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.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Genetics"

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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

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Genetics Books

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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 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 Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

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Quotes Tagged “Genetics”

“ 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 ”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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“ Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them. ”
― Jenna Jameson, How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

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