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
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Breeding the Human Herd: Eugenics, Dysgenics and the Future of the Species
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 Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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 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)
Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiHuman Diversity by Charles MurrayThe Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein
Sober Provocations and Perspectives
107 books — 35 voters
The Dressmaker's Mirror by Susan Weiss LiebmanYou'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by Rachel Lynn SolomonHair Colour in the Horse by Reiner GeurtsThe Mutant Project by Eben KirkseyScience in Black and White by Alondra Oubré
Books on Genetics
16 books — 7 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank Herbert
Genetics in Science Fiction
223 books — 184 voters
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaGenome by Matt RidleyHealthcare From The Trenches by Alejandro BadiaButchered by "Healthcare" by Robert A. YohoThe Aquatic Ape Hypothesis by Elaine Morgan
So you want to get into medicine
110 books — 20 voters


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Rebecca Skloot
Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. Scient ...more
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