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The double helix : a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA / by Watson, James D.,1928-; Stent, Gunther S.(Gunther Siegmund),1924-2008.;
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Reviews.; Watson, James D., 1928-; DNA.; Genetic code.; Molecular biology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Genetics : the code of life / by Guttman, Burton S.(CARDINAL)732055;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-294) and index.Genetics : past, present, and future. The search for order and meaning ; The modern image of science ; The prospects of modern genetics -- From myth to modern science. Primitive interest in heredity ; Mythology and the domestication of plants and animals ; Heredity in human society ; How are children made? -- What is inherited? Cellular structure ; Molecular structure ; Growth and biosynthesis ; Enzymes ; Synthesizing polymers ; Cells as self-renewing, self-reproducing factories -- The breakthrough : Mendel's Laws. Mendel's discoveries ; Pedigrees ; Another example : tasters and non-tasters ; Blood types ; Multiple alleles and dominance ; Test crosses ; Probability ; Two or more genes ; Mendel's first law and disputed paternity ; Answers to blood types questions -- Chromosomes, reproduction, and sex. Cells and reproduction ; Mitosis and the cell cycle ; Karyotypes ; Meiosis ; Meiosis explains Mendel ; The location of genes ; Sex chromosomes ; Nondisjunction of chromosomes ; XYY males : a genetic dilemma -- The function of genes. Genes and metabolic disease ; Genes and enzymes ; Proteins and information ; Modification of hereditary disease -- The hereditary material, DNA. Bacteria ; The first clue ; Bacteriophages ; The Hershey-Chase experiment ; DNA structure ; Genetic implications ; Testing DNA structure -- The genetic dissection of gene structure. Gene arrangement ; Crossing over within genes ; Phage genetics ; Fine structure of genes ; Complementation and the definition of a gene ; What is a gene? ; Restriction enzymes and palindromes ; Restriction mapping -- Deciphering the code of life. How are proteins made? ; RNA molecules : the tools for protein synthesis ; RNA transcription ; The translation process ; The complexity of eucaryotic genes ; Cracking the code ; Colinearity of genes and proteins ; Stop codons ; Universality of the code -- Heredity in the bacterial world. Mutant bacteria ; Sex in E. coli ; Plasmids ; Resistance factors and antibiotic resistance ; Lysogeny ; Gene transfer by virus ; Transduction in humans -- Gene regulation and development. Bacterial gene regulation ; Regulating eucaryotic genes ; Embryonic development in general ; Regulation by time in a chick's wing ; Determination by position in a fly's body ; Forming a fly's eye -- DNA manipulation : the return of epimethius? Recombinant DNA and restriction enzymes ; Studies of individual cloned fragments ; Transgenic organisms ; Human gene therapy ; Genomics, the study of complete genomes -- The geneticist as Dr. Frankenstein. The regulation of recombinant-DNA research ; Genetically modified organisms ; Technology in context ; The arguments against producing GMOs ; Cloning as an ethical target ; The responsibility of scientists -- The fountain of change : mutation. Mutation rates ; Mutation in humans ; Radiation ; What are mutations like? ; DNA repair systems ; General effects of radiation ; Chromosome aberrations ; Looking at human chromosomes ; Aneuploidy ; Duplications and deficiencies ; Inversions ; Translocations -- Evolutionary genetics. Evidence for evolution ; Evolution as a process ; Population genetics ; Human evolution ; The migration and diversification of Homo sapiens ; Eugenics.Details the history of the study of genetics, from Mendel's discoveries to the decoding of the human genome, and explains the fundamentals of genetics, the function of genes, and DNA manipulation.
