Molecular Biology

The book Molecular Biology has been kept simple as far as possible, so that the students may learn without having to first assimilate complex terminology. The book contains essential facts and overloading it with estoric details, only of interest to a minute proportion of the scientific community, has been avoided. The book contains more than 125 line diagrams, which are easy to understand, memorize and reproduce at a later date. This is invariably useful while explaining a difficult concept to others as well as during examinations. Complex three-dimensional colour figures have been avoided. Although the book was originally conceived for students of B.Sc. and M.Sc., yet the individual with a background in the sciences as well as students at other levels may benefit from its simplistic approach. Those who wish to go deeper into the subject, a few articles or books are listed at the end of each chapter as further reading . Some experiments marked with an asterisk(* ) in the book are quite suitable for doing in a laboratory, under the guidance of a teacher. This book is intended to give the reader a sound foundation of molecular biology and a flavour of the subject as it stands today.

Ram Nares singh has retired as a Professor from the Molecular Biology Unit, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He has taught Molecular Biology to the M.Sc. students of Bombay University for 17 years and students of M.S. and Ph.D. programs at Bhakti Vedanta Institute, Hare Krishna Temple, Juhu, Mumbai for a couple of years. He has worked in the laboratories of the University of Lucknow; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay; Medical Research Council Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K.; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany; and Yale University, New Haven, USA. Dr. Singh has co-authored many original research papers published in the international and national journals in the fields of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Neurobiology. He has edited two books Neurobiology of Sensory Systems, and Nervous Systems: Principles of Design and Function. Dr. Singh had organized three international conferences on Neurobiology in 1988, 1991 and 1994; the first two at Goa and the third at Cochin. He has been recipient of fellowships from UNESCO, EMBO and Nuffield Foundation.