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A Dictionary of Genetics
Seventh Edition
Robert C. King, William D. Stansfield, and Pamela K. Mulligan
608 pages
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314 black and white illustrations
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253x176mm
978-0-19-530762-7
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Hardback
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24 August 2006
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- Unsurpassed in any other genetics dictionary in breadth of terms defined
- Chronology of over 400 years of historical events in genetics, cytology, and evolutionary science
The field of genetics continues to advance at an ever-accelerating pace, marked by numerous extraordinary achievements in recent years:
The human genome project was completed
Breakthroughs in public health have been achieved in relation to newly available genome sequences for parasitic vectors.
DNA microarrays have taken the study of gene expression and genetic variation to a global, genome-wide scale.
The proteomes of key model organisms have been comparatively analyzed in amazing detail.
Such momentous advances in genetics have been
accompanied by a deluge of new experimental techniques, computational technologies, databases, Internet sites, periodicals, books, and of course, concepts and terms. As new terminology emerges, many old terms recede from use or require revision. New material for this new edition of both the dictionary and its appendices has accumulated more rapidly than in the past. In the proposed new edition the term "genetics" itself is re-defined, reflecting recent technical advances, and with them, the convergence of classical and molecular genetics. Genetics today is no longer simply the study of heredity in the old sense (the study of the inheritance of biological traits from one generation to the next) but also the study of the basic units of heredity, or genes. Geneticists of the post-genomics era
identify genetic elements using forward or reverse genetics and decipher the molecular nature of genes, how they function, and how genetic variation - whether introduced in the lab or present in natural populations - affects the phenotype of the cell or organism. With widespread applications, today's genetics thus also unify the biological sciences, medical sciences, and evolutionary studies.
As compared with the current sixth edition, the seventh edition will have many more new and revised entries. The sixth edition had 6,580 definitions; the seventh has 511 new and 980 revised definitions - a 23% change in content.Readership: Students and professionals working in biological sciences,
researchers, geneticists
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Robert C. King, Professor of Biochemistry, Northwestern University, USA, William D. Stansfield, Professor, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, USA, and Pamela K. Mulligan, Geneticist, USA
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