Subjects: Genetics;
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The double helix : a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA / by Watson, James D.,1928-(CARDINAL)331103; Stent, Gunther S.(Gunther Siegmund),1924-2008.(CARDINAL)150134;
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Subjects: Biographies.; DNA; Genetic code; Molecular biologists; Molecular biology;
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The code breaker [sound recording] : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code / by Isaacson, Walter,author.(CARDINAL)170977; Durand, Sarah,author.(CARDINAL)354703; Mazur, Kathe,narrator.(CARDINAL)543054;
Read by Kathe Mazur.When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules, an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat, the coronavirus, and you have just been given a front row seat to that war.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Biographies.; Doudna, Jennifer A.; Geneticists; CRISPR (Genetics); Gene editing; Genetics; Geneticists; Women scientists; Women; Gene editing; Biochemists; Biotechnology; Nobel Prize winners; Women scientists;
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The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code / by Isaacson, Walter,author.(CARDINAL)170977; Durand, Sarah,author,adaptor.(CARDINAL)354703;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320)."Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers."--"When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that war." --Ages 8-12Grades 4-61180L
Subjects: Biographies.; Doudna, Jennifer A.; CRISPR (Genetics); Gene editing; Genetics; Biochemists; Nobel Prize winners; Women scientists; Gene editing; Biotechnology;
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Genetics : breaking the code of your DNA / by Mooney, Carla,1970-author.(CARDINAL)349099; Carbaugh, Samuel,illustrator.(CARDINAL)591341;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-117) and index.Provides an introduction to the field of genetics, including how DNA is structured, how genetic inheritance works, and how new discoveries in genetics have helped to cure or prevent diseases.1040L
Subjects: Genetics; Genes; DNA;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 14
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Correcting the code : inventing the genetic cure for the human body / by Thompson, Larry.(CARDINAL)770760;
Subjects: Anderson, W. French, 1936-; Gene therapy.;
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The violinist's thumb : and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code / by Kean, Sam.(CARDINAL)325615;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; DNA; Human genetics;
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The violinist's thumb [large print] : and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code / by Kean, Sam.(CARDINAL)325615;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-620).Genes, freaks, DNA : how do living things pass down traits to their children? -- The near death of Darwin : why did geneticists try to kill natural selection? -- Them's the DNA breaks : how does nature read - and misread - DNA? -- The musical scores of DNA : what kinds of information does DNA store? -- DNA vindication : why did life evolve so slowly - then explode in complexity? -- The survivors, the livers : what's our most ancient and important DNA? -- The Machiavelli microbe : how much human DNA is actually human? -- Love and atavisms : what genes make mammals mammals? -- Humanzees and other near misses : when did humans break away from monkeys, and why? -- Scarlet A's, C's, G's, and T's : why did humans almost go extinct? -- Size matters : how did humans get such grotesquely large brains? -- The art of the gene : how deep in our DNA is artistic genius? -- The past is prologue - sometimes : what can (and can't) genes teach us about historical heroes? -- Three billion little pieces : why don't humans have more genes than other species? -- Easy come, easy go? : how come identical twins aren't identical? -- Life as we do (and don't know it : what the heck will happen now? -- Epilogue : genomics gets personal."In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking. They can even allow some people, because of the exceptional flexibility of their thumbs and fingers, to become truly singular violinists. Kean's vibrant storytelling once again makes science entertaining, explaining human history and whimsy while showing how DNA will influence our species' future"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Genetics; Human genetics;
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The annotated and illustrated double helix / by Watson, James D.,1928-(CARDINAL)331103; Witkowski, J. A.(Jan Anthony),1947-(CARDINAL)744420; Watson, James D.,1928-Double helix.(CARDINAL)518005; Gann, Alexander.(CARDINAL)687925;
Includes bibliographical references and index.On the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick receiving the Nobel Prize, a freshly annotated and illustrated edition of The Double Helix provides new insights into the personal relationships among James Watson, Frances Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and a scientific revolution. In his 1968 memoir, The Double Helix, James Watson offered a thrilling drama of the race among scientists to identify the structure of DNA. Professors Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski have built upon this narrative; juxtaposing Watsons' racy account with the commentary of other protagonists offering an enhanced perspective of the now legendary story. They have mined many sources: including a trove of newly discovered correspondence belonging to Francis Crick mislaid some fifty years earlier; excerpts from the papers of Maurice Wilkins, Linus Pauling, and Rosalind Franklin; and a chapter that had been dropped from the original. After half a century, the implications of the double helix keep rippling outward; the tools of molecular biology have forever transformed the life sciences. The New Annotated and Illustrated Edition of The Double Helix adds a richness to the account of the momentous events that led the charge. The Double Helix is the best book I know about a scientific discovery this new edition suffuses the whole with social history, fascinating documentation, photography, and cunning background research. The early fifties, the beginning of the modern age of molecular biology, spring to life. Ian McEwan, author of Atonement --Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Watson, James D., 1928-; DNA; Genetic code; Molecular biology; Molecular biologists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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