From The Atoms To Living Systems
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From The Atom To Living Systems
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Author : Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-17
From The Atom To Living Systems written by Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with Education categories.
From the Atom to Living Systems represents an original historico-epistemological approach to follow the passage, in the microscopic analysis of reality, from the atomic to the molecular to the macromolecular levels and then to the threshold of life itself. Naturally, some parts of this journey have been developed in other works, some highly specialized and others of a more general nature. However, although this journey has often been traced in specialized scientific detail, the philosophical implications of the journey have not been discussed to any satisfactory degree. This scientific journey does have important philosophical consequences that constitute an integral part of this book, which is framed within the perspective of systems science and the so-called sciences of complexity, which are areas fundamental to 21st century science. In fact, the possibility of studying and understanding the material world through levels of complexity opens a great philosophical space that proposes to provide systemic and complex explanations, rather than reductive accounts that pretend to explain all phenomena through the interactions of elementary particles while considering all phenomena implicit and deterministic. The systemic and complex approach implies substituting unique bottom-up explanations, which move exclusively from the microscopically simple to the macroscopically complex, with a series of explanations that are horizontal within planes of complexity, vertically bottom up between various levels of complexity, vertically top-down, as well as circular in a manner that renders all levels of reality and the disciplines that study them as both autonomous and interconnected.
From The Atom To Living Systems
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Author : Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
From The Atom To Living Systems written by Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Chemistry categories.
"The philosophical vision of the world and the consequent methodology behind the book are clarified. The perspective used is the systemic one, but since today this term has assumed a wide and diversified meaning in the literature, this introduction will clarify the specific meaning of our approach, starting from the meaning of the term "system". Our idea of system is based on three key assertions that may seem contradictory, but are necessary and complementary to its definition. In particular, we considered the usual idea that the system is more and less than the sum of its juxtaposed parts, highlighting the role of emergencies and constraints. In our idea of a system, however, we must consider a third fundamental characteristic: its dynamism, the dual nature of the system as an entity and as a process, its role as a "dynamic entity". Afterwards, the holistic and reductionist approaches were analysed in detail, and both the specific merits and the fact that these two opposing worldviews, considered individually, cannot give a complete and balanced description of reality, were taken into account. For us, only the systemic approach provides a balanced description of both the parts and the whole and must, therefore, be preferred. Finally, the differences between our approach and the approaches mentioned above have been considered in detail in this introduction"--
Elements In Living Organisms
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Author : Suzanne Slade
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2006-07-15
Elements In Living Organisms written by Suzanne Slade and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explore the four elements carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen that are the major building blocks of life on Earth.
Molecular And Biological Physics Of Living Systems
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Author : R.K. Mishra
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Molecular And Biological Physics Of Living Systems written by R.K. Mishra and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
The living organisms and systems possess extraordinary properties of programmed development, differentiation, growth, response, movement, duplication of key molecules and in m any cases higher mental functions. But the organisms are physical objects so they must follow laws of physics yet they do not seem to obey them. Physicists cannot easily persuade themselves to accept this as finally true. Non-living objects are governed by these laws of physics and they can explain these properties. However, in the living systems too phenomena encountered like coupled non-linear interactions, manybody effects, cooperativity, coherence, phase transitions, reversible metastable states are being understood better with the aid of powerful theoretical and experimental techniques and hope is raised that these may let us understand the mysteriousness of life. Contributors to this volume are a small fraction of rapidly growing scientific opinion that these aspects of living bodies are to be expected in a hitherto inadequately suspected state of matter which is in the main directed by these physical properties pushed almost to limit. This state of matter, the living matter, deserves to be called The Living State. Mishra proposes that given hydrogenic orbitals, atoms showing easy hybridisability and multiple valances, molecules with low-lying electronic levels, "loosestructure", and a metabolic pump in thermodynamically open system, various fundamental properties of living state can emerge automatically. Structurally these are all known to be present.
Biology
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Author : Oram
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Release Date : 1997-03
Biology written by Oram and has been published by McGraw-Hill/Glencoe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03 with Science categories.
Biology text book that focus on the nature of biology, energy and the cell, The continuation of life, Evolutionary relationships, life functions of organisims, controlling living systems, and Interactions in the environment
Periodic Tables Unifying Living Organisms At The Molecular Level The Predictive Power Of The Law Of Periodicity
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Author : Lima-de-faria Antonio
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2017-11-08
Periodic Tables Unifying Living Organisms At The Molecular Level The Predictive Power Of The Law Of Periodicity written by Lima-de-faria Antonio and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-08 with Science categories.
