A comment on entropy

Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the function of entropy in living systems, initiated by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication by Schrodinger of his well known book entitled What is Life [57]. 

For better or worse, many meanings have arisen as to the concept of entropy. The principal idea that is usually expressed is that entropy represents a degree of randomness, or probability with respect to something being studied. This 

The author wishes to express his grateful thanks to Dr. Christer Larsson, Lundberg Laboratory, Department of General and Marine Microbiology, Medicinareg. 9C, S-413 90 Goteborg, Sweden, for the use of his unpublished data on the heat of combustion of whole cells of S. cerevisiae. 

Jones (Ed.), Human Cell Culture Protocols, Humana Press, Totawa, New Jersey, 1996. 

Battley, Energetics of Microbial Growth, Wiley-lnterscience, New York, 1987, Sections 5.1 and 5.2. 

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