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English scientist Stephen Rose, who specializes in brain biochemistry, considers the most fundamental scientific problem to be the solution to the question of what life is. You can try to get an answer to this question only by mastering the enormous amount of human knowledge and, above all, the relatively young science of biochemistry, to which this small popular science book is dedicated. The author introduces the reader to the chemical composition of a living cell, the processes occurring in it, their relationships and methods of regulation. Any cell is a completely independent enterprise that produces its own raw materials and energy from externally supplied raw materials and energy. In addition, the cell is capable of self-reproduction, while not a single modern enterprise can produce something similar on its own. Written simply, clearly and imaginatively, this book is addressed to high school students and students.

Steven Peter Russell Rose is a British biologist and Emeritus Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, University of London. Known for research in the field of genetics, neurobiology, the theory of evolution, as well as popular science works.