About this title: Genetics is the newest of all sciences. Nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago, and what Mendel learned was used to justify eugenics and racism. Now genetics is exploding, and before the end of the 20th century we may have the complete code, written in 3,000,000,000 letters of DNA, of what it takes to make a human being. This book goes from Mendel to the human gene map and the treatment of inborn disease, and with the help of Borin Van Loon's illustrations, it shows how DNA was discovered and how some genes may act in their own interests as much as of those ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Totem Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781840466362ISBN:1840466367
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Totem Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781840461206ISBN:1840461209
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Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Introducing...(Totem). Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Fine Condition (Brand new book! ), Original price of $11.95 (Hist/Sci). read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Introducing...(Totem). Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Fine Condition (Brand new book! ), Original price of $11.95 (Hist/Sci). read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Introducing...(Totem). Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Fine Condition (Brand new book! ), Original price of $11.95 (Hist/Sci). read more
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