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The ABCs of gene cloning /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Dominic W. S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2006]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Molecular cloning.
Cloning, Molecular.
Clone cells.
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Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Fundamentals of genetic processes - 1. Introductory concepts
  • 2. Structures of nucleic acids
  • 3. Structures of proteins
  • 4. The genetic process
  • 5. Organization of genes
  • 6. Reading the nucleotide sequence of a gene
  • Pt. II. Techniques and strategies of gene cloning
  • 7. Enzymes used in cloning
  • 8. Techniques used in cloning
  • 9. Cloning vectors for introducing genes into host cells
  • 10. Transformation
  • 11. Isolating genes for cloning
  • Pt. 3. Impact of gene cloning : applications in agriculture
  • 12. Improving tomato quality by antisense RNA
  • 13. Transgenic crops engineered with insecticidal activity
  • 14. Transgenic crops conferred with herbicide resistance
  • 15. Growth enhancement in transgenic fish
  • Pt. 4. Impact of gene cloning : applications in medicine
  • 16. Microbial production of recombinant human insulin
  • 17. Finding disease-causing genes
  • 18. Human gene therapy
  • 19. Gene targeting
  • 20. DNA typing
  • 21. Transpharmers : bioreactors for pharmaceutical products
  • 22. Animal cloning
  • 23. Human genome sequencing.