Abstract
Four of the great ideas of biology are discussed: the cell as the basic structural and functional unit of life, the gene as the mechanism of heredity, evolution by natural selection, and life as chemistry. A fifth idea is explored whereby biological organisation is explained in terms of logical and informational processes and structures.
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Nurse, P. (2003). The great ideas of biology. In Clinical Medicine (Vol. 3, pp. 560–568). Royal College of Physicians. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.3-6-560
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