The Search for the Gene (Comstock Book)
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ISBN: 0801499674 / Publisher: Cornell University Press, October 1992
From Gregor Mendel's experiments on garden peas to the mammoth Human Genome Project of today—how did we get where we are in the science of genetics? In this intriguing book, Bruce Wallace examines the concept of the gene and recounts the history of...
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Wallace takes readers (students and curious nonspecialists) on a search for the gene that covers the work of early microscopists, plant hybridizers, and Mendel, and traces efforts to locate the gene first on chromosomes and then at specific loci on chromosomes, leading to the conclusion that DNA, not protein, is the substance of genetics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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