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: Received: 20 October 2022 / Approved: 21 October 2022 / Online: 21 October 2022 (09:58:33 CEST)
How to cite:
Popovic, M. Biothermodynamic Key Opens the Door of Life Sciences: Bridging the Gap between Biology and Thermodynamics. Preprints2022, 2022100326. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0326.v1
Popovic, M. Biothermodynamic Key Opens the Door of Life Sciences: Bridging the Gap between Biology and Thermodynamics. Preprints 2022, 2022100326. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0326.v1
Popovic, M. Biothermodynamic Key Opens the Door of Life Sciences: Bridging the Gap between Biology and Thermodynamics. Preprints2022, 2022100326. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0326.v1
APA Style
Popovic, M. (2022). Biothermodynamic Key Opens the Door of Life Sciences: Bridging the Gap between Biology and Thermodynamics. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0326.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Popovic, M. 2022 "Biothermodynamic Key Opens the Door of Life Sciences: Bridging the Gap between Biology and Thermodynamics" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0326.v1
Abstract
During the last 50 years, an interdisciplinary approach in research in various scientific fields has become widely spread. This process significantly deepens and widens our scientific knowledge, but on the other hand makes more difficult choosing a discipline to be used by students and young researchers. The dynamic development of science makes this choice even harder. There is a widely spread opinion that thermodynamics uses a rigorous mathematical apparatus. This paper describes that knowledge of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics is required for deep understanding of crucial biological processes. Thus the effort put into learning classical and nonequilibrium thermodynamics does not make harder, but easier gaining a better knowledge of biological processes. This essay is an attempt to convey personal experience in using thermodynamics to describe biological systems and processes they perform.
Keywords
biology; thermodynamics; biothermodynamics; entropy; Gibbs energy
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biophysics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
