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Concepts of Genetics
For one- or two-term courses in Genetics in the departments of Biology, Zoology, Agriculture or Health Science.This text is known for its clear writing style, emphasis on concepts, visual art program and thoughtful coverage of all areas of genetics. The authors capture students' interest with up-to-date coverage of cutting edge topics and research. This text will help students connect the science of genetics to the issues of today through interesting and thought-provoking applications. The sixth edition boasts the next generation of media integration including Gen CD-X (student CD-ROM and Companion Website).
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February 26, 2025
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March 12, 2023Bacteriophages are viruses that have bacteria as their hosts.
1986, forensic scientist. blood typing and fingerprint analysis, bite mark comparisons and hair microscopy.
DNA profiles can now be obtained from saliva left on cigarette butts or postage stamps, pet hairs found at crime scenes, or bloodspots the size of pinheads. Even biological samples that are degraded by fire or time
X-ray diffraction studies have established a regularity in the molecule and a constant diameter of about 30 Å.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database is a catalog of human genes and human genetic disorders that are inherited in a Mendelian manner. The OMIM database is a daily-updated version of the book Mendelian Inheritance in Man, edited by Dr. Victor McKusick
1. To begin the search, access the OMIM site at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ query.fcgi?db=OMIM&itool=toolbar.
2. In the “SEARCH” box, type “sickle-cell anemia” and click on the “Go” button to perform the search.
5. Select one or two references at the bottom of the page and follow them to their abstracts in PubMed.
a. Which gene is mutated in individuals with sickle-cell anemia?
For a fee, some companies offer amniocentesis and ultrasound tests for prenatal sex determination.
In Western industrial countries, new genetics and reproductive technologies offer parents ways to select their children’s gender prior to implantation of the embryo in the uterus—called preimplantation gender selection (PGS). Following in vitro fertilization, embryos are biopsied and assessed for gender. Only sex- selected embryos are then implanted. PGS may reduce the number of abortions. It is also possible that PGS may increase the happiness of both parents and children, as the children would be more “wanted.” the gender-selection genie is now out of the bottle and is unwilling to return.
masteringgenetics.com
in 1998, the Icelandic Parliament passed a law granting deCODE Genetics, a biotechnology company with headquarters in Iceland, a license to create and operate a database containing detailed information drawn from medical histories of all of Iceland’s 270,000 residents. The records in this Icelandic Health Sector Database (HSD)
The largest is the “UK Biobank” effort launched in Great Britain in 2003. There, a huge database containing the genetic information of 500,000 Britons
The set of alleles for a given trait carried by an organism is called the genotype.
Viruses that attack bacteria are called bacteriophages, or phages for short
deciphering the structure of the DNA molecule and the mechanism by which information stored in it is expressed to produce an observable trait, called the phenotype.
In DNA, there are four different nucleotides. Each DNA nucleotide contains one of four nitrogenous bases, abbreviated A (adenine), G (guanine), T (thymine), or C (cytosine).
By lowering the energy of activation in reactions, enzymes enable cellular metabolism to proceed at body temperatures, when otherwise those reactions would require intense heat or pressure in order to occur.
45 percent of the U.S. corn crop and 95 percent of the U.S. soybean crop is genetically modified. In addition, more than 60 percent of the canola crop and 85 percent of the cotton crop are grown from genetically modified strains.
Vitamin A deficiency causes more than 500,000 cases of blindness in children each year.
This nuclear transfer method makes it possible to produce large numbers of offspring with desirable traits. produced by cloning using an adult with a desirable trait.
can a transgenic plant or animal be patented? The answer is yes.
every childbearing couple stands an approximately 3 percent risk of having a child with some form of genetic anomaly.
genetic testing and other technologies, including gene therapy
Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant with a short life cycle, has become a model organism for the study of many other aspects of plant biology.
Microbes that have become model organisms for genetic studies include (a) the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and (b) the bacterium Escherichia coli.
1986, forensic scientist. blood typing and fingerprint analysis, bite mark comparisons and hair microscopy.
DNA profiles can now be obtained from saliva left on cigarette butts or postage stamps, pet hairs found at crime scenes, or bloodspots the size of pinheads. Even biological samples that are degraded by fire or time
X-ray diffraction studies have established a regularity in the molecule and a constant diameter of about 30 Å.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database is a catalog of human genes and human genetic disorders that are inherited in a Mendelian manner. The OMIM database is a daily-updated version of the book Mendelian Inheritance in Man, edited by Dr. Victor McKusick
1. To begin the search, access the OMIM site at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ query.fcgi?db=OMIM&itool=toolbar.
2. In the “SEARCH” box, type “sickle-cell anemia” and click on the “Go” button to perform the search.
5. Select one or two references at the bottom of the page and follow them to their abstracts in PubMed.
a. Which gene is mutated in individuals with sickle-cell anemia?
For a fee, some companies offer amniocentesis and ultrasound tests for prenatal sex determination.
