Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.

See also Science.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Selfish Gene
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
The Epigenetics Revolution
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Double Helix
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
The Laura Line by Crystal  AllenThe Heirs by Susan  RiegerThat Fernhill Summer by Colby Rodowsky
Family Tree Covers
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Women in Science
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Open Syllabus Genetics Books
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Victor Robert Lee
Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.
Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

Iain Reid
Seeing someone with their parents is a tangible reminder that we're all composites. ...more
Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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