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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chromosomes)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,460 ratings — published 1999
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as chromosomes)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,060 ratings — published 2017
Entanglement (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as chromosomes)
avg rating 3.33 — 711 ratings — published 2012
“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.”
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“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. Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks