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Blondes in Venetian paintings, the nine-banded armadillo, and other essays in biochemistry

In this text, the author, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, muses on various aspects of biochemistry, explaining the chemical basis for many biological phenomena.
Print Book, English, ©1994
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©1994
essays
xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300058819, 9780300070552, 0300058810, 0300070551
30360970
1. Blondes in Venetian Renaissance Paintings
2. Evolutionary Perfection of a Small Molecule
3. Oxygen and Evolution
4. The Importance of Being Contaminated
5. Receptors
6. The Chemical Structure and Biological Function of Sugars
7. Catabolism and Anabolism
8. Alternative Pathways
9. Lactose Intolerance
10. Two Centuries of Pellagra Research
11. Animal and Microbial Models
12. Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores
13. Biochemistry's Origin and Future