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The purpose of this chapter is to present the structure of some of the molecules that make up a cell and to show how they are constructed under the supervision of hereditary elements of the cell. This will lead into a mathematical description of biological catalysis at the end of this chapter and is a necessary prelude to the discussion of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Chapter 10. As a result, this chapter contains a lot of biological information.
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Thermodynamics: Harold J. Morowitz, Energy Flow in Biology, Academic Press, New York, 1968.
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Biochemical structure and thermodynamics: Edward K. Yeargers, Basic Biophysics for Biology, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL., 1992.
Thermodynamics and enzyme function: R W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, W.-H. Freeman and Co. New York, 3rd ed., 1986.
Chemical genetics: David T. Suzuki, Anthony J. F Griffiths, Jeffrey H. Miller and Richard C. Lewontin, An Introduction to Genetic Analysis, W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 3rd ed., 1986.
Chemical genetics: James D. Watson, Nancy W. Hopkins, Jelfrey w. Koberts, Joan A. Steitz and Alan M. Weiner, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., Menlo Park, CA., 4th ed., 1987.
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Yeargers, E.K., Shonkwiler, R.W., Herod, J.V. (1996). The Biochemistry of Cells. In: An Introduction to the Mathematics of Biology: with Computer Algebra Models. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1095-3_9
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