BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE CODE OF LIFE -- ANCIENT THEORIES OF PANGENESIS AND BLOOD IN HEREDITY -- PREFORMATION AND NATURAL SELECTION -- THE WORK OF GREGOR MENDEL -- THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION -- REDISCOVERY -- HOW THE GENE IDEA BECAME REALITY -- EARLY MOLECULAR GENETICS -- DNA AND THE GENETIC CODE -- CHAPTER 2 THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF HEREDITY -- GENES -- ALLELES -- GENOTYPE -- PHENOTYPE -- CHROMOSOMES -- SEX CHROMOSOMES -- CHROMOSOMES DURING CELL DIVISION: MITOSIS -- CHROMOSOMES DURING CELL DIVISION: MEIOSIS -- LINKAGE GROUPS -- CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS -- CHAPTER 3 DNA AS THE AGENT OF HEREDITY -- STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF DNA -- DNA REPLICATION -- EXPRESSION OF THE GENETIC CODE -- TRANSCRIPTION -- TRANSLATION -- GENE MUTATION -- MECHANISMS OF MUTATION -- REPAIR OF MUTATION -- REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION -- RNA INTERFERENCE AND GENE SILENCING -- REPETITIVE DNA -- CHAPTER 4 THE STUDY OF GENETICS -- CLASSICAL GENETICS -- CYTOGENETICS -- CYTOGENETIC TECHNIQUES -- FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION -- MICROBIAL GENETICS -- MOLECULAR GENETICS -- MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES -- POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION -- DNA FINGERPRINTING -- IMMUNOGENETICS -- GENOMICS -- SEQUENCING AND BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS OF GENOMES -- FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS -- GENE IDENTIFICATION BY MICROARRAY GENOMIC ANALYSIS -- COMPARATIVE GENOMICS -- POPULATION GENETICS -- EXPERIMENTAL BREEDING -- MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES -- HARDY-WEINBERG LAW -- GENETIC DRIFT -- FOUNDER PRINCIPLE -- BEHAVIOUR GENETICS -- EARLY HISTORY OF BEHAVIOUR GENETICS -- METHODS OF BEHAVIOUR GENETICS STUDY -- STUDY OF HUMAN GENETICS -- EPIGENETICS -- STEM CELLS -- EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS -- ADULT STEM CELLS -- INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS -- RNA INTERFERENCE -- CHAPTER 5 GENETIC ENGINEERING -- RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY -- DNA CLONING -- CREATING THE CLONE -- ISOLATING THE CLONE.

DNA SEQUENCING -- IN VITRO MUTAGENESIS -- GENE THERAPY -- REVERSE GENETICS -- DIAGNOSTICS -- PROTEIN MANUFACTURE -- GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS -- GMOS IN AGRICULTURE -- GMOS IN MEDICINE AND RESEARCH -- ROLE OF GMOS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- SOCIOPOLITICAL RELEVANCE OF GMOS -- CLONING -- EARLY CLONING EXPERIMENTS -- REPRODUCTIVE CLONING -- THERAPEUTIC CLONING -- ETHICAL CONTROVERSIES OF CLONING -- CHAPTER 6 GENETICS APPLIED TO PLANTS AND ANIMALS -- PLANT BREEDING -- GOALS -- EVALUATION OF PLANTS -- METHODS OF PLANT BREEDING -- ANIMAL BREEDING -- BREEDING AND VARIATION -- BREEDING -- SELECTION -- BREEDING SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER 7 HUMAN GENETICS -- THE HUMAN CHROMOSOMES -- THE HUMAN GENOME -- ROLE OF THE HUMAN GENOME IN RESEARCH -- ORIGINS OF THE HUMAN GENOME -- SOCIAL IMPACTS OF HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH -- THE GENETICS OF HUMAN BLOOD -- BLOOD TYPES -- SERUM PROTEINS -- HEMOGLOBIN -- THE GENETICS OF ANTIBODY FORMATION -- THE GENETICS OF CELLULAR IMMUNITY -- INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT -- FRATERNAL TWINS -- IDENTICAL TWINS -- DIAGNOSIS OF TWIN TYPES -- INFERENCES FROM TWIN STUDIES -- GENETICS AND THE CONCEPT OF RACE -- MODERN SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF HUMAN BIOLOGICAL VARIATION -- THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE OVER "RACE" -- CHAPTER 8 GENETIC DISEASES OF HUMANS -- CLASSES OF GENETIC DISEASE -- DISEASES CAUSED BY CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE SEX CHROMOSOMES -- DISEASES OF AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE -- DISEASES OF AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE -- REPEAT EXPANSIONS -- MITOCHONDRIAL DNA MUTATIONS -- IMPRINTED GENE MUTATIONS -- DISEASES CAUSED BY MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE -- GENETICS OF CANCER -- GENETIC DAMAGE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS -- MANAGEMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE -- GENETIC COUNSELING -- CALCULATING RISKS OF KNOWN CARRIERS -- ESTIMATING PROBABILITY: BAYES'S THEOREM -- PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS -- GENETIC TESTING.

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