My Favorite Science Book || "Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World"
Hello greetings to everyone
My name is Padmore, a University Student from Ghana.
I am a level 300 student currently studying Bsc. Biochemistry, in the University of technology and applied sciences (UTAS)
Science has not always been an easy course, as many will say, but I find it interesting among all courses at the tertiary level.
As a student, specifically science student, I have read a lot of books during my high school and early University. These books were written by popular scientists and science scholars, some included "The Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren, "Eruption" by Steve Olson, and among several others, all because of my interest in science.
But among all the books I read, the book I really loved best and which made me to develop greater affinity for science was "Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World" by Nick Lane.
Nick Lane was one of the scientists I enjoyed reading his books. He is a British biochemist and an author. He is a professor in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published four books (The Vital Question:Why is life the way it is? Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life and including the above mentioned book) to date, blessing him with several awards. But among all his four books, the one I enjoyed most was the one about oxygen.
In this book, Nick made us understand that without oxygen, life wouldn't have been possible.
Nick Lane made me to know somethings I did not expect, thus, how oxygen brings about the evolution of life and death, this really made happy and always motivated to study science. It made me to get to know certain things I have looked for and tried to understand for long, such as, how animals came to existence, the existence and process of photosynthesis, the origin of biological complexity and several other important things of science.
The book covers several areas, ranging from environmental science to molecular medicine.
This book when carefully read and understood very well, can be seen to be in two parts; the first part which is about how early life all of a sudden filled the atmosphere with oxygen molecules, saving the earth from a lot similar to that of Mars or Venus by making the ozone layer. It gives us some understanding on the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), and however, even though we do not still know what actually it was , we can report several attributes that it might have had.
The second part of the book is about how the oxygen molecule affect life today, especially its effects on humans, basically through the action of free radicals, oxygen-based molecules with unpaired electrons. Nick concluded this book making us to understand that oxygen is not only the most important part of evolution, but also the only most essential cause of ageing and age related diseases.
Whiles I end here, I encourage all science students to read this book, for it will help them in understanding the basis of science especially the science of life.
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