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Mirror-image asymmetry : an introduction to the origin and consequences of chirality / James P. Riehl.
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Riehl, James P.
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English
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Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2010.
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xix, 242 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Q172.5.S95 R54 2010
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Geometry in nature
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Symmetry (Biology)
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Chirality
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Random dynamical systems
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Summary note
Written at an introductory level, Mirror-Image Asymmetry provides an overview of the importance and effects of asymmetry from the atomic and molecular world of physics and chemistry to the organisms and structures that we see and use in our everyday life. --from publisher description
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The mirror image
Molecular chirality in living systems
The origin of chirality in living systems
Chiral chemistry, recognition, and control in living systems
Chirality and drugs
The chirality of living things
The handedness of homo sapiens
Living in a right-handers worlds
The asymmetric universe.
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ISBN
9780470387597 ((pbk.))
0470387599 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2009051005
OCLC
310400173
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Mirror-image asymmetry [electronic resource] : an introduction to the origin and consequences of chirality / by James P. Riehl.
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Mirror-image asymmetry : an introduction to the origin and consequences of chirality / James P. Riehl.
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