Introduction: how and when did microbes change the world?
- 3 May 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 361 (1470) , 845-850
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.1847
Abstract
Living organisms are open systems. They tap the flow of thermonuclear energy from the sun and nuclear fission energy from deep in the Earth's crust to process simple chemicals from their environment and build their cells. In so doing they excrete others, such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane,Keywords
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