Praise of Biochemistry.
The interplay of chemistry and biology that occurred after Lavoisier's revolution gave the possibility of analysing the first organic molecules present in animals and plants. The will of learning of the first biologists enabled them to gain the biological meaning of many organic molecules and, towar...
| Publicado en: | Biology Forum / Rivista di Biologia Vol. 101; no. 2; pp. 299 - 319 |
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Fabrizio Serra Editore
2008
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