Genetics category: 1528 books
Molecular Biology
A Project Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1995
This course manual instructs students in recombinant DNA techniques and other essential molecular biology techniques in the context of projects. The project approach inspires and captivates students; it involves them in the scientific experience, providing continuity to laboratory bench time and an...
by N Saraswathy, P Ramalingam
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Concepts and techniques in genomics and proteomics covers the important concepts of high-throughput modern techniques used in the genomics and proteomics field. Each technique is explained with its underlying concepts, and simple line diagrams and flow charts are included to aid understanding and...
Food, Genes, and Culture
Eating Right for Your Origins
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat.
In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person...
Summary & Study Guide - The Gene Machine
How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids - and the Kids We Have
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions.
The must-read summary of “The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids — and the Kids We Have” by Bonnie Rochman.
This complete summary of Rochman’s book covers...
Biological Identification
DNA Amplification and Sequencing, Optical Sensing, Lab-On-Chip and Portable Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Biological Identification provides a detailed review of, and potential future developments in, the technologies available to counter the threats to life and health posed by natural pathogens, toxins, and bioterrorism agents. Biological identification systems must be fast, accurate, reliable, and easy...
UNIX and Perl to the Rescue!
A Field Guide for the Life Sciences (and Other Data-rich Pursuits)
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Your research has generated gigabytes of data and now you need to analyse it. You hate using spreadsheets but it is all you know, so what else can you do? This book will transform how you work with large and complex data sets, teaching you powerful programming tools for slicing and dicing data to...
Genetic Justice
DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime....
Genetic Explanations
Sense and Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed master molecule, DNA is a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance.
Odd Couples
Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from...
by Blaine Bettinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Unlock the secrets in your DNA!
Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most-cutting edge tool available. This plain-English guide is a one-stop resource for how to use DNA testing for genealogy. Inside, you'll find guidance on what DNA tests are available, plus the...
by O-O Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
We are told today by the scientific community that all humans living today are related directly from a common ancestor who emerged from Africa around 70,000 years ago.
Perhaps this is true, but I doubt it.
I believe the evidence suggests there are three human races.
Read on to find out why...
by Henry Gee
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
What makes us as humans all alike and yet as individuals so different?
Jacob's Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us. Decoding the sequence, evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows, is just the beginning: seeing the letters...
Tears of the Cheetah
The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The history of life on Earth is dominated by extinction events so numerous that over 99.9% of the species ever to have existed are gone forever. If animals could talk, we would ask them to recall their own ancestries, in particular the secrets as to how they avoided almost inevitable annihilation...
Bring Back the King
The New Science of De-extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, and beyond.
De-extinction – the ability to bring extinct species back to life – is...