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2008033700 |
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DLC |
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20100405 .0 |
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080731s2009 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2008033700 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780816066810 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0816066817 |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QH442 |
| Item number |
.H628 2009 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
660.6/5 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Hodge, Russ, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Genetic engineering : |
| Remainder of title |
manipulating the mechanisms of life / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Facts On File, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2009. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 219 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
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 -- The debate over natural selection -- Chromosomes and heredity -- 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 -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knock outs, 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 -- Non-coding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knock outs -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- DNA vaccines and t cell therapies -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics -- GM foods and the rise of environmental movements -- Owning genes, genomes, and living beings -- A look farther ahead. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Genetic engineering |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033700.html |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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660 HOD |
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310 |
