Download or read book Genetics For Dummies written by Tara Rodden Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your no-nonsense guide to genetics With rapid advances in genomic technologies, genetic testing has become a key part of both clinical practice and research. Scientists are constantly discovering more about how genetics plays a role in health and disease, and healthcare providers are using this information to more accurately identify their patients' particular medical needs. Genetic information is also increasingly being used for a wide range of non-clinical purposes, such as exploring one's ancestry. This new edition of Genetics For Dummies serves as a perfect course supplement for students pursuing degrees in the sciences. It also provides science-lovers of all skill levels with easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand information about this exciting and constantly evolving field. This edition includes recent developments and applications in the field of genetics, such as: Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing Precision medicine and pharmacogenetics Direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health risks Ancestry testing Featuring information on some of the hottest topics in genetics right now, this book makes it easier than ever to wrap your head around this fascinating subject.
Download or read book Your Genes Your Choices written by Catherine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program discusses the Human Genome Project, the science behind it, and the ethical, legal and social issues raised by the project.
Download or read book Genetics Made Easy written by Jon Adams and published by Green Mountain Computing. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetics Made Easy is not just a book; it's a journey into the heart of what makes us who we are. Written with the non-scientist in mind, it offers a refreshing approach to understanding the complex world of genetics. From the spirals of DNA to the marvels of gene editing, this book unfolds the mysteries of genetics with clarity, simplicity, and profound insight. Dive into the Chapters: The Alphabet of Life: DNA - Begin your journey with the basic building blocks of life, learning how DNA forms the script of our existence. Reading the Genetic Script: From DNA to Traits - Discover how genetic information is translated into the traits that define every organism. Blueprints and Architects: Genetics in Development - Explore the role of genetics in development and how it shapes organisms from conception to maturity. Genetic Editors: Mutation and Variation - Understand the mechanisms behind genetic mutations and the importance of variation for survival and evolution. Interwoven Destinies: Epigenetics and Environment - Delve into the interplay between genetics and the environment, and how external factors can influence gene expression. The Librarian's Code: Genetic Inheritance - Unravel the complexities of genetic inheritance and how traits are passed down through generations. Molecular Scissors: The Revolution of CRISPR - Get acquainted with CRISPR, the groundbreaking gene-editing technology that is reshaping the future of medicine and biology. The Future of Genetics: Ethics and Possibilities - Reflect on the ethical considerations and the vast potential that genetic research holds for humanity. Introduction to Genetics Made Easy: Embark on an enlightening expedition through the world of genetics, where complex concepts are made accessible through vivid examples, engaging analogies, and compelling explanations. This book is designed to clear the fog that often surrounds genetic science, illuminating each topic with the clarity of the morning sun. "Genetics Made Easy" is crafted for anyone eager to understand the language of life, whether you're a student, a professional in the medical or biotech fields, or simply curious about the genetic codes that write our existence. With a narrative as warm and inviting as a conversation with a friend, this book promises to open your mind and stir your sense of wonder. Why You Need This Book: For clarity: If genetics has always seemed like a dense forest of acronyms and abstract theories, this book is your path to understanding. For curiosity: Feed your curiosity about how life is written and rewritten at the molecular level. For appreciation: Gain a deeper appreciation for the intricate dance of nature's elements that weave the fabric of life. Takeaway: "Genetics Made Easy" invites you on an adventure into the genetic universe, promising not just knowledge but a profound appreciation for the beauty and complexity of life. Your journey into genetics starts now, and it promises to be as thrilling as it is enlightening. Welcome aboard.
Download or read book Unzip Your Genes written by Dr. Jennifer Stagg and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unzip Your Genes will show you how take your own health into your own hands. You will no longer sit on the sidelines—instead you can play an active and empowered role in the state of your own health. In this book you will: • Understand how the environment and your genes interact. • Learn how to use your own genetic information to your advantage. • Create an actionable plan based on your genomics to radically transform your health and improve your vitality. • Discover how to improve your health span and lead a productive, happy and healthy life. Dr. Jennifer Stagg is an experienced physician and expert in Precision Medicine—an emerging approach for disease prevention that takes into account an individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle. In Unzip Your Genes Dr. Stagg provides insight on how you can take practical steps that can radically transform the state of your health and well-being.
