Radioisotopes and Life Processes
by Walter E. Kisieleski
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Baserga, Renato, 1925-2023
- Title
- Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised)
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Radioactive tracers
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49334
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49334
- Release Date
- June 30, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Radioisotopes and Life Processes — Radioisotopes AND LIFE PROCESSES
- 2.CONTENTS — THE COVER — THE AUTHORS — Radioisotopes AND LIFE PROCESSES
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.CELL THEORY: DNA IS THE SECRET OF LIFE — Unit of Life — Cell Structure — The Two Nucleic Acids — Mitosis
- 5.RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES: THE BIOLOGICAL DETECTIVES — Atomic Structure — Isotopes — Radioactive Isotopes — Radioactive Isotopes’ Value in Biological Studies
- 6.DNA SYNTHESIS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CELLS — DNA in Somatic and Germinal Cells — Replication of DNA — Labeling DNA with a Radioactive Isotope — Detecting DNA with Autoradiography
- 7.RNA SYNTHESIS: HOW TO TRANSLATE ONE LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER — Three Kinds of RNA — Labeling RNA with a Radioactive Isotope — Detecting RNA with Autoradiography — Other Methods of Detecting RNA
- 8.PROTEIN SYNTHESIS: THE MOLECULES THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE — Amino Acids and Protein Structure — Labeling an Amino Acid with a Radioactive Isotope
- 9.CELL CYCLE AND GENE ACTION: LIFE IS THE SECRET OF DNA — Interphase — The Cell Cycle — DNA Synthesis and the Cell Cycle — Translation of the Genetic Message
- 10.ISOTOPES IN RESEARCH: PROBING THE CANCER PROBLEM
- 11.CONCLUSIONS
- 12.SUGGESTED REFERENCES — Books — Articles — Reports — Booklets — Motion Pictures
- 13.FOOTNOTES — PHOTO CREDITS — Transcriber’s Notes
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