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The twentieth century began with the rediscovery of Mendel’s rules of inheritance and ended with the complete sequence of the human genome, one of the most monumental scientific accomplishments of all time. What lies in the future? What will the twenty-first century, the century of genomics, bring? Will geneticists a hundred years from now speak of a complete cure for cancer, heart disease, and mental illness? Will we have a cure for autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and arthritis? Will aging be slowed or even prevented? Will we have a complete understanding of the process of development and a concurrent elimination of birth defects and developmental problems? Will genetics put an end to world hunger? How will we live, and what will be the quality of our lives? The students who now are taking genetics will learn the answers to these questions as time progresses. Some students will contribute to the answers.
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Tamarin divides his chapters into three units (classical, population, and molecular), making it easy for professors to customize their courses to the way they want to teach it and making it easy for the student to differentiate the three areas.
Over 100 pieces of line art are either new or revised, and all of the line art and tables from the text will be available for downloading on the text-specific website.
A large quantity of end-of-chapter problems (including critical thinking questions) are organized under major chapter headings to help students learn in smaller segments and reduce confusion with already challenging subject matter.
Tamarin does an excellent job of distinguishing Eukaryotic from Prokaryotic processes by discussing the same topic but in separate chapters, making it less confusing for the students (i.e. Ch 6 - Linkage Mapping in Eukaryotes; Ch 7 - Linkage Mapping in Prokaryotes and Bacterial Viruses).
Throughout this text, the implications for human health and welfare of the research conducted in universities and research laboratories around the world are pointed out.
Chapter reorganization. The molecular genetics coverage (Chapters 9-17) has been reorganized to include such things as numerous repair DNA polymerases and their functioning, base-flipping, TRAP control of attenuation, and chromatosomes.
Chapter 12 - DNA: Its Mutation, Repair and Recombination has been moved earlier to the text to follow material on transcription and translation.
Chapter 13 - Genomics, Biotechnology, and Recombinant DNA has been updated to place more emphasis on modern-day genomics (The Human Genome Project, bioinformatics, proteomics, and the latest techniques in creating cDNA and knockout mice).
Chapter 16 - Gene Expression: Control in Eukaryotes has been completely reorganized and rewritten to emphasize signal transduction, specific transcription factors, methylation, and chromatin remodeling in control of gene expression with specific sections on Drosophila and plant development, cancer, and immunogenetics.You can customize this book to meet your exact needs and mix and match with other items on Primis Online allowing you maximum choice and flexibility. You can also choose between two delivery formats: custom printed books (in black and white) or custom eBooks (in color).
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