What is life? Is it just a physico-chemical process of high complexity?

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-302

  Tolić, Iva Marija ^a   Trinajstić, Nenad ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

BEHAVIOR; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHIRALITY; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LIFE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RELIGION; RESEARCH;

EID: 0030688875     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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