The DNA sequencing of a series of living organisms has elucidated many biological problems. But the internal atomic and electronic evolution of DNA remains to be mapped in detail. RNA and DNA now appear to be the prime determinants of biological evolution leading to the sudden appearance of novel organism structures and functions that emerge "ready made" as a surprise to the organism. This has been demonstrated by the manipulation of genes that led to the sudden production of additional complete wings and legs in flies and birds. The study of this internal atomic construction of macromolecules is being investigated at the large electron accelerators such as the MAX IV Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden. The periodicity of the chemical elements is well known from its iconic Table. Significantly, this periodicity can now be seen to extend to the properties of living organisms. Biological properties as different as: flight, vision, luminescence and regeneration, as well as others, show unexpectedly periodic emergence. They resurface, without previous announcement, in most unrelated plant and animal families and they emerge irrespective of whether the organism is a simple invertebrate or a most complex mammal. Moreover, this periodicity does not necessarily start at the cell or DNA levels but appears initially in crystals and minerals, where it is shown to be a pure atomic and electronic process, e.g. in luminescence and regeneration. The assembled molecular evidence led to the construction of Periodic Tables of living organisms, placing them in a position comparable to the periodicity of the chemical elements. Surprisingly, there are striking resemblances between the periodicities of the chemical elements and those of living organisms. In addition, the two types of Tables increase our insight into the events directing atomic evolution since the periodic law established in chemical elements turns out to be applicable to the periodicity of living organisms. The new Periodic Tables introduce a predictive capacity in biological evolution that before was hardly contemplated. Contents: Biological Evolution is Now Being Studied at the Level of Elementary ParticlesThe Unexpected Surge of Periodicity Among Plants and Animals is Anchored to that of Elementary Particles and Chemical ElementsCarnivory in Plants is Not a "Paradoxical Event" but is Due to the Expression of Specific Genes and Chemical Modifications of DNALuminescence Occurs from Minerals to Fish but not Beyond. It is Both an Electronic and a Genetic EventPlacenta in Plants and in Animals. Its Punctuated Emergence is Decided by Common GenesPenis Evolution from Worms to Humans — A Double Penis Occurs in Most Unrelated SpeciesRegeneration Starts in Crystals, Expands in Plants, but Slows Down in Higher VertebratesThe Eye, the Main Organ of Vision, has had an Ordered Evolution Guided By Self-AssemblyFlight in Air, an Explosive Event Throughout Invertebrates and VertebratesHigh Mental Ability has Resurged Without Previous AnnouncementThe Structural and Functional Similarity Between Marsupials and Placentals has Its Roots in the Plant and Mineral WorldsThe Periodic Tables Lead to a Law of Biological Periodicity which has Predictive Power Readership: Researchers in life science, general public. Keywords: Chemical Periodicity;Biological Periodicity;DNA EvolutionReview: Key Features: This book contains a unique treatment of periodicity at the biological level and of DNA's own atomic evolution
Molecular And Biological Physics Of Living Systems
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Author : R K Mishra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-09-30
Molecular And Biological Physics Of Living Systems written by R K Mishra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-30 with categories.
Physical Biology
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Author : Ahmed H. Zewail
language : en
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Release Date : 2008
Physical Biology written by Ahmed H. Zewail and has been published by Imperial College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
This title brings about the confluence of various concepts and tools to address significant problems of our time in physical biology and adjacent disciplines.
Imaging Life
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Author : Gary C. Howard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-30
Imaging Life written by Gary C. Howard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with Science categories.
This volume provides an overview of a variety of approaches to biological image analysis, which allow for the study of living organisms at all levels of complexity and organization. These organisms range from individual macromolecules to subcellular and cellular volumes, tissues and microbial communities. Such a "systems biology" understanding of life requires the combination of a variety of imaging techniques, and with it an in-depth understanding of their respective strengths and limitations, as well as their intersection with other techniques. Howard, Brown, and Auer show us that the integration of these imaging techniques will allow us to overcome the reductionist approach to biology that dominated the twentieth century, which was aimed at examining the physical and chemical properties of life's constituents, one macromolecule at a time. However, while based on the laws of physics and chemistry, life is not simply a set of chemical reactions and physical forces; it features an exquisite spatiotemporal organization that allows an inconceivably large number of chemical processes to coexist, refined by billions of years of evolutionary experimentation. And yet, many fundamental questions remain largely unanswered; Imaging Life argues that we are just now beginning to address the spatiotemporal organizational component of living processes. "Imaging" is needed in order to reveal the spatiotemporal relationships between components, and thus to understand organizational guiding principles of living systems. Only through imaging will we be able to decipher the mechanisms and the marvelous organization that enable and sustain the mystery of life. Imaging Life shows us how biology is beginning to do just that.
From Atoms Toward Living Systems
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Author : Arthur Robert Von Hippel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
From Atoms Toward Living Systems written by Arthur Robert Von Hippel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Matter categories.