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In pursuit of the gene : from Darwin to DNA /

Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. This book offers readers the background they need to understand the latest findings in genetics and those still to come in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwartz, James, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Viva pangenesis
  • Reversion to the mean
  • Galton's disciples
  • Pangenes
  • Mendel
  • Rediscovery
  • Mendel wars
  • Cell biology
  • Sex chromosomes
  • The fly room
  • Oenothera reconsidered
  • X-rays
  • Triumph of the modern gene.