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When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish : And Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body.
From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the cu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish; Chapter One: It Takes Two to Tango; Chapter Two: Just One Bad Apple ... ; Chapter Three: You Can Blame It on Mom; Chapter Four: Leaving an Imprint; Chapter Five: Just a Little Piece of the Puzzle; Chapter Six: In the Beginning ... ; Epilogue: Snippets of Information Reveal the Whole?; Appendix: A Genetics Primer; References; Index.