Introducing Biological Energetics - How Energy and Information Control the Living World

Informationen zum Autor Norman Cheetham has extensive science teaching experience at Secondary School, Teachers' College and University level. He has contributed chapters to three science text books used in Australian Secondary Schools, and developed the chemistry sections of a set of overhead projector-based teaching materials. Until retirement, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry, the University of NSW, Sydney, where he taught courses in food chemistry, polymer chemistry, carbohydrates, drug analysis, and instrumental techniques. He is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and is still involved in teaching and research. Klappentext This novel, interdisciplinary text presents biological understanding in terms of general underlying principles, treating energy as the overarching theme and emphasizing the all-pervading influence of energy transformation in every process, both living and non-living. Zusammenfassung This novel, interdisciplinary text presents biological understanding in terms of general underlying principles, treating energy as the overarching theme and emphasizing the all-pervading influence of energy transformation in every process, both living and non-living.

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• Autori: Norman W. H. Cheetham, Norman W.h. Cheetham
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.12.2010
• EAN: 9780199593712
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959371-2
• Pagine: 368
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Biochimica, biofisica; Physiologie, Biochemie, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (see also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Biophysics, Animal Ecology, Animal Physiology, Zoology and animal sciences, Chemical biology, Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics, Thermochemistry and chemical thermodynamics