Biological Innovations that Built the World: A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History - Couverture souple
Synopsis
1. Introduction
2. The Origins
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Birth of The Solar System2.3 The Earth
2.4 The Start of Tectonics
2.5 Tectonic Processes are Essential to Life
2.6 Genesis of The Atmosphere-Ocean-Continental Crust (AOC) System
3. The Birth of Life
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents as Settings for the Emergence of Life
3.3 A Primordial Role for RNA?
3.4 The Origin of the Genetic Code
3.5 A RNA-Protein World
3.6 Biological Membranes
3.7 From Geochemistry to Biochemistry: The Emergence of an Autonomous Metabolism
3.8 DNA Replaced RNA as the Repository of Biological Information3.9 The Bacteria-Archaea Membrane Divide: Ancestral or Derived?
3.10 Concluding Remarks
4. Moving to the Light: The Evolution of Photosynthesis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Light, Pigments and Photosystems
4.3 Accessory Pigments
4.4 The Photochemical Process in Anoxygenic Bacteria
4.5 Evolutionary Interrelationships of Type-1 and Type-2 Photosystems
4.6 Oxygenic Photosynthesis4.7 Pathways of Carbon Photosynthetic Fixation
5. The Great Oxygenation
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Planetary Oxygen Balance
5.3 Methane was Probably a Key Driver of Planetary Oxygenation
5.4 The GOE was Associated with a Phase of Climatic Instability
5.5 After the GOE, the Earth Stabilized in a Low-Oxygen State for Over One Billion YLes informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
