The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life

The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life by Michal Kurzynski.

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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Main Author: Kurzynski, Michal (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:The Frontiers Collection,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Biophysics.
Biological physics.
Organic chemistry.
Cell biology.
Biochemistry.
Thermodynamics.
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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.

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