Patterns: Sixteen Things You Should Know About Life

Patterns......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 10
A Singular Theme......Page 11
Thinking Small......Page 13
Scale 1— Atoms and Molecules Magnified 50 Million Times......Page 15
Scale 3— Molecular Structures Magnified 1 Million Times......Page 16
Scale 4— A Cell Magnified 10 Thousand Times......Page 17
Parts and Wholes......Page 18
Picturing the Invisible......Page 19
Sixteen Things You Should Know about Life......Page 20
The Influence of Small Things......Page 21
When Difference Becomes Information......Page 22
Heads Out—Tails in......Page 24
The Inward Similarity of Outward Diversity......Page 26
Making the Parts That Make the Whole......Page 28
Mixing Instructions......Page 29
7— Life Creates with Mistakes......Page 31
Accidents Ensure Novelty......Page 32
The All-Purpose Molecule......Page 33
9— Life Runs on Sugar......Page 34
A Molecule to Burn......Page 35
10— Life Works in Cycles......Page 36
A Circular Flow of Information......Page 37
A Circular Flow of Materials......Page 38
12— Life Maintains Itself by Turnover......Page 40
Put It Together—Take It Apart......Page 41
When Less Is Better......Page 42
Making the Most of What Is......Page 43
Strategies for \'\'Fitting In\"......Page 45
16— Life Is Interconnected and Interdependent......Page 47
A Network of Interactions......Page 48
Navigating the River of Change—A Different Kind of Similarity......Page 49
Focus on the Minuscule......Page 50
Comparing Sizes......Page 51
Exploring the Cell......Page 52
Picturing the Invisible......Page 53
From Bottom up to Top Down......Page 54
Rebuilding the Corporation......Page 55
Reading Information......Page 56
Water Organizes and Orients Other Molecules......Page 57
Reading the Landscape of a Cell Membrane......Page 58
Earth As Organism......Page 59
Patterns of Multiplication......Page 60
Stretching the Grid......Page 61
Sweetly Splitting Sugar......Page 63
Playing Games with Genes......Page 65
Mutations—Good or Bad?......Page 66
The Just-Rightness of Water......Page 68
Trapping the Sun......Page 69
Fever As a Feedback Loop......Page 71
Ultimate Recycling......Page 72
Parts Renewal......Page 73
Less Is More......Page 74
Bacterial Chloroplasts......Page 75
Shrimp Being Selfish......Page 76
Small Creatures, Big Effects......Page 77