Download or read book Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing enthusiasm in the scientific community about the prospect of mapping and sequencing the human genome, a monumental project that will have far-reaching consequences for medicine, biology, technology, and other fields. But how will such an effort be organized and funded? How will we develop the new technologies that are needed? What new legal, social, and ethical questions will be raised? Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome is a blueprint for this proposed project. The authors offer a highly readable explanation of the technical aspects of genetic mapping and sequencing, and they recommend specific interim and long-range research goals, organizational strategies, and funding levels. They also outline some of the legal and social questions that might arise and urge their early consideration by policymakers.
Download or read book A Textbook of Fungi Bacteria and Viruses written by H. C. Dube and published by Vikas Pub. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book G is for Genes written by Kathryn Asbury and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children—and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large. Draws on behavioral genetic research from around the world, including the UK-based Twins’ Early Development Study (TEDS), one of the largest twin studies in the world Offers a unique viewpoint by bringing together genetics and education, disciplines with a historically difficult relationship Shows that genetic influence is not the same as genetic determinism and that the environment matters at least as much as genes Designed to spark a public debate about what naturally-occurring individual differences mean for education and equality
Download or read book Biosocial Surveys written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-01-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewerâ€"respondent information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research? and asks these questions: What have the social sciences, especially demography, learned from those efforts and the greater interdisciplinary communication that has resulted from them? Which biological or genetic information has proven most useful to researchers? How can better models be developed to help integrate biological and social science information in ways that can broaden scientific understanding? This volume contains a collection of 17 papers by distinguished experts in demography, biology, economics, epidemiology, and survey methodology. It is an invaluable sourcebook for social and behavioral science researchers who are working with biosocial data.
Download or read book Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero written by Justin Pahara and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero is made to provide you with a first glimpse of the inner-workings of a cell. It further focuses on skill-building for genetic engineering and the Biology-as-a-Technology mindset (BAAT). This book is designed and written for hands-on learners who have little knowledge of biology or genetic engineering. This book focuses on the reader mastering the necessary skills of genetic engineering while learning about cells and how they function. The goal of this book is to take you from no prior biology and genetic engineering knowledge toward a basic understanding of how a cell functions, and how they are engineered, all while building the skills needed to do so.
Download or read book Genetics 101 written by Beth Skwarecki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series. Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children—from eye color, to height, to health, and even our longevity. Genetics 101 breaks down the science of how genes are inherited and passed from parents to offspring, what DNA is and how it works, how your DNA affects your health, and how you can use your personal genomics to find out more about who you are and where you come from. Whether you’re looking for a better scientific understanding of genetics, or looking into your own DNA, Genetics 101 is your go-to source to discover more about both yourself and your ancestry.
Download or read book The Society of Genes written by Itai Yanai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to “survival machines” whose sole purpose was to preserve “the selfish molecules known as genes.” How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing atop a wealth of new research, The Society of Genes now provides a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life. Pioneers in the nascent field of systems biology, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher present a compelling new framework to understand how the human genome evolved and why understanding the interactions among our genes shifts the basic paradigm of modern biology. Contrary to what Dawkins’s popular metaphor seems to imply, the genome is not made of individual genes that focus solely on their own survival. Instead, our genomes comprise a society of genes which, like human societies, is composed of members that form alliances and rivalries. In language accessible to lay readers, The Society of Genes uncovers genetic strategies of cooperation and competition at biological scales ranging from individual cells to entire species. It captures the way the genome works in cancer cells and Neanderthals, in sexual reproduction and the origin of life, always underscoring one critical point: that only by putting the interactions among genes at center stage can we appreciate the logic of life.
Download or read book She Has Her Mother s Laugh written by Carl Zimmer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year"—The Guardian One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018 One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 “Extraordinary”—New York Times Book Review "Magisterial"—The Atlantic "Engrossing"—Wired "Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year"—Minneapolis Star-Tribune Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities... But, Zimmer writes, “Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history. A particular fragment may sometimes be cause for worry, but most of our DNA influences who we are—our appearance, our height, our penchants—in inconceivably subtle ways.” Heredity isn’t just about genes that pass from parent to child. Heredity continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to trillions of cells that make up our bodies. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors—using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates—but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmer’s lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it. Weaving historical and current scientific research, his own experience with his two daughters, and the kind of original reporting expected of one of the world’s best science journalists, Zimmer ultimately unpacks urgent bioethical quandaries arising from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what we can pass on to future generations.
