Author: Enrico Coen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192862081
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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In this highly original synthesis of art and science, Enrico Coen describes the recent revolution in human understanding of how plants and animals develop and how this offers fresh insights into evolution and human creativity.

Author: Suzanne Anker
Publisher: CSHL Press
ISBN: 9780879696979
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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And they suggest the ways in which DNA representations relate to archetypal images that have appeared throughout the history of art."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Sarah Adelaide Crawford
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781516545247
Category :
Languages : en
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The Gene Book: Explorations in the Code of Life is designed to introduce undergraduate college students to foundational concepts in genetics. The text provides in-depth coverage of the essential principles of genetics, from Mendel to molecular gene therapy, and reads like a story, guiding readers through each of these areas in an interesting, engaging, and enlightening way. Milestone scientific discoveries introduce conceptual topics in each of the 10 chapters. The significance of each genetics paradigm is reinforced by the meaningful research context in which it is placed, whether the focus is single gene inheritance of disorders such as PKU and cystic fibrosis, or more complex genetic phenomena. Chromosomes, cell division, and cytogenetic disorders, including Down Syndrome and leukemia, are presented in a riveting historical context. In addition, the principles of molecular genetics are a major focus of this book. Students learn about the double helix, DNA replication, gene expression, mutation, natural selection, genomics, and the tools of molecular DNA analysis. Approachable and effective, The Gene Book is a highly readable comprehensive text on genetics principles designed to highlight essential concepts that make up their very core. The text is well suited to undergraduate genetics courses and can also be used as a primer for more advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in medical or molecular genetics.

Author: Justin Pahara
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.
ISBN: 1680457675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero is made to provide you with a first glimpse of the inner-workings of a cell. It further focuses on skill-building for genetic engineering and the Biology-as-a-Technology mindset (BAAT). This book is designed and written for hands-on learners who have little knowledge of biology or genetic engineering. This book focuses on the reader mastering the necessary skills of genetic engineering while learning about cells and how they function. The goal of this book is to take you from no prior biology and genetic engineering knowledge toward a basic understanding of how a cell functions, and how they are engineered, all while building the skills needed to do so.

Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192860927
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science

Author: Robert Plomin
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262357763
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A top behavioral geneticist argues DNA inherited from our parents at conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. This “modern classic” on genetics and nature vs. nurture is “one of the most direct and unapologetic takes on the topic ever written” (Boston Review). In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent lifelong sources of our psychological individuality—the blueprint that makes us who we are. Plomin reports that genetics explains more about the psychological differences among people than all other factors combined. Nature, not nurture, is what makes us who we are. Plomin explores the implications of these findings, drawing some provocative conclusions—among them that parenting styles don't really affect children's outcomes once genetics is taken into effect. This book offers readers a unique insider’s view of the exciting synergies that came from combining genetics and psychology.

Author: Lenny Moss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262632973
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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A historical and critical analysis of the concept of the gene that attempts to provide new perspectives and metaphors for the transformation of biology and its philosophy.

Author: Kathryn Paige Harden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691190801
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.

Author: Peter J. Richerson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226712133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics. Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics—and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them—Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature. In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come. “I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable.”—Robin Dunbar, Nature “Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities.”—E. O. Wilson, Harvard University

Author: Benjamin Lewin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471807896
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Cells obey the laws of physics and chemistry; DNA as a store of information; Genes are metable units; DNA is the genetic material; The topology of nucleic acids; Isolating the gene; Turning genes into proteins; The assembly line for protein sysnthesis; Transfer RNA: the translational adaptor; The ribosome translation factory; The messenger RNA templlate; Controlling gene expression by transcription; RNA polymerase-promoter interactions control initiation; A panoply of operons: the lactose paradigm and others; Control at termination: attenuation and antitermination; Lytic cascades and lysogenic repression; Perpetuation of DNA; The replicon: unit of replication; The apparatus for DNA replication; Systems that safeguard DNA; Constitution of the eukaryotic genome; The extraordinary power of DNA technology; A continuum of sequences includes structural genes; The organization of interrupted genes; Clusters of relates sequences; Structural genes belond to families of various sizes; Genomes sequestered in organelles; Organization of simple sequence DNA; Reachiong maturity: RNA processing; Cutting and trimming stable RNA; RNNA as catalyst: mechanisms of splicing; Control of RNA processing; The packaging of DNA; About genomes and chromosomes; Chromatin structure: the nucleosome; The nature of active chromatin; The dynamic genome: DNA in flux; Recombination and other topological manipulations of DNA; Transposable elements in bacteria; Mobile elements in eukaryotes; Enginnering changes in the genome; Genes in development; Rearrangements and the generation of immune diversity; Changing gene organization from within and without; Gene regulation: changing patterns of expression; Oncogenes: aberrant gene expression and cancer; Landmark changes in perspectives.