It's in Your DNA
From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging
- 1st Edition - April 11, 2017
- Author: Eugene Rosenberg
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 0 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 6 8 - 7
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Request a sales quote- Highlights the importance of DNA research to science and medicine
- Explains in a simple but scientifically correct manner the key experiments and concepts that led to the current knowledge of what DNA is, how it works, and the increasing impact it has on our lives
- Emphasizes the observations and reasoning behind each novel idea and the critical experiments that were performed to test them
Researchers, academics, and students in life sciences, for example in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, biochemistry, genetics/molecular genetics, epidemiology, oncology, gerontology, cell biology, and microbiology, as well as many disciplines beyond biological science; secondarily, as an auxiliary text for specific courses and seminars at colleges and universities
Chapter 1: The Beginning
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Chapter 2: Chemistry of DNA
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Chapter 3: DNA Is the Genetic Material
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Chapter 4: DNA in Three Dimensions: The Double-Helix
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Chapter 5: Duplicating DNA
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Chapter 6: From Genes to Enzymes
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Chapter 7: Cracking the Genetic Code
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Chapter 8: DNA Sequencing and PCR
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Chapter 9: Jumping Genes
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Chapter 10: Genetic Engineering
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Chapter 11: The Human Genome
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Chapter 12: Human Microbiome: We Are Not Alone
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Chapter 13: Contribution of Microbes to the Health of Humans, Animals, and Plants
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Chapter 14: Origin of Nucleic Acids and the First Cells
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Chapter 15: Evolution: From Darwin to the Hologenome Concept
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Chapter 16: DNA and Cancer
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Chapter 17: DNA, Aging, and Death
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Appendix: Nobel Prizes Awarded for Nucleic Acid Research
- No. of pages: 218
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 11, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128125021
- eBook ISBN: 9780128125687
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