What
is DNA? A Biology Adventure
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FORWARD
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| Prologue: Embarking on a New Adventure |
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Chapter I - The Birth of the Cell
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1.1 - All About Molecular Biology
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| 1.1.1 - Shige the Adventurous |
| 1.1.2 - A History of Biology |
| 1.1.3 - From the Birth of the Earth to the Birth of the Cell |
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1.2 - DNA Is Genetic Information
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1.3 - DNA, the Transmitter of Heredity
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| 1.3.1 - Watson and Crick Discover the Double Helix |
| 1.3.2 - Let's Build Some DNA!! |
| 1.3.3 - How DNA Replicates |
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1.4 - Protein Synthesis: Genetic Information in Action
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| 1.4.1 - The Great Protein Synthesis Mystery |
| 1.4.2 - The Protein Synthesis Recipe |
| 1.4.3 - The Cell chef Cooks Up Some Protein! |
| 1.4.4 - DNA and Protein: A Summary |
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1.5 - Cell Division: A Fight for Survival?
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| 1.5.1 - Building an RNA Model |
| 1.5.2 - How Did the First Cell Get Started? |
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| 1.6 - Is Language a Contest? |
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| Chapter II - The Birth of Multicellular Organisms |
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| 2.1 - From Single to Multiple Cells |
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| 2.1.1 - The Earth Four Billion Years Ago |
| 2.1.2 - From Unicellular to Multicellular |
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| 2.2 - What is "Multicellular"? |
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| 2.2.1 - Unicellular vs. Multicellular |
| 2.2.2 - The Development Process |
| 2.2.3 - The Development of Drosophila |
| 2.2.4 - The TCL Setting |
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| 2.3 - DNA: A Blueprint? |
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| 2.3.1 - Controlling Gene Expression |
| 2.3.2 - Molecular Shapes: How Proteins Transmit Information |
| 2.3.3 - Activators and Repressors |
| 2.3.4 - The Complex Gene Control of Multicellular Organisms |
| 2.3.5 - Homeotic Selector Genes Are Microchips |
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| 2.4 - Life Produces Order |
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| 2.4.1 - Always the Whole |
| 2.4.2 - Nature's Wavy Nature |
| 2.4.3 - Resonating Groups |
| 2.4.4 - Summetry |
| 2.4.5 - The Natural Order of the Five Vowels |
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| 2.5 - Evolution as a Wave |
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| 2.5.1 - How Does Evolution Occur? |
| 2.5.2 - How Is Evolution Written into DNA? |
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| Chapter III - The Birth of Humanity and Language |
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| 3.1 - Does Evolution Stop with People? |
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| 3.1.1 - Plants and Animals |
| 3.1.2 - The Extinction of Species |
| 3.1.3 - From Apes to Humans |
| 3.1.4 - The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory |
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| 3.2 - Matter, Life and Language |
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| 3.2.1 - Adding Language to the Evolutionary Plan |
| 3.2.2 - The Cavemen's Story |
| 3.2.3 - Four Billion Years: Viewed from the Inside |
| 3.2.4 - Cave Talk |
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| Chapter IV - Searching for Ourselves - A Four-Billion
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| 4.1 - The Cycle of Nature |
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| 4.1.1 - The Charge of the Bungle Brigade |
| 4.1.2 - Catabolism and Anabolism |
| 4.1.3 - The Citric Acid Cycle Caper |
| 4.1.4 - Revisiting the Citric Acid Cycle Caper: Equilibrium and
Desequilibrium |
| 4.1.5 - Generating Energy: The Bungle Workshop |
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| 4.2 - Finding a New Whole |
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| 4.2.1 - To Eat: Energy and Information |
| 4.2.2 - What's Information to an Organism? |
| 4.2.3 - A New System of Dynamics |
| 4.2.4 - Finding a New Whole: A Natural Process |
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| 4.3 - Evolution of the Bunglers |
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| 4.3.1 - Rediscovering Evolution |
| 4.3.2 - Evolution as Catabolism and Anabolism |
| 4.3.3 - Hymn to Bungling |
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| Postscript |
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| My Adventure with the DNA Adventure |
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| Epilogue - Saishu's Dream - |
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The Resonance of Matter, Life and Humanity:
A Radical New View Of Language |
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| Appendix |
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A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
by J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick |
| Models, We Got Models! |
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| Afterword |
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| Index |
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