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Understanding DNA and gene cloning : a guide for the curious
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Publisher's description: With DNA and gene cloning all over the news, readers need to understand the ongoing genetic revolution. In this highly acclaimed guide, Karl Drlica fully explains the basic...
Publisher's description: With DNA and gene cloning all over the news, readers need to understand the ongoing genetic revolution. In this highly acclaimed guide, Karl Drlica fully explains the basic science and technology readers need to understand the issues and make crucial decisions. Each step of the way he explains complex topics using easy-to-understand analogies.
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- Creator
- Karl Drlica
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- 4th ed
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2004]
- ©2004
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- xiv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0471434167, 9780471434160
- OCLC
- ocm51637651
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.
- Preview: Life as interacting molecules -- PART I. BASIC MOLECULAR GENETICS -- Structure of DNA: two long, interwound chains -- Reproducing DNA: information transfer from one generation to the next -- Gene expression: cellular use of genetic information -- PART II. MANIPULATING DNA -- Microbial growth: one-celled organisms as tools for gene cloning -- Plasmids and phages: submicroscopic parasites used to deliver genes to cells -- Cutting and joining DNA: restriction endonucleases and ligases used to restructure DNA molecules -- Using complementary base pairing: hybridization, probes, and amplification using PCR -- Cloning genes: isolation of a hemoglobin gene -- Using cloned genes: gene structure, expression vectors, and gene function -- PART III. MODERN MOLECULAR GENETICS -- Beyond the central dogma: a sampling of insights derived from gene cloning -- Retroviruses: AIDS and gene delivery -- Cancer genes: the loss of growth control -- PART IV: HUMAN GENETICS -- Heredity: patterns of inheritance and genetic instability -- Application of human genetics: genetic testing, gene therapy, and DNA fingerprinting -- PART V. WHOLE GENOMES -- Genomics: using whole genomes to study life
Subjects
- Molecular cloning.
- Recombinant DNA.
- Genetic engineering.
- Genetics.
- Cloning, Molecular.
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- DNA, Recombinant
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- Genetic Engineering
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- Molecular Biology
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