The century of the gene
By: Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780674003729
Subjects: Genética (história); Genetics; Regulação gênica; Histoire; Genes; Genetica; Génétique; Genetik; History
Description: "Evelyn Fox Keller provides an analysis of the achievements to genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology's progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the life of a powerful word --; title: Motors of stasis and change : the regulation of genetic stability --; title: The meaning of gene function : what does a gene do? --; title: The concept of a genetic program : how to make an organism --; title: The concept of a genetic analysis : what keeps development on track? --; title: Conclusion : what are genes for?