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- English
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With genetics and genetic engineering receiving almost daily coverage in the media, this book is an introduction for general readers who wish to know more about a science that is changing our world. Starting with the history of genetics, from primitive breeding programmes to Mendel's Law, and moving on to a full explanation of genetics and its role in our future, this is a comprehensive survey of genetics past, present and future.
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index
Note: page numbers in italics refer to figures and tables
Abelson, Philip 228
achondroplastic dwarfism 232
acquired characteristics, theory of 25–6
Adam, descendants 22
adaptive changes 258
adaptive radiation 255
adenine 118, 119, 268
adeno-associated virus 204
adenovirus 204
aflatoxins 238
agar 111, 268
agarose 140
agriculture 14, 15–16
Akhenaton (ancient Egyptian king) 23
albinism 54–8, 94, 95
Alcmaeon of Crotona 24
alcohol 37, 268
algae 33
alkaptonuria 93–4, 95, 268
alleles 58, 62, 268
deleterious 106–7
disease 132, 198, 265
frequency 257, 265, 268
multiple 62, 63
mutant 240
penetrance 232
population survival 230
probability of inheritance 66
recessive 63, 70, 266
variants 258
wild-type 128, 230, 231, 287
amber mutants 162, 268
amines 37, 268
amino acids 38–9, 43, 47, 146
base pairs 150
coding 159, 160
coding elements 162
definition 268
sequences 97
structure 40
triplets 146, 148, 159
amino group 37, 269
aminoacyl RNA synthetases 156
aminoacyl transfer RNA 156, 157, 269
ammonia in nitrogen fixation 201–2
amniocentesis 144
amoeba 33
anaphase 75, 269
Anaxagoras 24
ancestors 25
Anderson E S 171–2
aneuploid cells 243
aneuploidy 245–6, 269
animal feed, antibiotics in 171–2
animalicules 30
Anolis lizards 255
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- One Genetics: Past, Present, and Future
- Two From Myth to Modern Science
- Three What is Inherited?
- Four The Breakthrough: Mendel’s Laws
- Five Chromosomes, Reproduction, and Sex
- Six The Function of Genes
- Seven The Hereditary Material, DNA
- Eight The Genetic Dissection of Gene Structure
- Nine Deciphering the Code of Life
- Ten Heredity in the Bacterial World
- Eleven Gene Regulation and Development
- Twelve DNA Manipulation: The Return of Epimetheus?
- Thirteen The Geneticist as Dr. Frankenstein
- Fourteen The Fountain of Change: Mutation
- Fifteen Evolutionary Genetics
- Glossary
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
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