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 Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
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
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
329 books — 107 voters
You Have a Match by Emma LordThe Truth Project by Dante MedemaThis Golden State by Marit WeisenbergTruth Be Told by Sue DivinLittle Pieces of Me by Alison Hammer
DNA / Genetic Tests in Fiction
21 books — 4 voters

The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGenome by Matt RidleyThe Violinist's Thumb by Sam KeanThe Double Helix by James D. WatsonThe Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Genetics for Non-Scientists
65 books — 56 voters
Genetics by Leland H. HartwellGenetics by Benjamin A. PierceLewin's GENES XI by Jocelyn E. KrebsHuman Genetics by Ricki LewisMolecular Biology of the Gene by James D. Watson
Open Syllabus Genetics Books
113 books — 2 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaParasite Rex by Carl ZimmerIn the Shadow of Man by Jane GoodallThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Biology
162 books — 26 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
97 books — 89 voters


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