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Comprehensive biochemistry.
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ISBN: 0444409505 9781483193168 1483193160 1322334552 9780444409508 Year: 1971 Volume: 18S Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier Publishing Company,

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Pyruvate and Fatty Acid Metabolism


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Cradle of life : the discovery of earth's earliest fossils
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ISBN: 0691237573 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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One of the greatest mysteries in reconstructing the history of life on Earth has been the apparent absence of fossils dating back more than 550 million years. We have long known that fossils of sophisticated marine life-forms existed at the dawn of the Cambrian Period, but until recently scientists had found no traces of Precambrian fossils. The quest to find such traces began in earnest in the mid-1960s and culminated in one dramatic moment in 1993 when William Schopf identified fossilized microorganisms three and a half billion years old. This startling find opened up a vast period of time--some eighty-five percent of Earth's history--to new research and new ideas about life's beginnings. In this book, William Schopf, a pioneer of modern paleobiology, tells for the first time the exciting and fascinating story of the origins and earliest evolution of life and how that story has been unearthed. Gracefully blending his personal story of discovery with the basics needed to understand the astonishing science he describes, Schopf has produced an introduction to paleobiology for the interested reader as well as a primer for beginning students in the field. He considers such questions as how did primitive bacteria, pond scum, evolve into the complex life-forms found at the beginning of the Cambrian Period? How do scientists identify ancient microbes and what do these tiny creatures tell us about the environment of the early Earth? (And, in a related chapter, Schopf discusses his role in the controversy that swirls around recent claims of fossils in the famed meteorite from Mars.) Like all great teachers, Schopf teaches the non-specialist enough about his subject along the way that we can easily follow his descriptions of the geology, biology, and chemistry behind these discoveries. Anyone interested in the intriguing questions of the origins of life on Earth and how those origins have been discovered will find this story the best place to start.

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Evolutionary paleobiology. --- Micropaleontology. --- Life --- Paleontology --- Origin. --- Abiogenesis. --- Acritarch. --- Addition. --- Aerobic organism. --- Amino acid. --- Archaea. --- Archean. --- Autotroph. --- Bacteria. --- Beijing Zoo. --- Burgess Shale. --- Carbon dioxide. --- Cell wall. --- Charles Darwin. --- Charles Doolittle Walcott. --- Chert. --- Chloroplast. --- Chromosome. --- Coelom. --- Coffin. --- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. --- Crust (geology). --- Cyanobacteria. --- Darwin's Dilemma. --- Determination. --- Deuterium. --- Electricity. --- Enzyme. --- Eukaryote. --- Evolution. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Fermentation. --- Foraminifera. --- Fungus. --- Gene. --- Genetic engineering. --- Geologist. --- Geology. --- Giant salamander. --- Glucose. --- Glycine. --- Glycolysis. --- Greenhouse effect. --- Hallucigenia. --- Heterocyst. --- Heterotroph. --- Hydrocarbon. --- Interstellar cloud. --- Law of superposition. --- Layperson. --- Lipid. --- Marine biology. --- Metabolism. --- Meteorite. --- Microorganism. --- Microwave. --- Mitochondrion. --- Mitosis. --- Molecule. --- Monomer. --- Mycoplasma. --- Natural gas. --- Nitrate. --- Nitrogen. --- Nucleic acid. --- Nucleotide. --- Organic acid. --- Organic compound. --- Organism. --- Ottoia. --- Paleobiology. --- Paleontology. --- Paleozoic. --- Phanerozoic. --- Photosynthesis. --- Phototroph. --- Plant. --- Plate tectonics. --- Polymer. --- Precambrian. --- Prokaryote. --- Properties of water. --- Protein. --- Proterozoic. --- Protozoa. --- Purple bacteria. --- Pyruvic acid. --- Ribosome. --- Richard Feynman. --- Sedimentary rock. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Stromatolite. --- Sulfate minerals. --- Taxon. --- Tempo and Mode in Evolution. --- Thioformaldehyde. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Trilobite. --- Zygote.


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Biochemical Adaptation
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ISBN: 0691612633 1400855411 0691083444 0691083436 9781400855414 9780691083438 9780691083445 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This book discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 1,000 times that at sea level.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Adaptation (Physiology) --- Biochemistry. --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Composition --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Ecophysiology --- Biochemistry --- 57.017.32 --- 575.826 --- 575.826 Adaptation --- Adaptation --- Biologische wetenschappen in het algemeen. Biologie--?.017.32 --- 6-bisphosphatase. --- ATPase. --- Acid–base homeostasis. --- Adenosine monophosphate. --- Alanine. --- Alcohol dehydrogenase. --- Amino acid. --- Aminooxyacetic acid. --- Anabolism. --- Anaerobic glycolysis. --- Antifreeze. --- Arginine. --- Basal rate. --- Beta oxidation. --- Bohr effect. --- Carbohydrate. --- Carnitine. --- Catabolism. --- Catalase. --- Catalysis. --- Cellular respiration. --- Cofactor (biochemistry). --- Competitive inhibition. --- Cooperativity. --- Deep sea. --- Dehydrogenase. --- Detergent. --- Dissociation constant. --- Enzyme Repression. --- Enzyme inhibitor. --- Enzyme. --- Facultative anaerobic organism. --- Fatty acid. --- Fermentation. --- Flavin adenine dinucleotide. --- Fructose 1. --- Futile cycle. --- Glucagon. --- Gluconeogenesis. --- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. --- Glucose. --- Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase. --- Glycerol. --- Glycogen phosphorylase. --- Glycogen. --- Glycogenolysis. --- Glycolysis. --- Hemoglobin. --- Hibernation. --- High-energy phosphate. --- Hill equation (biochemistry). --- Histidine. --- Hofmeister series. --- Hormone-sensitive lipase. --- Insulin. --- Isozyme. --- Ketosis. --- Lactic acid. --- Lipid. --- Lipolysis. --- Lysine. --- Mammalian diving reflex. --- Metabolic intermediate. --- Metabolism. --- Michaelis–Menten kinetics. --- Mitochondrial matrix. --- Mitochondrion. --- Molecular mimicry. --- Muscle. --- Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. --- Obligate anaerobe. --- Obligate. --- Organism. --- Ornithine. --- Osmolyte. --- Oxidative deamination. --- Peroxidase. --- Phosphagen. --- Phosphofructokinase. --- Phospholipid. --- Phosphorylase kinase. --- Proline. --- Proofreading (biology). --- Protein turnover. --- Protein. --- Proteolysis. --- Pyruvate carboxylase. --- Pyruvic acid. --- Redox. --- Regulatory enzyme. --- Root effect. --- Substrate-level phosphorylation. --- Thermoregulation. --- Thermus aquaticus. --- Thermus thermophilus. --- Triglyceride. --- Tryptophan. --- Turnover number. --- Urea cycle. --- Urea.

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