Keywords:
Cytology -- Congresses.
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Genetics -- Congresses.
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Embryology -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Biological Organization at the Cellular and Supercellular Level provides information on some of the most intriguing problems of cell biology. This book discusses the models for gene function as well as the simple mechanisms found in bacteria. Organized into 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the model for the regulation of DNA replication. This text then examines the specific properties of an organism, which arise from its catalytic constitution. Other chapters consider the experiments to test whether enzyme induction is accompanied by an increase in the rate of synthesis of the specific messenger RNA corresponding to the structural gene that controls the induced enzyme. This book discusses as well the comparison of the properties of the two types of CO2-sensitive flies, namely, the non-stabilized and the stabilized. The final chapter deals with the morphological or structural aspects of biological organization. This book is a valuable resource for geneticists, embryologists, and cancerologists.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483274256
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1817880
DDC:
574.87082
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Biological Organization at the Cellular and Supercellular Level -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTICIPANTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. ELEMENTS OF REGULATORY CIRCUITS IN BACTERIA -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- REGULATION OP ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY: ALLOSTERIC EFFECTS -- REGULATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS -- REGULATION OF DNA REPLICATION: THE "REPLICON" HYPOTHESIS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. THE KINETIC STRUCTURE OF ORGANISMS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BOUNDARIES OF AN ORGANISM -- THECELLAS AN OPEN SYSTEM -- CATALYTIC CONTROL OF THE STEADY STATE -- EQUIFINALITY AND THE RECORD OF PAST EVENTS -- FLUX CONTROL AND GENETIC REDUNDANCY -- SEQUENCE INTERACTIONS -- HISTORICAL AND GENIC DETERMINATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. STIMULATION OF THE RATE OF SYNTHESIS OF SPECIFIC MESSENGER RNA AFTER ENZYME INDUCTION IN E. COLI -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- BASE SEQUENCE COMPLEMENTARITY WITH HOMOLOGOUS DNA REGIONS AS A BASIS FOR THE DETECTION OF SPECIFIC MESSENGER RNA -- DETECTION OF THE mRNA SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE "GAL" REGION -- DETECTION OF THE mRNA SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE "LAC" REGION -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE HEREDITARY VIRUS OF DROSOPHILA TO ITS HOST -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CYTOPLASM AND CHROMOSOME IN THE TRANSMISSION OF MELANOTIC TUMOURS IN DROSOPHILA -- SUMMARY -- THE PHBNOTYPE AND ITS GENESIS -- TRANSMISSION OF CHARACTER -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 6. ASPECTS OF MUTUAL EXCLUSION IN TETRAHYMENA -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ORGANISM -- INTRA-LOCUS EXCLUSION -- INTER-LOCUS EXCLUSION -- INTER-ALLELIC EXCLUSION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES.
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CHAPTER 7. LOSS OF NUCLEAR POTENTIALITY IN THE SOMA VERSUS PRESERVATION OF NUCLEAR POTENTIALITY IN THE GERM LINE -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENT SWITH THE GALLMIDGE MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR (CECIDOMYIDAE) -- EXPERIMENTS WITH THE GERM LINE IN THE ANURA (AMPHIBIA ) -- EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING THE TRANSPLANTATION OF SOMATIC NUCLEI IN AMPHIBIA -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. THE FOURTH MOMENT OF A CHARACTER DISTRIBUTION AS AN INDEX OF THE REGULATIVE EFFICIENCY OF THE GENETIC CODE -- SUMMARY -- I. DIFFERENCES IN KURTOSIS BETWEEN HATCHING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS IND, -- II. WHY SHOULD THE INTEGRATION OF THE GENETIC SYSTEM BE REFLECTED IN KURTOSIS? -- III. LEPTOKURTOSIS AND CHROMOSOMAL POLYMORPHISM IND -- IV. KURTOSIS AS AN INDICATION OF FITNESS -- ACKNO\VLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. ORIENTED CELL MOVEMENTS IN EMBRYOGENESIS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTROL OF CELL MOVEMENTS -- DIRECTIONAL CONTROL -- MIGRATION OF PRECARDIAC MESODERM AS AN EXAMPLE OF CONTACT GUIDANCE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. THE ROLE OF THE NUCLEIC ACIDS IN THE PROCESSES OF INDUCTION, REGULATION AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE AMPHIBIAN EMBRYO AND THE UNICELLULAR ALGA, ACETABULARIA MEDITERRÁNEA -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. THE ROLE OF REGIONAL SPECIFIC INDUCERS IN THE PRIMARY DETERMINATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF AMPHIBIA -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- FORMATION OF DEUTERENCEPHALIC INDUCTIONS BY CO-OPERATION OF TWO INDUCING FACTORS -- INACTIVATION OF INDUCING FACTORS B Y PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES AND DIFFERENTIAL SENSITIVITY TO CHEMICAL AGENTS -- SPECIFIC ACTION VERSUS RELAIS-MECHANISM -- MECHANISM OF ACTION AT PRIMARY INDUCTION AND DIFFERENTIATION -- ACKNO\VLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 12. THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION DURING PRIMARY EMBRYONIC INDUCTION -- SUMMARY.
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INTRODUCTION -- THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION -- THE TRANSMISSION OF MATERIALS -- THE RELEASE OF MATERIALS -- FINAL REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 13. SOME PROBLEMS OF DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION IN NEOPLASIA -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COURSE OF NEOPLASIA -- DIFFERENTIATION -- NEOPLASTIC DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14. BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION: SUMMARIZING LECTURE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Author Index.
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