Proteins, enzymes, genes the interplay of chemistry and biology /
In this book a distinguished scientist-historian offers a critical account of how biochemistry and molecular biology emerged as major scientific disciplines from the interplay of chemical and biological ideas and practice. Joseph S. Fruton traces the historical development of these disciplines from...
| Main Author: | Fruton, Joseph S. 1912-2007. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
[1999]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 783 pages) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 1.
- On the History of Scientific Disciplines
- 2.
- Institutional Settings
- 3.
- Philosophy, Chemistry, and Biology
- 4.
- From Ferments to Enzymes
- 5.
- Nature and Function of Proteins
- 6.
- Chemical Energy of Biological Systems
- 7.
- Pathways of Biochemical Change
- 8.
- Chemical Basis of Heredity
- 9.
- Whole and Its Parts.