The Mechanism of Life

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Stéphane Leduc. The Mechanism of Life

The Mechanism of Life

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INTRODUCTION

THE MECHANISM OF LIFE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

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Stéphane Leduc

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Wöhler in 1828 accomplished the first synthesis of an organic substance, urea, one of the products of the decomposition of albumin. Since then a large number of organic substances have been prepared by the synthesis of their inorganic elements. The most recent advance in this direction is that of Emile Fischer, who has produced polypeptides having the same reactions as the peptones, by combining a number of molecules of the amides of the fatty acids.

In the further synthesis of organic compounds the problems we have before us are of the same order as those already solved. There is no essential difference between organic and inorganic chemistry; living organisms are formed of the same elements as the mineral world, and the organic combinations of these elements may be realized in our laboratories, just as in the laboratory of the living organism.

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