Genetic engineering : manipulating the mechanisms of life / Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal
| データ種別 | 電子書籍 |
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| 出版者 | New York : Facts On File |
| 出版年 | c2009 |
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| 書誌ID | OB00093833 |
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| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references and index From breeding to a science of heredity -- The origins of domestic plants and animals -- The rise of agriculture and domestication -- Early ideas of inheritance -- The girl who gave birth to rabbits -- Heredity and the theory of evolution -- Gregor mendel discovers the laws of heredity -- Classical genetics (1900-1950) -- Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes -- The rediscovery of mendel's work -- The debate over natural selection -- Chromosomes and heredity -- Sex and the X-Y chromosomes -- Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory -- Gene maps -- Chromosome puzzles -- Maize and "jumping genes" -- "One gene makes one enzyme" -- Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970) -- Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes -- Genes are made of DNA -- The double helix -- RNA is the messenger -- The architecture of genes -- On-off switches for genes -- The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms -- The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990) -- Recombinant DNA -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knock outs, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions -- Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics -- Transgenic animals and models of human disease -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genetic engineering in the age of genomes -- The complexity of genomes -- Introns and alternative splicing -- Non-coding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knock outs -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- DNA vaccines and t cell therapies -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics -- GM foods and the rise of environmental movements -- Owning genes, genomes, and living beings -- A look farther ahead. License restrictions may limit access |
| 著者標目 | *Hodge, Russ 1961- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Genetic engineering -- Popular works
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LCSH:Molecular machinery |
| 分 類 | LCC:QH442 DC22:660.6/5 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:9780816066810 RefWorks出力（各巻） ISBN:0816066817 RefWorks出力（各巻） |
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