Genetics Essentials
Concepts and Connections
4th Edition
Published on 23. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-1-319-18797-2 (ISBN)
Description
Derived from his popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Ben Pierce's streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.
With the new edition, Ben Pierce again focuses on the most pervasive problems for students taking genetics-understanding how genetics concepts connect to each other and developing solid problem solving skills. And with this edition, Genetics Essentials is available as a fully integrated text/media resource with SaplingPlus, an online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Pierce's powerful multimedia resources, and Sapling's robust genetics problem library.
With the new edition, Ben Pierce again focuses on the most pervasive problems for students taking genetics-understanding how genetics concepts connect to each other and developing solid problem solving skills. And with this edition, Genetics Essentials is available as a fully integrated text/media resource with SaplingPlus, an online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Pierce's powerful multimedia resources, and Sapling's robust genetics problem library.
More details
Edition
4th ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Macmillan Learning
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
544 p.
Dimensions
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ISBN-13
978-1-319-18797-2 (9781319187972)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
03/2021
5th Edition
W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
€70.61
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Person
Benjamin Pierce - received a B.S. in Biology from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Ben is currently Professor of Biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair at Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX. He is a population geneticist who conducts ecological and evolutionary research on amphibians. Ben has authored a number of articles in research journals and several books, including: The Family Genetics Sourcebook, a guide to genetics for the layperson; Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, a general genetics textbook; Genetics Essentials: Concepts and Connections, a brief genetics textbook; and Transmission and Population Genetics: A Short Course, a textbook for courses in transmission and population genetics.
Content
1. Introduction to Genetics.- 2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction.- 3. Basic Principles of Heredity.- 4. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles.- 5. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping.- 6. Chromosome Variation.- 7. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems.- 8. DNA: The Chemical Nature of the Gene.- 9. DNA Replication and Recombination.- 10. From DNA to Proteins: Transcription and RNA Processing.- 11. From DNA to Proteins: Translation.- 12. Control of Gene Expression.- 13. Gene Mutations, Transposable Elements, and DNA Repair.- 14. Molecular Genetic Analysis and Biotechnology.- 15. Genomics and Proteomics.- 16. Cancer Genetics.- 17. Quantitative Genetics.- 18. Population and Evolutionary Genetics.