5/11/2023 0 Comments What is life paul nurse reviewNurse begins at the level of the cell, then works through genetics and natural selection, building toward descriptions of “life as chemistry” and “life as information.” Along the way, he describes cell theory (the idea that “everything that is alive on the planet is either a cell or made up from a collection of cells”), Gregor Mendel’s 19th-century experiments in plant breeding that led to the modern understanding of genetics, and how gene regulation allows for different life stages (a “formless embryo” growing into a “fully formed human being,” for example). Nobel Prize–winning geneticist Nurse takes a look at what makes up life in this eloquent introduction to biology.
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