Pierce, Benjamin A.

Genetics essentials : concepts and connections / Benjamin A. Pierce. - New York : W.H. Freeman, c2010. - xx.458p. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), col. map : 28 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction to genetics -- Chromosomes and cellular reproduction -- Basic principles of heredity -- Extensions and modifications of basic principles -- Linkage, recombination, and eukaryotic gene mapping -- Bacterial and viral genetic systems -- Chromosome variation -- DNA: the chemical nature of the gene -- DNA replication and recombination -- From DNA to proteins: transcription and RNA processing -- From DNA to proteins: translation -- Control of gene expression -- Gene mutations, transposable elements, and DNA repair -- Molecular genetic analysis, biotechnology, and genomics -- Cancer genetics -- Quantitative genetics -- Population and evolutionary genetics.

9781429230407 (pbk.) 1429230401 (pbk.)

2009936816


Genetics.

QH440 / .P54 2010

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