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1 online resource (xi, 184 pages) : illustrations (some color) Front Cover -- Biology of Life -- Biology of Life: Biochemistry, Physiology and Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I -- How Life Started -- 1 -- The Physics and Chemistry of Planet Earth -- THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE -- BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM -- BIRTH OF PLANET EARTH -- THE GEOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF PLANET EARTH -- REFERENCES -- 2 -- How Life Started -- REFERENCES -- 3 -- RNA, Ribozymes, and Early Life Forms -- REFERENCES -- 4 -- Amino Acids and Peptides, Essential Ingredients of Life -- REFERENCES -- 5 -- Biochemistry of Early Life -- REFERENCES -- 6 -- Evolutionary History of Planet Earth -- OXYGEN ATMOSPHERE -- PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS -- MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS -- REFERENCES -- 7 -- What Is Life? -- REFERENCES -- II -- DNA and RNA -- 8 -- The Evolution of DNA and the Genetic Code -- EVOLUTION OF DNA -- EVOLUTION OF THE GENETIC CODE -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 9 -- DNA Biology: DNA Replication, Transcription, and Translation -- REPLICATION -- TRANSCRIPTION -- MRNA SPLICING -- TRANSLATION OF MRNA -- GENES AND CHROMOSOMES -- FURTHER READING -- III -- Energetics -- 10 -- Adenosine Triphosphate Energetics -- OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION -- FEEDING PATHWAYS TO OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION -- USE OF ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE ENERGY -- ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE AND THE HEART -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND THE GENERATION OF OXYGEN AND ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE -- CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHESIS IN BACTERIA -- EVOLUTION OF ENERGETICS -- ENERGETICS AND LIFE -- REFERENCES -- 11 -- Adenosine Triphosphate Synthase -- FURTHER READING -- IV -- 4.5 Billion Years of Evolution -- 12 -- Evolution Timeline -- FURTHER READING -- 13 -- Evolution of Chemical, Prokaryotic, and Eukaryotic Life -- CHEMICAL LIFE -- PROKARYOTIC LIFE -- EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION FROM PROKARYOTES -- EUKARYOTIC LIFE -- FURTHER READING. 14 -- Animal Evolution, Small Brain and Advanced Brain -- ANIMAL AND MAMMAL EVOLUTION -- SMALL BRAIN ANIMALS -- ADVANCED BRAIN ANIMALS -- FURTHER READING -- 15 -- The Evolution of Humans -- THE HUMAN BRAIN -- BIPEDALISM -- REFERENCES -- 16 -- Human Development -- LANGUAGE -- HUMAN PSEUDOEVOLUTION -- REFERENCES -- V -- Human Development -- 17 -- Human Female Oogenesis -- OOGENESIS -- OVULATION -- LUTEOGENESIS -- REFERENCE -- FURTHER READING -- 18 -- Human Male Spermatogenesis -- MITOTIC PROLIFERATION -- MEIOTIC DIVISION -- Cytodifferentiation and Packaging of Sperm Cells -- Endocrine Control of Spermatogenesis -- Maturation of Spermatozoa -- Seminal Fluids -- FURTHER READING -- 19 -- Sperm Activation, Fertilization, Morula, Blastocyst Formation, and Twinning -- SPERM ACTIVATION -- SPERMATOZOA CAPACITATION -- SPERMATOZOA ACROSOME REACTION -- OVUM PROPULSION -- FERTILIZATION -- MORULA AND BLASTOCYST FORMATION -- TWINNING -- FURTHER READING -- 20 -- Multiple Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Molecules -- FIVE OR SIX COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT HCG MOLECULES -- REFERENCES -- 21 -- Implantation and Pregnancy Failure -- IMPLANTATION -- PREGNANCY FAILURE -- REFERENCES -- 22 -- Hemochorial Placentation -- REFERENCES -- 23 -- Human Life, Development of the Human Brain -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- 24 -- Human Life -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover. Laurence A. Cole. Includes bibliographical references and index. Biology Philosophy NATURE Reference SCIENCE Life Sciences Biology SCIENCE Life Sciences General Biology Philosophy QH331 570.1 Cole, Laurence A. London, United Kingdom : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2016] (OCoLC)950450252 0128096861 9780128096864 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128096857 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128096857 IDEBK 160729 20190328114815.0 ocn954195240 eng