Leszek Konieczny, Irena Roterman-Konieczna, Paweł Spólnik
1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) :
illustrations (some color)
"Translation from Polish to English-- Piotr Nowakowski."
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Structure and Function of Living Organisms -- Energy in Biology : Demand and Use -- Information : Its Role and Meaning in Organisms -- Regulation in Biological Systems -- Interrelationships in Organized Biological Systems
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The objective of this book is to present the strategies employed by living organisms on a molecular level and to help understand the basics of Systems Biology. Its content is organized in a way to meet the exponential growth in the volume of biological knowledge, and the need for a multidisciplinary approach in the practice of teaching modern biology. For this reason, the whole material is divided into five chapters, each devoted to a fundamental concept: Structure-Function, Energy, Information, Regulation and Interrelationships. The book describes generic mechanisms which occur in biology and promotes a simulation-based approach to the subject of Systems Biology. The use of basic knowledge as the background for presenting biological problems obligates the teachers to deal with generalized phenomena comprising the ever increasing volume of teaching materials