Biological systems: Applications and perspectives

Viable biological systems occur on a wide scale of dimensions ranging from sizes of 30 meters for mammals (blue whale), and 120 meters for plants (sequoia tree), down to 10(−6) meters for single cellular organisms.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fidder, Henk, Heyne, Karsten, Schenkl, Selma, van Mourik, Frank, van der Zwan, Gert, Haacke, Stefan, Chergui, Majed, Vengris, Mikas, Larsen, Delmar S., Papagiannakis, Emmanouil, Kennis, John T. M., van Grondelle, Rienk, Brüggemann, Ben, May, Volkhard, Corral, Inés, González, Leticia, Lauer, Alexandra, Meerbach, Eike, Schütte, Christof, Horenko, Illia, Schmidt, Burkhard, Wolf, Jean-Pierre
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122019/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68038-3_9
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Summary:Viable biological systems occur on a wide scale of dimensions ranging from sizes of 30 meters for mammals (blue whale), and 120 meters for plants (sequoia tree), down to 10(−6) meters for single cellular organisms.