Origin Of Natural Order, The: An Axiomatic Theory Of Biology

by Qinyi Zhao

Overview

All sorts of biological activities are processed thermodynamically, and at the utmost fundamental level, the laws of biology must be thermodynamics. However, the current laws of thermodynamics are unable to give reasonable explanation of biological processes. In order to do so, irreversible thermodynamics has been theorized to describe the basic mechanism for the origin of natural order or the development of things (related to developmental biology). The scientific definition of the system theory concept has been obtained and the properties of a biological system can be analyzed by applying principles of it. Irreversible thermodynamics and system theory act as the theoretical foundation for theoretical biology. By applying principles of irreversible thermodynamics and system theory, the axiomatic theory of biology has been developed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813209268
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/01/2017
Series:	Series On The Foundations Of Natural Science And Technology , #12
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

Introduction ix

Part I Physical Foundation 1

Chapter 1 The Essence of Irreversible Thermodynamics 3

Chapter 2 The Origin of Natural Order 17

Chapter 3 The Developing System and Hierarchical Structure of Things 27

Chapter 4 Partition Function of a Thermodynamic System 33

Chapter 5 Dissipative Structure and Thermodynamic Structure Theory 43

Part II System Logic and System Theory 51

Chapter 6 The Scientific Definition of the System 53

Chapter 7 Logic Discontinuity and Continuity Between Different Levels of Hierarchical Structure 61

Chapter 8 System Logic 69

Chapter 9 Isolating Logic Relation Between Complex Systems 81

Part III Axiomatic Theory of Biology 87

Chapter 10 Irreversible Thermodynamic Structure Theory for Protein Folding 89

Chapter 11 Can We Go from Protein Sequence to Protein Structure? 109

Chapter 12 Protein Thermodynamic Structure Theory 115

Chapter 13 General Properties of a Protein 127

Chapter 14 Protein Conformation 135

Chapter 15 Dynamic and Thermodynamic Nature of Protein Conformational Change 149

Chapter 16 Protein Ligand Interaction 161

Chapter 17 The Receptor Activation and Fashions of Protein Regulation 173

Chapter 18 The Basic Thermodynamic Principles of Enzyme Catalyzed Reaction 189

Chapter 19 Protein Conformational Change and Enzyme Activity 199

Chapter 20 Allodynamic Regulation Model for Enzyme Regulation - A Thermodynamic View 211

Chapter 21 The Protein Evolution 223

Chapter 22 A Thermodynamic Model for Bio-signals 233

Chapter 23 Protein Flexibility as a Biosignal 247

Chapter 24 Signal Conduction and Neural Conduction 259

Chapter 25 Signaling Network Theory and System Biology 277

Chapter 26 Biological Development 301

Chapter 27 Hybridization and Hybrid Vigor 315

Chapter 28 Biological Evolution 329

Chapter 29 Scientific Explanation of Traditional Chinese Medical Theory 343

Index 361