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" Modern genetics : "
Lisa Yount.
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BL
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952991
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b707361
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Yount, Lisa.
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Modern genetics : : engineering life /\ Lisa Yount.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Chelsea House,, ©2006.
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Milestones in discovery and invention
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xx, 204 pages :: illustrations, 1 map ;; 24 cm.
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0816057443
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: 9780816057443
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Revised edition of: Genetics and genetic engineering, c1997.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-196) and index.
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| Contents
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The code of life: Francis Crick, James Watson, and the structure of DNA -- Gene sandwiches to go: Herbert Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen, and the birth of genetic engineering -- The killers inside: Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and genes that cause cancer -- New genes for old: French Anderson and gene therapy -- Death in the family: Nancy Wexler and genes for inherited diseases -- The life-forever worm: Cynthia Kenyon and the genetics of aging -- Hello, Dolly: Ian Wilmut and cloning -- Out of one, many: James Thomson and embryonic stem cells -- The rice that saves eyes: Ingo Potrykus and golden rice -- The genome race: Francis Collins, Craig Venter, and sequencing the human genome -- Chronology -- Glossary.
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Profiles geneticists and highlights discoveries they have made; includes Gregor Mendel and the laws of inheritance, James Watson and the structure of DNA, and Stanley Cohen and genetic engineering.
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Genetic engineering-- History, Juvenile literature.
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Genetics-- History, Juvenile literature.
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Genetic engineering.
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Geneticists.
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Genetics.
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Genetic Engineering.
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Genetics.
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Genetic engineering.
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Genetics.
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| Dewey Classification
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576.5/09
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QH437.5.Y68 2006
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Yount, Lisa.
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