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    Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide

    By Steve Jones and Borin Van Loon

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    Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being. 

    Introducing Genetics takes us from the early work of Mendel to the discovery of DNA, the human gene map and the treatment of inborn disease. No one can afford to be ignorant of genetics. This book is the perfect introduction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIcon Books
    Release dateJun 5, 2014
    ISBN9781848317819
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    Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide
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    Steve Jones

    Professor Steve Jones was born in Wales, educated in Scotland and lives in London. He is Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory at University College London. His first book, ‘The Language of the Genes’ (1993), won the Rhône-Poulenc Prize for the Best Science Book of the Year. It was based on the Reith Lectures he gave in 1991. He is Co-Editor of the ‘Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution’ and joint author of The Open University final year genetics textbook.

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      What I liked about this book is the amount of detail hidden within these images that talks about what I currently read and I knew that!