Download or read book Genes and DNA written by Charlotte K. Omoto and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses nontechnical language to introduce the basic concepts of genetic science and genetic technology, covering such topics as the mechanics of cloning, Mendelian traits in humans, gene regulation, and the use of bacteria as protein factories.
Download or read book Heritable Human Genome Editing written by The Royal Society and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritable human genome editing - making changes to the genetic material of eggs, sperm, or any cells that lead to their development, including the cells of early embryos, and establishing a pregnancy - raises not only scientific and medical considerations but also a host of ethical, moral, and societal issues. Human embryos whose genomes have been edited should not be used to create a pregnancy until it is established that precise genomic changes can be made reliably and without introducing undesired changes - criteria that have not yet been met, says Heritable Human Genome Editing. From an international commission of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.'s Royal Society, the report considers potential benefits, harms, and uncertainties associated with genome editing technologies and defines a translational pathway from rigorous preclinical research to initial clinical uses, should a country decide to permit such uses. The report specifies stringent preclinical and clinical requirements for establishing safety and efficacy, and for undertaking long-term monitoring of outcomes. Extensive national and international dialogue is needed before any country decides whether to permit clinical use of this technology, according to the report, which identifies essential elements of national and international scientific governance and oversight.
Download or read book Blueprint with a new afterword written by Robert Plomin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent lifelong sources of our psychological individuality—the blueprint that makes us who we are. Plomin reports that genetics explains more about the psychological differences among people than all other factors combined. Nature, not nurture, is what makes us who we are. Plomin explores the implications of these findings, drawing some provocative conclusions—among them that parenting styles don't really affect children's outcomes once genetics is taken into effect. This book offers readers a unique insider's view of the exciting synergies that came from combining genetics and psychology. The paperback edition has a new afterword by the author.
Download or read book Biology Made Easy written by Nedu and published by Nedu LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Launch Price This book includes over 300 illustrations to help you visualize what is necessary to understand biology at its core. Each chapter goes into depth on key topics to further your understanding of Cellular and Molecular Biology. Take a look at the table of contents: Chapter 1: What is Biology? Chapter 2: The Study of Evolution Chapter 3: What is Cell Biology? Chapter 4: Genetics and Our Genetic Blueprints Chapter 5: Getting Down with Atoms Chapter 6: How Chemical Bonds Combine Atoms Chapter 7: Water, Solutions, and Mixtures Chapter 8: Which Elements Are in Cells? Chapter 9: Macromolecules Are the "Big" Molecules in Living Things Chapter 10: Thermodynamics in Living Things Chapter 11: ATP as "Fuel" Chapter 12: Metabolism and Enzymes in the Cell Chapter 13: The Difference Between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Chapter 14: The Structure of a Eukaryotic Cell Chapter 15: The Plasma Membrane: The Gatekeeper of the Cell Chapter 16: Diffusion and Osmosis Chapter 17: Passive and Active Transport Chapter 18: Bulk Transport of Molecules Across a Membrane Chapter 19: Cell Signaling Chapter 20: Oxidation and Reduction Chapter 21: Steps of Cellular Respiration Chapter 22: Introduction to Photosynthesis Chapter 23: Light-Dependent Reactions Chapter 24: Calvin Cycle Chapter 25: Cytoskeleton Chapter 26: How Cells Move Chapter 27: Cellular Digestion Chapter 28: What is Genetic Material? Chapter 29: The Replication of DNA Chapter 30: What is Cell Reproduction? Chapter 31: The Cell Cycle and Mitosis Chapter 32: Meiosis Chapter 33: Cell Communities Chapter 34: Central Dogma Chapter 35: Genes Make Proteins Through This Process Chapter 36: DNA Repair and Recombination Chapter 37: Gene Regulation Chapter 38: Genetic Engineering of Plants Chapter 39: Using Genetic Engineering in Animals and Humans Chapter 40: What is Gene Therapy? Discover a better way to learn through illustrations. Get Your Copy Today!
Download or read book The Genetic Lottery written by Kathryn Paige Harden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.
