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  title info:
    title: Genetic engineering
    sub title: manipulating the mechanisms of life
  name:
    name part: Hodge, Russ
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 219 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: From breeding to a science of heredity -- The origins of domestic plants and animals -- The rise of agriculture and domestication -- Early ideas of inheritance -- The girl who gave birth to rabbits -- Heredity and the theory of evolution -- Gregor Mendel discovers the laws of heredity -- Classical genetics (1900-1950) -- Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes -- The rediscovery of Mendel's work -- Chromosomes and heredity -- The debate over natural selection -- Sex and the X-Y chromosomes -- Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory -- Gene maps -- Chromosome puzzles -- Maize and "jumping genes" -- "One gene makes one enzyme" -- Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970) -- Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes -- Genes are made of DNA -- The double helix -- RNA is the messenger -- The architecture of genes -- On-off switches for genes -- The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms -- The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990) -- Recombinant DNA -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knockouts, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions -- Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics -- Transgenic animals and models of human disease -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genetic engineering in the age of genomes -- The complexity of genomes -- Introns and alternative splicing -- Noncoding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knockouts -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- DNA vaccines and T-cell therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and co…
  note: Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-205) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Genetic Engineering
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: Organisms, Genetically Modified
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: Genetic engineering
    genre: Popular works
  classification: QH442 .H628 2009
  classification: 660.6/5
  classification: 2009 H-970
  classification: QU 450 H688g 2009
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Genetics and evolution
  identifier: 9780816066810 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 0816066817 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008033700
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033700.html
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    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033700.html
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    record creation date: 080731
    record change date: 20151111080827.0
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