Biofundamentals 2.0
Klymkowsky, Michael W.
Biofundamentals 2.0 Michael Klymkowsky - 1 online resource - Open textbook library. .
Chapter 1: Understanding science & thinking scientifically -- Chapter 2: Life's diversity and origins -- Chapter 3: Evolutionary mechanisms and the diversity of life -- Chapter 4: Social evolution and sexual selection -- Chapter 5: Molecular interactions, thermodynamics & reaction coupling -- Chapter 6: Membrane boundaries and capturing energy -- Chapter 7: The molecular nature of heredity -- Chapter 8: Peptide bonds, polypeptides and proteins -- Chapter 9: Genomes, genes, and regulatory networks -- Chapter 10: Social systems
Our goal is to present the key observations andunifying concepts upon which modern biology isbased; it is not a survey of all biology! Onceunderstood, these foundational observations andconcepts should enable you to approach any biologicalprocess, from disease to kindness, from a scientificperspective. To understand biological systems we need toconsider them from two complementary perspectives;how they came to be (the historic, that is, evolutionary) and how their structures, traits, and behaviors areproduced (the mechanistic, that is, the physicochemical).
In English.
Science--Textbooks
Biology--Textbooks
QH301 QH308.2
Biofundamentals 2.0 Michael Klymkowsky - 1 online resource - Open textbook library. .
Chapter 1: Understanding science & thinking scientifically -- Chapter 2: Life's diversity and origins -- Chapter 3: Evolutionary mechanisms and the diversity of life -- Chapter 4: Social evolution and sexual selection -- Chapter 5: Molecular interactions, thermodynamics & reaction coupling -- Chapter 6: Membrane boundaries and capturing energy -- Chapter 7: The molecular nature of heredity -- Chapter 8: Peptide bonds, polypeptides and proteins -- Chapter 9: Genomes, genes, and regulatory networks -- Chapter 10: Social systems
Our goal is to present the key observations andunifying concepts upon which modern biology isbased; it is not a survey of all biology! Onceunderstood, these foundational observations andconcepts should enable you to approach any biologicalprocess, from disease to kindness, from a scientificperspective. To understand biological systems we need toconsider them from two complementary perspectives;how they came to be (the historic, that is, evolutionary) and how their structures, traits, and behaviors areproduced (the mechanistic, that is, the physicochemical).
In English.
Science--Textbooks
Biology--Textbooks
QH301 QH308.2