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Gene action : a historical account /

As a college student, Werner Maas took a course in genetics in 1941 and wondered why so little was said about the biochemical action of genes in controlling the specific function of an organism. Just at that time, biochemists and geneticists began to investigate jointly the basis of gene action, esp...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maas, Werner Karl, 1921-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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  • Contents
  • I: The Classical Period, 1860â€?1940
  • 1 Overture: The Garden of Mendel
  • 2 Building a Scaffold: Genes Within Chromosomes
  • II: One Geneâ€?One Enzyme, 1900â€?1953
  • 3 The Dawn of the One Geneâ€?One Enzyme Hypothesis During the Classical Period
  • 4 The Neurospora Era
  • 5 Escherichia coli Enters the Field
  • 6 Biochemical Genetics in Escherichia coli
  • 7 The Chemical Nature of Genes
  • III: How Genes Determine Protein Structure, 1953â€?1965
  • 8 Building a Theoretical Framework for Gene Action
  • 9 Biochemical Identification of Adaptors
  • 10 The Elusive Messenger11 Deciphering the Code
  • IV: Regulation or Gene Action
  • 12 Feedback Control of Biosynthetic Pathways
  • 13 Adaptive Enzymes
  • 14 The Operon Model
  • V: In the Aftermath of the Operon Model, 1965â€?2000
  • 15 The Floodgates Open
  • Appendix: Further Readings and Comments
  • Index
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