Title: Biological complexity and the dynamics of life processes /
Authors: Ricard, Jacques, 1929-
Publisher: Elsevier,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Biological systems; Complexity (Philosophy); Life (Biology); Biology; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology
Contents: Complexity and the structure of the living cell -- Elementary life processes viewed as dynamic physicochemical events -- Coupling between chemical and (or) vectorial processes as a basis for signal perception and transduction -- Control of metabolic networks under steady state conditions -- Compartmentalization of the living cell and thermodynamics of energy conversion -- Molecular crowding, transfer of information and channelling of molecules within supramolecular edifices -- Cell complexity, electrostatic partitioning of ions and bound enzyme reactions -- Dynamics and motility of supramolecular edifices in the living cell -- Temporal organization of metabolic cycles and structural complexity : oscillations and chaos -- Spatio-temporal organization during the early stages of development -- Evolution towards complexity.