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Genetic analysis : a history of genetic thinking /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Falk, Raphael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
Subjects:
Genetics > History.
Genetics.
Genetics > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Table of Contents:
  • The biologization of inheritance
  • Mendel : the design of an experiment
  • From faktoren to unit characters
  • The demise of the unit character
  • Chromosomes and Mendelian faktoren
  • Mapping the chromosomes
  • Cytogenetic analysis of the chromosomes
  • Characterizing the gene
  • Analysis of the gene by mutations
  • From evolution to population genetics
  • Recruiting bacteria and their viruses
  • Molecular "cytogenetics"
  • Recombination molecularized
  • How do genes do it?
  • The path from DNA to protein
  • Genes in the service of development
  • Extending hybridization to molecules
  • Overcoming the dogma
  • Dominance
  • Populations evolve, organisms develop.