Kat Arney

Herding Hemingway's Cats

Understanding how our genes work

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Produktbeschreibung

How DNA is packed, unpacked, and read--a companion reader to the book of life itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma / Bloomsbury Specialist
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 207g
• ISBN-13: 9781472910073
• ISBN-10: 1472910079
• Artikelnr.: 45640162

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: It's All About that Base
1. It's Not What You've Got, It's What You Do With It That Counts
2. Taking Out the Garbage
3. A Bit of Dogma
4. Throwing the Switch
5. The Secret's in the Blend
6. Cats with Thumbs
7. Fish with Hips
8. Mice and Men and Mole Rats, Oh My!
9. Party Town
10. Pimp My Genome
11. Cut and Paste
12. Nature's Red Pen
13. Ever Increasing Circles
14. Silence of the Genes
15. Night of the Living Dead
16. On the Hop
17. Opening a Can of Wobbly Worms
18. Everyone's a Little Bit Mutant
19. Opening the Black Box
20. Blame the Parents
21. Meet the Mickey Mouse Mice
22. In Search of the 21st-Century Gene
Glossary
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References
Index

Rezensionen

A witty, clued-up report from the front lines of genetics ... Kat Arney unravels the intricacies of the discipline with a romp through 'thumbed' cats, hipped fish and frank interviews with scientists. Nature