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9780691000428

The Logic of Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780691000428

  • ISBN10:

    0691000425

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-04-19
  • Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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Summary

InThe Logic of LifeFrançois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction The Programme 1(18)
The Visible Structure
19(55)
Generation
20(8)
Deciphering Nature
28(4)
Mechanism
32(12)
Species
44(8)
Preformation
52(15)
Heredity
67(7)
Organization
74(56)
Memory and Heredity
75(7)
The Hidden Architecture
82(6)
Life
88(4)
The Chemistry of Life
92(8)
The Plan of Organization
100(11)
The Cell
111(19)
Time
130(48)
Cataclysms
131(11)
Transformations
142(10)
Fossils
152(8)
Evolution
160(18)
The Gene
178(69)
Experimentation
180(12)
Statistical Analysis
192(9)
The Birth of Genetics
201(8)
The Dance of the Chromosomes
209(17)
Enzymes
226(21)
The Molecule
247(52)
Macromolecules
249(11)
Micro-organisms
260(7)
The Message
267(12)
Regulation
279(7)
Copy and Error
286(13)
Conclusion The Integron 299(26)
Notes 325(14)
Index 339

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