Chromosomes Today
Contributors: N. Henriquez-Gil (Editor); J.S. Parker (Editor); M. Puertas (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780412752407
Subjects: Cellular biology; Genetics (non-medical); Chromosomes; Science; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Genetics; Science / Genetics; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
First sentence: The birth of Genetics, a new science able to explain biological hereditary phenomena, should have taken place when it was able to answer the following two fundamental questions: firstly, what are the laws by which biological characters are transmitted from parents to offspring? and secondly, what is the physical basis by which such characteristics are conserved and transmitted? or, in other words, what is the molecular basis of inheritance?