| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Oxygen, Its Nature and Chemistry: What Is so Special About This Element? -- A Brief History of Oxygen -- Coping with Oxygen -- Aerobic Metabolism: Benefits from an Oxygenated World -- Facilitated Oxygen Transport -- Climate Over the Ages; Is the Environment Stable? -- Global Warming: Human Intervention in World Climate -- Oxygen in Medicine -- Oxygen and the Exploration of the Universe |
| Summary |
This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many anaerobes. Others found ways to deal with the toxic reactive oxygen species and even developed a much more efficient oxygen-based metabolism. The authors vividly describe how the introduction of O2 al |
| Analysis |
evolutie |
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evolution |
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zuurstof |
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oxygen |
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leven |
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life |
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Evolution and Phylogeny |
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Evolutie en fylogenie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oxygen -- Physiological transport.
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Oxygen -- physiology
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Oxygen -- Physiological transport
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Sauerstoff
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Atmosphäre
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Evolution
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Sauerstofftransport
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Paläoklima
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Palèaoklima.
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Atmosphèare.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Decker, Heinz
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Van Holde, K. E. (Kensal Edward), 1928-
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| ISBN |
9783642131790 |
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3642131794 |
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