In Western industrial countries, new genetics and reproductive technologies offer parents ways to select their children’s gender prior to implantation of the embryo in the uterus—called preimplantation gender selection (PGS). Following in vitro fertilization, embryos are biopsied and assessed for gender. Only sex- selected embryos are then implanted. PGS may reduce the number of abortions. It is also possible that PGS may increase the happiness of both parents and children, as the children would be more “wanted.” the gender-selection genie is now out of the bottle and is unwilling to return.
masteringgenetics.com
in 1998, the Icelandic Parliament passed a law granting deCODE Genetics, a biotechnology company with headquarters in Iceland, a license to create and operate a database containing detailed information drawn from medical histories of all of Iceland’s 270,000 residents. The records in this Icelandic Health Sector Database (HSD)
The largest is the “UK Biobank” effort launched in Great Britain in 2003. There, a huge database containing the genetic information of 500,000 Britons
The set of alleles for a given trait carried by an organism is called the genotype.
Viruses that attack bacteria are called bacteriophages, or phages for short
deciphering the structure of the DNA molecule and the mechanism by which information stored in it is expressed to produce an observable trait, called the phenotype.
In DNA, there are four different nucleotides. Each DNA nucleotide contains one of four nitrogenous bases, abbreviated A (adenine), G (guanine), T (thymine), or C (cytosine).
By lowering the energy of activation in reactions, enzymes enable cellular metabolism to proceed at body temperatures, when otherwise those reactions would require intense heat or pressure in order to occur.
45 percent of the U.S. corn crop and 95 percent of the U.S. soybean crop is genetically modified. In addition, more than 60 percent of the canola crop and 85 percent of the cotton crop are grown from genetically modified strains.
Vitamin A deficiency causes more than 500,000 cases of blindness in children each year.
This nuclear transfer method makes it possible to produce large numbers of offspring with desirable traits. produced by cloning using an adult with a desirable trait.
can a transgenic plant or animal be patented? The answer is yes.
every childbearing couple stands an approximately 3 percent risk of having a child with some form of genetic anomaly.
genetic testing and other technologies, including gene therapy
Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant with a short life cycle, has become a model organism for the study of many other aspects of plant biology.
Microbes that have become model organisms for genetic studies include (a) the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and (b) the bacterium Escherichia coli.
April 14, 2014
Read chapters 1 - 5, 8 - 15 for my second year genetics class.
Overall, a very basic overview of genetics, covering topics like mitosis, meiosis, Mendel, various modes of inheritance like epistasis, lethal, duplicate genes, complementations. It was a great resource to fall back on whenever the prof failed to explain things clearly. (Which, unfortunately, was 90% of the time). This book could have possibly saved my grades in my genetics class, but I feel like the explanations of certain concepts were still lacking. There was a part in the textbook where it explained a Gain of Function mutation to be usually dominant because expressed most of the time. Okay...go on...?
Also, the topics jumped around waaaay too much for it to hold any cohesion. In Chapter 4, it will reference something in Chapters 21 along the lines of "Oh, we'll go into more details in chapters 21 so on't worry about it now." But when you go to chapters 21, the explanation was far from perfect. This made the textbook harder to read than it should have. I found myself having to connect the dots myself, linking random tidbits from random chapters together for a complete picture.
So was this book worth $150? Certainly not. But if you were to randomly meet a pirate on your journey across the World Wide Sea, then I think this book will be a decent resource of any first or second year science student.
Overall, a very basic overview of genetics, covering topics like mitosis, meiosis, Mendel, various modes of inheritance like epistasis, lethal, duplicate genes, complementations. It was a great resource to fall back on whenever the prof failed to explain things clearly. (Which, unfortunately, was 90% of the time). This book could have possibly saved my grades in my genetics class, but I feel like the explanations of certain concepts were still lacking. There was a part in the textbook where it explained a Gain of Function mutation to be usually dominant because expressed most of the time. Okay...go on...?
Also, the topics jumped around waaaay too much for it to hold any cohesion. In Chapter 4, it will reference something in Chapters 21 along the lines of "Oh, we'll go into more details in chapters 21 so on't worry about it now." But when you go to chapters 21, the explanation was far from perfect. This made the textbook harder to read than it should have. I found myself having to connect the dots myself, linking random tidbits from random chapters together for a complete picture.
So was this book worth $150? Certainly not. But if you were to randomly meet a pirate on your journey across the World Wide Sea, then I think this book will be a decent resource of any first or second year science student.
February 2, 2016
The concepts were clearly explained. 4/5
June 2, 2018
Student-friendly.
June 16, 2019
great book
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December 2, 2024
Gutes Buch mit tollen Abbildungen. Vermittelt gut den Inhalt. Allerdings könnte es manchmal etwas mehr auf die Abbildungen eingehen und diese besser erklären.
December 29, 2008
Just in case for whatever reason you were interested in learning genetics. Pretty much read this one cover to cover this semester.
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March 10, 2013I read the 2nd edition. It was my first genetics textbook. I thought it was excellent. I am looking forward to the changes in the 12th edition.
December 30, 2014
Great book, very efficient teaching if you don't procrastinate till the last two days. The story parts are a bit long for some topics, though.
January 27, 2015
My professor suggested me Gardner's Genetics but after studying that book am not satisfied. Its when I study this book I start loving genetics and molecular biology more than any subject.
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November 15, 2015awesome
September 21, 2016
BIOL 3451: Genetics
April 30, 2024
Do not read
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July 28, 2016The new edition is ok . Good reference source
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