RT Book, Section
A1 Schaefer, G. Bradley
A1 Thompson, Jr., James N.
SR Print(0)
ID 1147722786
T1 Metabolism
T2 Medical Genetics: An Integrated Approach
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071664387
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1147722786
RD 2024/04/20
AB Even  the  simplest  cell  may  house  thousands  of  individual  chemical  reactions.  But  the  number  of  different  kinds  of  chemical  reaction  is  surprisingly  small.  In  fact,  we  saw  the  same  underlying  pattern  in  our  discussion  of  genetic  regulation.  While  the  specific  details  of  the  vast  array  of  regulatory  events  may  be  complicated,  only  a  fairly  small  number  of  different  principles  are  needed  to  explain  the  essential  mechanisms  at  work  in  an  organism.  There  is  often  a  surprising  degree  of  simplicity  underlying  the  seemingly  complex  events  of  life.  As  we  will  see  in  this  chapter,  the  genetic  control  of  metabolism  is  no  different.  But  we  can  never  lose  sight  of  the  fact  that  it  is  the  understanding  of  the  specific  processes,  in  all  their  complexity,  that  actually  makes  the  difference  for  an  individual  patient.