Genetics (Non-medical)

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for con...

In this volume, the product of decades of study and research, the world's foremost geneticist surveys the major developments in what is emerging as...

From the mid 1990s to the present day, agricultural biotechnology - GM crops and foods - has been the focus of debate and conflict in many European...

This book discusses the evidence for and against the heritability of acquired characters. Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a s...

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The field of metagenomics has revolutionized our comprehension of microbial diversity and function across various habitats, from the human body to ...

This book explains current strategies for mapping genomes of higher organisms and explores applications of gene mapping to agriculturally important...

Population genetics is an inherently quantitative discipline, yet often focuses upon abstract concepts which can be difficult to conceptualize and ...

Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world’s most ingenious and influential scientists. Nonetheless, he remains misund...

The field of forensic DNA analysis has grown immensely in the past two decades and genotyping of biological samples is now routinely performed in h...

'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct specie...

Assembling the work of an international panel of researchers, Mass Spectrometry of Nucleosides and Nucleic Acids summarizes and reviews the latest ...

'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct specie...

Transcription factors are important in regulating gene expression, and their analysis is of paramount interest to molecular biologists studying thi...

The story of our evolutionary past is told in our genome sequence. Human Gene Evolution deals with the origins of human genes, describes their stru...

'An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherf...