Genetic analysis a history of genetic thinking

There is a paradox lying at the heart of the study of heredity. To understand the ways in which features are passed down from one generation to the next, we have to dig deeper and deeper into the ultimate nature of things - from organisms, to genes, to molecules. And yet as we do this, increasingly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Falk, Raphael, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2009.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42017221*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The biologization of inheritance
  • Mendel : the design of an experiment
  • From faktoren to unit characters
  • The demise of the unit character
  • Chromosomes and Mendelian faktoren
  • Mapping the chromosomes
  • Cytogenetic analysis of the chromosomes
  • Characterizing the gene
  • Analysis of the gene by mutations
  • From evolution to population genetics
  • Recruiting bacteria and their viruses
  • Molecular "cytogenetics"
  • Recombination molecularized
  • How do genes do it?
  • The path from DNA to protein
  • Genes in the service of development
  • Extending hybridization to molecules
  • Overcoming the dogma
  • Dominance
  • Populations evolve, organisms develop.