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How dinosaurs ran and other scientific insights : a second collection of articles on how things happen.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: [New York] : Scientific American, [1991?]Description: 111 p. : ill. (some col.)Subject(s):
Contents:
How dinosaurs ran / by R. McNeill Alexander -- How plants make oxygen / by Govindjee and William J. Coleman -- How photoreceptor cells respond to light / by Julie L. Schnapf and Denis A. Baylor -- How cells maintain stability / by Igor N. Todorov -- How cells absorb glucose / by Gustav E. Lienhard ... [et al.] -- How an animal virus gets into and out of its host cell / by Kai Simons, Henrik Garoff and Ari Helenius -- How embryonic nerve cells recognize one another / by Corey S. Goodman and Michael J. Bastiani -- How genes control an innate behavior / by Richard H. Scheller and Richard Axel -- How LDL receptors influence cholesterol and atherosclerosis / by Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein -- How sea turtles navigate / by Kenneth J. Lohmann -- How a tadpole becomes a frog / by William Etkin -- How birds sing / by Crawford H. Greenewalt -- How the trypanosome changes its coat / by John E. Donelson and Mervyn J. Turner.
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Essays previously published in: Scientific American, 1985-1991.

How dinosaurs ran / by R. McNeill Alexander -- How plants make oxygen / by Govindjee and William J. Coleman -- How photoreceptor cells respond to light / by Julie L. Schnapf and Denis A. Baylor -- How cells maintain stability / by Igor N. Todorov -- How cells absorb glucose / by Gustav E. Lienhard ... [et al.] -- How an animal virus gets into and out of its host cell / by Kai Simons, Henrik Garoff and Ari Helenius -- How embryonic nerve cells recognize one another / by Corey S. Goodman and Michael J. Bastiani -- How genes control an innate behavior / by Richard H. Scheller and Richard Axel -- How LDL receptors influence cholesterol and atherosclerosis / by Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein -- How sea turtles navigate / by Kenneth J. Lohmann -- How a tadpole becomes a frog / by William Etkin -- How birds sing / by Crawford H. Greenewalt -- How the trypanosome changes its coat / by John E. Donelson and Mervyn J. Turner.

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