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The coil of life : the story of the great discoveries in the life sciences
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The coil of life : the story of the great discoveries in the life sciences

Author: Ruth E Moore
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1961.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Moore, Ruth E.
Coil of life.
New York : Knopf, 1961
(OCoLC)594963410
Online version:
Moore, Ruth E.
Coil of life.
New York : Knopf, 1961
(OCoLC)607877639
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ruth E Moore
OCLC Number: 550476
Description: xv, 418 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: A look ahead --
Lavoisier : the flame of life --
Bichat : tissues --
Wohler and Liebig : makable by man --
Schleiden and Schwann : the cell --
Pasteur : life is a germ --
Fischer and Buchner : essences of life --
Roux and Driesch : halves and wholes --
De Vries and Mendel : heredity and units --
Morgan : the line-up of heredity --
Muller : mutations and the new --
Beadle and Tatum : of molds and men --
The veritable stuff of life --
Crick and Watson : DNA, a helix --
Ochoa and Kornberg : the synthesis of RNA and DNA --
DNA's ingenious mechanisms --
Pauling and Sanger : the proteins, another coil --
Four = Twenty = Infinity --
New world --
Cells into tissues - Szent-Györgyi and the Huxleys : sliding coils --
The coil of the future.
Responsibility: by Ruth Moore ; drawings by Patricia M. Jackson.

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