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" Mirror-image asymmetry : "
James P. Riehl
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BL
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657134
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Riehl, James P
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Mirror-image asymmetry : : an introduction to the origin and consequences of chirality /\ James P. Riehl
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Hoboken, N.J. :: Wiley,, c2010
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xix, 242 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm
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9780470387597 (pbk.)
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: 0470387599 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The mirror image -- Molecular chirality in living systems -- The origin of chirality in living systems -- Chiral chemistry, recognition, and control in living systems -- Chirality and drugs -- The chirality of living things -- The handedness of homo sapiens -- Living in a right-handers worlds -- The asymmetric universe
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Geometry in nature
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Symmetry (Biology)
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Chirality
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Random dynamical systems
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500
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Q172.5.S95R54 2010
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