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An Introduction to Genetic Analysis

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With each edition, An Introduction to Genetic Analysis (IGA) evolves discovery by discovery with the world of genetic research, taking students from the foundations of Mendelian genetics to the latest findings and applications by focusing on the landmark experiments that define the field.With its author team of prominent scientists who are also highly accomplished educators, IGA again combines exceptional currency, expansive updating of its acclaimed problem sets, and a variety of new ways to learn genetics. Foremost is this edition’s dedicated version of W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad, which offers a number of new and enhanced interactive tools that advance IGA’s core mission: to show students how to analyze experimental data and draw their own conclusions based on scientific thinking while teaching students how to think like geneticists. See what's in the LaunchPad

891 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1900

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Anthony J.F. Griffiths

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149 reviews239 followers
November 21, 2016
গুডরিডের রেটিংকে বিশ্বাস করবেন না!!! বিশাল পরিসরে লেখার কারনে এই গুফরিডসেই দ্যা সেল নামের অতি বিদঘুটে বইতে ৫/৫রেটিং দিয়ে কিন্তু এই বেচারা ৩এর ঘরে পড়ে থাকে।

ইন্ডিয়ান লেখকেরা মোটামুটি সহজবোধ্য ভাবেই লিখেন কিন্তু এই কথাটা পশ্চিমা লেখকদের বেলায় খাটে না। ইওরোপ আমেরিকার বড় বড় বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এর প্রফেসর হবার কারনে তারা বইয়ে অতি জ্ঞান ঝাড়তে যান ফলাফল সাধারন স্টুডেন্টেদের বাঁশ।

অল্প কিছু লেখক অতি সোজা ভাষায় যা বলতে চেয়েছেন সেটাই একেবারে বুঝাতে পারেন তাদের লেখায়। এই বইটা সেই বিরল প্রজাতির বই গুলার ভিতরে একটা।

বইটার প্রথম ভাল দিক হল প্রতিটা টপিকের শেষে একটা সামারি দেওয়া। বেশি না ২কি ৩ লাইনের সামারি তাতেই পুরো টপিকটা কি বলতে চেয়েছে বুঝে ফেলা যায়।
প্রতিটা ফিগারে ছোট খাট যে ডেসক্রিপশন আছে সেটাও সহজেই পরীক্ষার খাতায় লিখে আসার মত পানি ভাত টাইপ।

মাত্র ৩টা চ্যাপটার পড়া লাগছে সমগ্র বইয়ের কিন্তু তাতেই আমি ফিদা!! বইটার সাজানোর ধরন ,ভাষা, ছোট ছোট টপিকে একটা চ্যাপটার ভাগ করে নেওয়া সব কিছু দেখে মনে হইছে বইটা লিখছেই বিশেষ ভাবে ফাঁকিবাজ স্টুডেন্টের কথা চিন্তা করে।
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124 reviews27 followers
May 20, 2015
This was the assigned textbook for my genetics class, albeit an earlier edition. As such, I didn't read all of it, just the parts germane to the class. Overall though I'd say the book didn't provide as much detail as the professor gave in lecture, so its use as a supplemental resource was limited.
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2,257 reviews93 followers
July 30, 2015
I love biology! So I loved this book! It was extremely helpful and detailed! It gives you enough details for you to understand what is given to you for assignments and to study for exams!
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2,901 reviews99 followers
June 26, 2020
How this book stands out is that it actually provides way more detail than most of the other textbooks of this era.

Honestly, you are better off reading this textbook cover to cover than taking a class.

Sukuzi/Lewontin/Griffiths and company
i think did the strongest book on genetics

and if you pick something like Genes III [or any other edition]
by Benjamin Lewin

you have probably the two most enjoyable Genetics textbooks out there

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423 reviews17 followers
October 25, 2015
UBC, Biol 334 + 335 - Basic Genetics, Molecular Genetics. Practically read through the whole book for these two courses. Able to do fairly well in both courses simply by reading through the textbook. Useful textbook.
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106 reviews11 followers
June 30, 2010
Buku yang semakin nambah edisi nya semakin..tebal...he-he...tapi buku ini seperti buku wajib/pegangan anak2 pemuliaan...dasar-dasar genetika
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66 reviews20 followers
January 29, 2018
As biology textbooks go, this one is pretty easy to read...
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1 review11 followers
January 6, 2019
This book provides a good introduction for some basic and applied concepts in genetics. Yet, you still need to ask your teacher to confirm what you have grasped from this book.
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34 reviews3 followers
December 11, 2022
This is book is as comprehensive and thorough as a good introduction to genetics gets.

What the authors have accomplished (obviously after many editions) is very impressive. The book reads like a scientific saga, and I'm totally gobsmacked by the growth of the field since Mendel and the technological innovations made relatively recently in whole genome sequencing and next gen. sequencing. This book doesn't miss a thing. What's more, it does an excellent job at elucidating the thought processes that go behind the formation of good hypotheses by using real, groundbreaking experiments from the past 100 years that have propelled the field forward.

The writing is effective, the summaries at the end of each important paragraph are helpful, and the occasional delves into the mind of good scientist are invaluable.
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