What Is Life?:How Chemistry Becomes Biology - Plot & Excerpts
This fact alone makes the problem of understanding the living state of matter and the elucidation of its underlying characteristics a difficult one. How can that complex interplay of reactions and the molecular entities on which they operate be unravelled? Are some reactions central while others are peripheral? Of course, if we are seeking a better understanding of the reactions of life, we first need to understand chemical reactions in general. What is a chemical reaction and why do they take place? So let us begin by making some general comments about chemical reactivity. The subject is complex, one that requires textbook coverage for a proper treatment. Here I will give a greatly simplified version that primarily addresses those aspects of reactivity that we will need for our subsequent analysis. Our analysis will reveal that there is something very special within the set of chemical reactions that constitute life and understanding what that special feature is will be a focus of the ensuing chapters.
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