Life Sciences and Space Research
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Life Sciences and Space Research

Proceedings of the Open Meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the Twenty-Second Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Bangalore, India, 29 May - 9 June 1979

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Life Sciences and Space Research

Proceedings of the Open Meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the Twenty-Second Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Bangalore, India, 29 May - 9 June 1979

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Life Sciences and Space Research, Volume XVIII is a collection of articles on space biology. The book describes the presence of organic molecules found in interstellar space, comets, and meteorites. The text also addresses the role of comets in giving rise to new studies in cometary chemistry, as the source of plasma, or as supplying the mechanism for the formation of amino acids, glycine, and guanine. One paper addresses the possibility of life on the planet Mars touching on chemical reactions of nutrient compound decay and other physio-chemical changes. The book also notes the contribution of cometary volatiles to the study of the primitive earth plus the possible role of metal ions and clays in prebiotic chemistry. Other papers discuss radiation biology concerning both radiobiological results from experiments done in spaceflight and ground laboratories such as the degeneration of rabbit tissues after heavy irradiation. The book then evaluates gravitational biology, including topics such as physiological reactions during acute adaptation to reduced gravity; land plant evolution and gravity; and the development of Polyporus brumalis basidomycete, a kind of fungi, in conditions of weightlessness. Molecular biologists, space engineers, biologists, meteorologists, and genetic engineers will find this book highly valuable.

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Publisher
Pergamon
Year
2013
ISBN
9781483149035
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Physiology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Life Sciences and Space Research
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. PART I: ORGANIC MOLECULES IN SPACE
  7. PART II: PLANETARY RESEARCH
  8. PART III: EARLY BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
  9. PART IV: RADIATION BIOLOGY
  10. PART V: GRAVITATIONAL BIOLOGY
  11. AUTHOR INDEX