The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life
Living organisms are open thermodynamic systems whose functional structure has developed and been kinetically frozen during the historical process of biological evolution. A thermodynamics of both nonequilibrium and complex systems is needed for their description. In this book, the foundations of su...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2006.
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| Series: | The Frontiers Collection,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Biophysics: An Experimental Tool of Biology or the Physics of Animate Matter?
- Statistical Description of Matter
- Thermodynamic State
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Molecular Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell
- Chemical Reactions
- Enzymatic Catalysis
- Biological Free Energy Transduction
- Lack of Partial Thermodynamic Equilibrium
- Thermodynamic Supplement
- Stochastic Processes
- Structure of Biomolecules
- Dynamics of Biomolecules.
