![]() Within this genetic tome, scientists have identified about 18,000 genes, each of which encodes proteins that build our bodies. Wecan now read the entire human genome, all 3.5 billion base pairs of DNA in which the recipe for Homosapiens is written. How do all of the molecules in a snowyegretwork together to keep it alive? That's a good question, made all the better by the fact that scientists have decoded only a fewsnips of snowyegret DNA.Most other specieson Earth are equally mysterious.Wedon't even know all that much about ourselves. The fact that they livemaybe obvious,but what it means for them to be alive is not. All of these things have something in common with one another, something not found in rocks or rivers,in tugboats or thumbtacks. Stinkhorns and toadstools rudely surprise. An orange cat lurks under a lilac bush, gazing up at an oblivious goldfinch. Life fills my view: fescue and clover spreading out across the yard, rose of Sharon holding out leaves to catch sunlight and flowers to lure bumblebees. ![]() I GAZE OUT A WINDOW, a clear, puck-shaped box in my hand. Nine Palimpsest 125 Ten Playing Nature 157 Eleven N Equals 1 193 Seven Darwin at the Drugstore 97 Eight Open Source 113 Printed in the United States of America First Edition Includes bibliographical referencesand index. coli and the new science of life / Carl Zimmer. Libraryof Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zimmer, Carl, Microcosm: E. All illustrationsby TadeuszMajewski unless otherwise noted. Pantheon Books and colophon areregistered trademarks of Random House, Inc. The Discoveryof the Brain and How It Changed the World Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human OriginsĬopyright © 2008by CarlZimmer All rights reserved.Published in the United Statesby Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,New York, and in Canadaby Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Inside the BizarreWorld of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea Soul Made Flesh: At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore hut Then Went Back to the Sea Parasite Rex:
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