HOW LIFE WORKS: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.
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