genetics

Author: Martin Brooks
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book starts from Mendel and the garden peas in horticulture and extends to the global human genome project. What exactly is a gene? What exactly does a gene do? Discover everything you need to know. In fact, human genes are like the bricks of a building, the foundation of being human. This book takes you from early experiments to the discovery of Watson and Crick, and then to the many efforts made by humans to confirm the function of each gene. Explore and see why your mother has blue eyes while your own are brown; how scientists cloned a whole sheep; and why one day we might be able to eat square tomatoes and straight bananas!