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020			_a9781032457673
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a579.3 _bM365g
100			_aMartin, William F.
245			_aThe geochemical origin of microbes _cWilliam F. Martin and Karl Kleinermanns
260			_bCRC Press _c2024 _aBoca Raton
300			_axiii, 234p
520			_aThis is a textbook covering the transition from energy releasing reactions on the early Earth to energy releasing reactions that fueled growth in the first microbial cells. It is for teachers and college students with an interest in microbiology, geosciences, biochemistry, evolution, or all of the above. The scope of the book is a quantum departure from existing “origin of life” books in that it starts with basic chemistry and links energy-releasing geochemical processes to the reactions of microbial metabolism. The text reaches across disciplines, providing students of the geosciences an origins/biology interface and bringing a geochemistry/origins interface to students of microbiology and evolution. Beginning with physical chemistry and transitioning across metabolic networks into microbiology, the timeline documents chemical events and organizational states in hydrothermal vents – the only environments known that bridge the gap between spontaneous chemical reactions that we can still observe in nature today and the physiology of microbes that live from H2, CO2, ammonia, phosphorus, inorganic salts and water. Life is a chemical reaction. What it is and how it arose are two sides of the same coin. Key Features Provides clear connections between geochemical reactions and microbial metabolism Focuses on chemical mechanisms and transition metals Richly illustrated with color figures explaining reactions and processes Covers the origin of the Earth, the origin of metabolism, the origin of protein synthesis and genetic information as well as the escape into the wild of the first free-living cells: Bacteria and Archaea
650			_aBacteria cytology
650			_aBacteria metabolism
650			_aChemical phenomena
650			_aEnergy metabolism
650			_aEnvironmental microbiology
650			_aOrigin of Life
700			_aKleinermanns, Karl
942			_cBK
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