Biochemistry

Accompanied by an integrated biochemical interactions CD, this text explains biochemical concepts while offering a unified presentation of life and its variation through evolution. It incorporates classical and current research to illustrate the historical source of much of our biochemical knowledge.

First sentence: gets that life as we know it arose but once (if life arose more than once, the other forms must have rapidly died out, possibly because they were "eaten" by the present form). Thus, by comparing the corresponding genetic messages of a wide variety of modern organisms it may be possible to derive reasonable models of the primordial messages from which they have descended.

Year

1990

Language

English

Publisher

Wiley

Editions

10

Pages

1361

ISBN

9780471135593

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