School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2010 May;97(4):313-8. doi: 10.1007/s10482-010-9419-3. Epub 2010 Feb 6.
Biological generalizations about bacteriology are discussed to provide a broad perspective of what we know about bacteria. Bacteriology (and possibly all biology) from an overall perspective can be researched and understood as observations and experimentations on mass and energy, which are themselves the products of evolutionary change for about 3.5-3.9 billion years. All organisms have mass, transform, store and use biochemical energy and obey the most fundamental of all laws--the laws of thermodynamics. Bacteria can be viewed as semi-permeable, thermodynamically open systems of mass, controlled by relatively small amounts of genetic instructions with lower entropy than their higher entropy, surrounding environments. Some fundamental properties describing bacterial life are also presented.
讨论了关于细菌学的生物学概括,以提供我们对细菌了解的广阔视角。从整体角度来看,细菌学(可能还有所有生物学)可以被研究和理解为对质量和能量的观察和实验,而质量和能量本身是大约 35 亿到 39 亿年前进化变化的产物。所有生物都有质量,它们会进行转化、储存和利用生物化学能,并遵守所有定律中最基本的定律——热力学定律。细菌可以被视为半透性的、热力学开放的质量系统,由相对较少的遗传指令控制,其遗传指令的熵低于其周围环境的熵。还介绍了一些描述细菌生命的基本特性。