Genetic engineering
Subtitle: a primer
By: Walter E. Hill
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers; Harwood Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Genetic engineering.; Genetic Engineering -- Popular Works.; Biotechnology -- Popular Works.; Biotechnology.; Genetic engineering.
Genres: Popular Works.
Description: "Genetic Engineering: A Primer introduces non-science major students and other general interest readers to the growing field of biotechnology. Hill examines the natural forces that change genetic information and the ways in which scientists have learned to engineer these genetic changes. Genetic Engineering provides the reader with the background necessary to understand the wealth of information on genetic engineering currently flooding the popular press."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Building blocks of living things; title: How living things are changed; title: Making genetic changes in plants and animals; title: How genetic engineering helps us.