Genetics : analysis and principles

Genetics: Analysis and Principles emphasizes the scientific method to give students the insight needed to develop scientific reasoning skills.

Genetics: Analysis and Principles emphasizes the scientific method to give students the insight needed to develop scientific reasoning skills. Thirty-six text-integrated experiments in transmission and molecular genetics follow the five-step scientific method as they show students the "how" (experimental procedures) and "why" (the underlying scientific principles) behind important experiments that created the current body of genetics knowledge. Chapter by chapter, students see what it is that geneticists actually do how they conduct experiments, collect data, and use problem-solving skills to interpret that data. The text challenges students to think scientifically and rely on their own careful analysis of the data scientists have collected. As a result, students experience genetics as the exciting, dynamic science that it is.

I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Overview of Genetics. II. PATTERNS OF INHERITANCE. 2. Mendelian Inheritance. 3. Reproduction and Chromosome Transmission. 4. Extensions of Mendelian Inheritance. 5. Linkage and Genetic Mapping in Eukaryotes. 6. Genetic Transfer and Mapping in Bacteria and Bacteriophages. 7. Non-Mendelian Inheritance. 8. Variation in Chromosome Structure and Number. III. MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND REPLICATION OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL. 9. Molecular Structure of DNA and RNA. 10. Chromosome Organization and Molecular Structure. 11. DNA Replication. IV. MOLECULAR PROPERTIES OF GENES. 12. General Properties of Gene Structure and Function. 13. Gene Transcription and RNA Modification. 14. Translation of mRNA. 15. Gene Regulation in Bacteria and Bacteriophages. 16. Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes. 17. Gene Mutation and DNA Repair. 18. Recombination and Transposition at the Molecular Level. V. GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES. 19. Recombinant DNA Technology. 20. Genome Analysis. 21. Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology. 22. Computer Analysis of Genetic Sequences. VI. GENETIC ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUALS AND POPULATIONS. 23. Genetics of Cancer and Other Human Diseases. 24. Developmental Genetics. 25. Quantitative Genetics. 26. Population Genetics. 27. Evolutionary Genetics.