemistry of Planet Earth

Chapter 2. How Life Started

Chapter 3. RNA, Ribozymes, and Early Life Forms

Chapter 4. Amino Acids and Peptides, Essential Ingredients of Life

Chapter 5. Biochemistry of Early Life

Chapter 6. Evolutionary History of Planet Earth

Chapter 7. What Is Life?

Section II. DNA and RNA

Chapter 8. The Evolution of DNA and the Genetic Code

Chapter 9. DNA Biology: DNA Replication, Transcription, and Translation

Section III. Energetics

Chapter 10. Adenosine Triphosphate Energetics

Chapter 11. Adenosine Triphosphate Synthase

Section IV. 4.5 Billion Years of Evolution

Chapter 12. Evolution Timeline

Chapter 13. Evolution of Chemical, Prokaryotic, and Eukaryotic Life

Chapter 14. Animal Evolution, Small Brain and Advanced Brain

Chapter 15. The Evolution of Humans

Chapter 16. Human Development

Section V. Human Development

Chapter 17. Human Female Oogenesis

Chapter 18. Human Male Spermatogenesis

Chapter 19. Sperm Activation, Fertilization, Morula, Blastocyst Formation, and Twinning

Chapter 20. Multiple Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Molecules

Chapter 21. Implantation and Pregnancy Failure

Chapter 22. Hemochorial Placentation

Chapter 23. Human Life, Development of the Human Brain

Chapter 24. Human Life

Subject Areas: Developmental biology [PSC]

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