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Making sense of genes /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Kampourakis, Kostas
Formato: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicado: Cambridge : CUP, c2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prolegomena : genes, science, and science fiction
  • Mendel and the origins of the gene concept
  • The genes of classical genetics
  • The molecularization of genes
  • So, what are genes?
  • Genes for (almost) everything
  • Are there genes for characters?
  • Are there genes for diseases?
  • So, what do genes do?
  • Genes are implicated in the development of characters
  • Genes account for variation in characters
  • Genomes are more than the sum of genes
  • Limitations in the study of genomes
  • Concluding remarks : how to think and talk about genes?.