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Proteins, enzymes, genes : the interplay of chemistry and biology / Joseph S. Fruton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 783 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585359806
  • 9780585359809
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Proteins, enzymes, genes.DDC classification:
  • 572/.09 21
LOC classification:
  • QP511 .F783 1999eb
NLM classification:
  • 1999 H-068
  • QU 11.1
Online resources:
Contents:
1. On the History of Scientific Disciplines -- 2. The Institutional Settings -- 3. Philosophy, Chemistry, and Biology -- 4. From Ferments to Enzymes -- 5. The Nature and Function of Proteins -- 6. Chemical Energy of Biological Systems -- 7. Pathways of Biochemical Change -- 8. The Chemical Basis of Heredity -- 9. The Whole and Its Parts.
Summary: In this book a distinguished scientist-historian offers a critical account of how biochemistry and molecular biology emerged as major scientific disciplines from the interplay of chemical and biological ideas and practice. Joseph S. Fruton traces the historical development of these disciplines from antiquity to the present time, examines their institutional settings, and discusses their impact on medical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural practice.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 560-743) and indexes.

Print version record.

1. On the History of Scientific Disciplines -- 2. The Institutional Settings -- 3. Philosophy, Chemistry, and Biology -- 4. From Ferments to Enzymes -- 5. The Nature and Function of Proteins -- 6. Chemical Energy of Biological Systems -- 7. Pathways of Biochemical Change -- 8. The Chemical Basis of Heredity -- 9. The Whole and Its Parts.

In this book a distinguished scientist-historian offers a critical account of how biochemistry and molecular biology emerged as major scientific disciplines from the interplay of chemical and biological ideas and practice. Joseph S. Fruton traces the historical development of these disciplines from antiquity to the present time, examines their institutional settings, and discusses their impact on medical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural practice.

English.

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