Triplet Genetic Code, The : Key To Living Organisms.
The purpose of this book is to bring to interested readers (professionals and laypersons alike) an appreciation and a basic understanding of what the genetic code is and why it has come to revolutionize thinking about living systems as a whole. The consequences of this revolution in molecular biolog...
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- COPYRIGHT PERMISSION FOR FIGURES
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. WHAT IS LIFE?
- 3. THE NUCLEIC ACIDS DNA AND RNA
- 4. PROTEINS -THE MOLECULES OF LIFE
- 5. PINNING DOWN THE CODE
- 6. DESCRIPTION OF THE GENETIC TRIPLET CODE
- 7. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GENETIC CODE
- 8. A PHYSICAL APPROACH TO GENETIC ORIGINS
- 8.1 Codon Bias in Viral Genes - A Thermodynamic Theory
- 8.2 Cluster Analysis in Codon Space
- 8.3 The Tetrahedral Representation of Codon Space
- 9. REDUCTIONISM VERSUS HOLISM
- 10. CULTURAL AND MATERIAL IMPACTS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
- GLOSSARY
- APPENDIX A. PEPTIDE BONDS AND PROTEIN STRUCTURE
- APPENDIX B. PROCEDURE FOR INTRODUCING A METRIC FREE DISTRIBUTION OF POINTS IN CODON SPACE
- APPENDIX C. FUN WITH TETRAHEDRA
- APPENDIX D. GENETIC ENGINEERING
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.