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ABOUT LIFE
About Life
Concepts in Modern Biology
by
PAUL S. AGUTTER
Theoretical and Cell Biology Consultancy,
Glossop, Derbyshire, U.K.
and
DENYS N. WHEATLEY
BioMedES, Inverurie,
Aberdeenshire, U.K.
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A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 1-4020-5417-3 (HB)
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5417-4 (HB)
ISBN-10 1-4020-5418-1 (e-book)
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5418-1 (e-book)
Published by Springer,
P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
www.springer.com
Printed on acid-free paper
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© 2007 Springer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface .................................................................................................... vii
1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 1
2 . Ingredients of the simplest cells ........................................................ 7
( Prokaryotes and the sizes of their contents )
3. Bigger cells ..................................................................................... 17
( Eukaryotic cells and their contents )
4. Hives of industry ............................................................................. 29
( A survey of intermediary metabolism )
5. Delights of transport . ...................................................................... 39
( How the cell’s contents are moved around )
6. As if standing still ........................................................................... 49
( Cellular homeostasis and regulatory processes )
7. Internal state and gene expression .................................................. 57
( Transcription and its control )
8. Sustaining and changing the internal state ...................................... 67
9. Responding to the environment ..................................................... 79
( Signal processing, gene expression and internal state )
( The interrelationship between gene expression and the cell’s
current composition and functional state )

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