RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The great ideas of biology
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 560
OP 568
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.3-6-560
VO 3
IS 6
A1 Paul Nurse
YR 2003
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/6/560.abstract
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.