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The Tangled Field : Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control /

This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Comfort, Nathaniel C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t 1 Myth --   |t 2 Freedom --   |t 3 Integration --   |t 4 Pattern --   |t 5 Control --   |t 6 Complexity --   |t 7 Reception --   |t 8 Response --   |t 9 Renaissance --   |t 10 Synthesis --   |t Appendix: A Molecular Epilogue --   |t Notes --   |t Interviews --   |t Index 
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