Genetic engineering
Subtitle: manipulating the mechanisms of life
By: Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal.
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816066810
Subjects: Genetic engineering -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From breeding to a science of heredity; title: The origins of domestic plants and animals; title: The rise of agriculture and domestication; title: Early ideas of inheritance; title: The girl who gave birth to rabbits; title: Heredity and the theory of evolution; title: Gregor mendel discovers the laws of heredity; title: Classical genetics (1900-1950); title: Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes; title: The rediscovery of mendel's work; title: The debate over natural selection; title: Chromosomes and heredity; title: Sex and the X-Y chromosomes; title: Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory; title: Gene maps; title: Chromosome puzzles; title: Maize and "jumping genes"; title: "One gene makes one enzyme"; title: Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970); title: Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes; title: Genes are made of DNA; title: The double helix; title: RNA is the messenger; title: The architecture of genes; title: On-off switches for genes; title: The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms; title: The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990); title: Recombinant DNA; title: "Natural" genetic engineering; title: Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories; title: DNA sequencing; title: The polymerase chain reaction (PCR); title: Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food; title: Knock outs, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions; title: Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics; title: Transgenic animals and models of human disease; title: DNA fingerprinting; title: Genetic engineering in the age of genomes; title: The complexity of genomes; title: Introns and alternative splicing; title: Non-coding RNAs; title: Quality control: how cells detect defective genes; title: RNA knock outs; title: Molecular machines; title: Conditional mutagenesis; title: Other methods of controlling the output of genes; title: Molecular medicine and gene therapies; title: Personalized medicine in the genome age; title: DNA vaccines and t cell therapies; title: Ethics and genetic engineering; title: Reproductive cloning; title: Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells; title: Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics; title: GM foods and the rise of environmental movements; title: Owning genes, genomes, and living beings; title: A look farther ahead.