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50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know
In recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for otherwise incurable diseases. But these advances are also generating controversy, particularly surrounding issues such as...
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London
Quercus
2008
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Taula de continguts:
- Classical genetics : The theory of evolution
- The laws of inheritance
- Genes and chromosones
- The genetics of evolution
- Mutation
- Sex. Molecular biology : Genes, proteins and DNA
- The double helix
- Cracking the code of life
- Genetic engineering. The genome : Reading the genome
- The human genome
- Lessons of the genome. Nature and nurture : Genetic determinism
- Selfish genes
- The blank slate
- Nature via nurture. Genes and disease : Genetic diseases
- Gene hunting
- Cancer
- Superbugs. Sex, history and behaviour : Behavioural genetics
- Intelligence
- Race
- Genetic history
- Genetic genealogy
- Sex genes
- The end of men?
- The battle of the sexes
- Homosexuality. Genetics technologies : Genetic fingerprinting
- GM crops
- GM animals
- Evo-devo
- Stem cells
- Cloning
- Cloning people
- Gene therapy
- Genetic testing
- Tailor-made medicines
- Designer babies
- Brave new worlds
- Genes and insurance
- Gene patenting. The new genetics : Junk DNA
- Copy number variation
- Epigenetics
- The RNA revolution
- Artificial life
- No such thing as normal.