Download or read book The Wonder of Genetics written by Richard V. Kowles and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kowles devotes separate chapters to popular genetic topics, addresses misconceptions, and emphasizes the disciplines potential for curing some diseases, extending human lifespan, enhancing medicine and agriculture, and generally improving society.
Download or read book Human Evolutionary Biology written by Michael P. Muehlenbein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology. The chapters are organized around four broad themes, with sections devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation within and between human populations, reproductive physiology and behavior, growth and development, and human health from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. An introductory section provides readers with the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations needed to understand the more complex ideas presented later. Two hundred discussion questions provide starting points for class debate and assignments to test student understanding.
Download or read book The Tangled Field written by Nathaniel C. COMFORT and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical study illuminates the important yet misunderstood figure of Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winning geneticist. Comfort replaces the myth with a new story, rich with new understandings of women in science.
Download or read book Experimental Evolution written by Theodore Garland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining current techniques and applications, and presenting the field's range of research.
Download or read book Experimental and Quasi Experimental Designs for Research written by Donald T. Campbell and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We shall examine the validity of 16 experimental designs against 12 common threats to valid inference. By experiment we refer to that portion of research in which variables are manipulated and their effects upon other variables observed. It is well to distinguish the particular role of this chapter. It is not a chapter on experimental design in the Fisher (1925, 1935) tradition, in which an experimenter having complete mastery can schedule treatments and measurements for optimal statistical efficiency, with complexity of design emerging only from that goal of efficiency. Insofar as the designs discussed in the present chapter become complex, it is because of the intransigency of the environment: because, that is, of the experimenter’s lack of complete control.
Download or read book Collected Reprints written by William Bateson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classical Genetic Research and Its Legacy written by Benoit Godin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments and researchers from industrial countries have been measuring science and technology for more than seventy years. This book provides an historical examination of official science and technology statistics and indicators in Western countries and addresses the following questions: What were the main historical moments that led to the development of statistics on science and technology? What were the main socio-political stakes behind the activities of science measurement? What were the philosophical and ideological conceptions that drove measurement? What statistics and indicators were developed and how were they constructed? The first part of the book concentrates on the construction and development of science and technology statistics from 1930 to the present, the principles at work, and the vested interests and forces behind that construction. The second part analyzes to what uses statistics were put, and with how much confidence actors used statistics to document their case or to promote their political agenda.
Download or read book Catalog written by Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insect Control written by G. A. Kerkut and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1985-06-20 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 12 is devoted to current and future approaches to insect management and control. The topics discussed cover chemical control, including the use of juvenile hormone analogs, microbiological methods, including viral and fungal agents, biological control, and genetic approaches to insect control. The 20 chapters, all amply referenced and illustrated, well demonstrate the multidisciplinary nature of the subject and the degree of international effort that has led to the present state of knowledge. Fifteen of the chapters are devoted to the action of insecticides, reflecting the immensity of the subject. The past 30 years have witnessed remarkable advances in the scientific basis of insect control and this volume provides a convenient point of entry into the massive amount of literature now available.
Download or read book The Evolution of Medical Genetics written by Peter S. Harper and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative new book presents an accessible account of the development of medical genetics over the past 70 years, one of the most important areas of 20th, and now 21st, century science and medicine. Based largely on the author’s personal involvement and career as a leader in the field over the last half century, both in the UK and internationally, it draws on his interest and involvement in documenting the history of medical genetics. Underpinning the content is a unique series of 100 recorded interviews undertaken by the author with key older workers in the field, the majority British, providing invaluable information going back to the very beginnings of human and medical genetics. Focusing principally on medically relevant areas of genetics rather than the underlying basic science and technological aspects, the book offers a fascinating insight for those working and training in the field of clinical or laboratory aspects of medical genetics, genomics and allied areas; it will also be of interest to historians of science and medicine and to workers in the social sciences who are increasingly attracted by the social and ethical challenges posed by modern medical genetics and genomics.
Download or read book Thompson Thompson Genetics in Medicine written by James Scott Thompson and published by Philadelphia ; Toronto : Saunders. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of Medical Genetics written by Peter S. Harper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent geneticist, veteran author, OMMG Series Editor, and noted archivist, Peter Harper presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep interest in its historical aspects. Dr. Harper has researched the history of genetics and has had personal contact with a host of key figures whose memories and experiences extend back 50 years, and he has interviewed and recorded conversations with many of these important geneticists. Thus, rather than being a conventional history, this book transmits the essence of the ideas and the people involved and how they interacted in advancing- and sometimes retarding- the field. From the origins of human genetics; through the contributions of Darwin, Mendel, and other giants; the identification of the first human chromosome abnormalities; and up through the completion of the Human Genome project, this Short History is written in the author's characteristic clear and personal style, which appeals to geneticists and to all those interested in the story of human genetics.
Download or read book The Science of Genetics written by George W. Burns and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monohybrid inheritance; Cytological bases of inheritance; Dihybrid inheritance; Probability and goodness of fit; Linkage, crossing-over, and genetic mapping of chromosomes; Multiple alleles, pseudoalleles, and blood group inheritance; Polygenic inheritance; Statistical concepts and tools; Sex determination; Inheritance related to sex; Chromosomal aberrations; Population genetics; The identification of the genetic material; Protein synthesis; The genetic code; Molecular structure of the gene; Regulation of gene action; The question of cytoplasmic genetic systems; Genetics; Problems and promise; Answers to problems; Selected life cycles; The biologically important amino acids; Useful formulas; Ratios and statistics; Useful metric values.
Download or read book Genetics of the Fowl written by F. B. Hutt and published by Norton Creek Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This has been the indispensable companion of chicken breeders since its introduction in 1949. Chapters include the genetics of plumage, egg production, body size, disease resistance, and much more. (Animals/Pets)
Download or read book The Physical Basis of Heredity written by Thomas Hunt Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genetics in Medicine written by James Scott Thompson and published by Philadelphia : Saunders. This book was released on 1966 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genetics written by Thomas R. Mertens and published by Macmillan College. This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual offers a broad and inclusive array of self-contained, open-ended laboratory investigations in both classical and molecular genetics. The book leads readers step-by-step through each investigation using diagrams, photographs, sequenced questions, appropriate references, and worked examples, etc. The investigations use a variety of organisms, are cost efficient, and often focus on cutting-edge topics. It also offers more sophisticated investigations in polygenics, population, molecular, and microbial genetics.
