PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Paul Nurse
TI  - The great ideas of biology
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.3-6-560
DP  - 2003 Nov 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 560--568
VI  - 3
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/6/560.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/6/560.full
SO  - Clin Med2003 Nov 01; 3
AB  - Four of the great ideas of biology are discussed: the cell as the basic structural and functional unit of life, the gene as the mechanism of heredity, evolution by natural selection, and life as chemistry. A fifth idea is explored whereby biological organisation is explained in terms of logical and informational processes and structures.