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A thrilling "user's guide" to the genomics era Welcome to the genome, the miraculous blueprint of your DNA, coiled tight as a spring in the nucleus of each cell of your body. If unwound, the DNA from just one cell, while only a molecule in width, would stretch six feet in length! The... read more
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- United States
- Celera
- Huntington
- Drosophila
- Dayton
- Europe
- Germany
- Earth
- California
- North Atlantic
- Tennessee
First Sentence edit
For much of the nineteenth and all of the twentieth century, scientists worked to unravel the biological basis of inheritance.
Table of Contents edit
From Mendel to molecules
The building blocks of gene sequencing
Sequencing the genome
Keeping the genome safe
99.9% -- The tree of life
The world to come: medicine
The world to come: agriculture
Caution: welcoming the genome.
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- Rob Desalle (Author)
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Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Country: Hoboken, NJ, USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 215
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Country: Hoboken, NJ, USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 215
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- Dewey: 611.01816
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