COVER -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY OF GENETICS -- MENDELIAN PRINCIPLES -- PHYSICAL BASIS OF HEREDITY -- CHROMOSOMES -- CELL DIVISION -- CROSSING OVER -- CHROMOSOME MAPS -- LINKAGE -- INTERACTION OF GENES -- MULTIPLE ALLELES AND BLOOD GROUPS -- SEX LINKED INHERITANCE -- CYTOPLASMIC INHERITANCE -- SEX DETERMINATION -- NON-DISJUNCTION -- SEX DIFFERENTIATION -- QUANTITATIVE INHERITANCE -- POLYPLOIDY -- MUTATIONS -- LETHAL GENES -- CONCEPT OF GENE -- NATURE OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL -- NUCLEIC ACID -- BIOLOGICAL REPLICATION -- ENZYMES OF DNA SYNTHESIS -- RIBONUCLEIC ACID (RNA) -- RNA BIOSYNTHESIS -- PROTEIN SYNTHESIS -- GENE EXPRESSION -- GENETIC CODE -- DNA CLONING AND FINGER PRINTS -- GENETIC ENGINEERING -- PEDIGREE ANALYSIS -- HUMAN GENETICS AND CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES -- GENE ACTION AND RELATED DISEASES -- EUGENICS AND EUPHENICS -- POPULATION GENETICS -- INBREEDING, OUTBREEDING AND HYBRID VIGOUR -- GENE AND BEHAVIOUR -- MICROBIAL GENETICS -- DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX.