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| Preface | |
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| Mendelism and Classical Genetics | |
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| Heredity Happens, but How? | |
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| The Scientific Monk | |
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| Mendel's Experiments | |
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| Emerging Patterns | |
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| Extensions to Mendel's Laws | |
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| The Cell-The Basic Unit of Life | |
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| Cell Theory | |
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| Animalcules and Nuclei | |
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| Schleiden and Schwann | |
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| Parts of the Cell | |
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| Counting Chromosomes | |
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| The Cell Cycle | |
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| Connecting Mendel with Chromosomes | |
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| Quiz | |
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| DNA-The Chemical Basis of Heredity | |
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| The Race to Decipher DNA | |
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| The Double Helix | |
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| Replication of DNA | |
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| DNA Mutation and Repair | |
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| Chromosomes-Organized DNA | |
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| The Fly Room | |
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| The Structure of the Chromosome | |
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| Linkage, Crossing Over, and Chromosome Mapping | |
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| Traits-How Genes Are Expressed | |
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| Transcription | |
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| Translation | |
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| How Genes Are Regulated | |
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| From the Micro to the Macro | |
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| Genomes-Reading the Genetic Code | |
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| Sequencing Other Species | |
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| Genome Mapping | |
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| Genome Variation | |
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| Mutations-Misreading the Code | |
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| Types of Mutations | |
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| Causes of Mutations | |
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| Cancer-Genetics Gone Awry | |
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| What Is Cancer? | |
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| How Oncogenes Cause Cancer | |
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| Another Mutation That Causes Cancer | |
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| Carcinogens | |
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| Bacteria-A Different Way of Doing Things | |
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| Characteristics of Bacteria | |
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| DNA Replication and Cell Division | |
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| Bacterial Transcription and Translation | |
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| Genetic Recombination of Bacteria | |
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| Regulation of Gene Activity in Bacteria | |
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| Organelles-Genetics Outside the Nucleus | |
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| Mitochondria | |
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| Chloroplasts | |
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| Organelle Inheritance | |
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| The Past Through Mitochondria | |
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| Viruses-Hijacking Heredity | |
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| What Is a Virus? | |
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| Bacteriophages | |
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| Eukaryotic Viruses | |
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| Genetic Engineering-Sculpting the Code | |
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| Restriction Enzymes | |
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| The First Experiments | |
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| Amplifying DNA | |
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| Modifying Proteins | |
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| Genetic Engineering of Animals | |
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| Genetic Engineering of Plants | |
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| Gene Therapy | |
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| Cloning | |
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| Concerns and Controversy | |
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| Evolution-Change Driven By Genetics | |
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| What Is Evolution? | |
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| Population Genetics | |
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| The Origin of Species | |
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| Phylogenetic Systematics | |
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| The Genetics of Human Evolution | |
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| Humans-How Genetics Affects Us | |
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| The Genetics of Sex | |
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| Genetic Diseases | |
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| RFLPs | |
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| Genetic Screening | |
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| Final Exam | |
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| Answers to Quiz and Final Exam Questions | |
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| Suggested Additional References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Web Sites | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |