UNDERSTANDING DNA AND GENE CLONING : A Guide for the Curious

Drlica, Karl; (With an Introduction By Arthur Kornberg)

ISBN 10: 0471879428 / ISBN 13: 9780471879428

Published by Wiley Publishing, New York, NY, 1984

About this Item

Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF; faint creasing to upper front corner w/corresponding bend to first 3 pages from poor shelving. Lucid, concise introduction to gene cloning --- a technology the treatise shows to be both elegant and simple. An intellectual exercise reducing separate concepts of anatomy, physiology, immunology, etc to molecular terms, and then reassembling units back to a meaningful whole.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: UNDERSTANDING DNA AND GENE CLONING : A Guide for the Curious
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471879428
• ISBN 13: 9780471879428
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, 2nd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Technology

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Synopsis

Do you realize how much impact DNA technology has on your life today? Registering your child's DNA with the police, bold new medical cures, the perfect tomato, gene cloning and DNA manipulation are no longer remote events that will have impact in your life they are today's headlines! In this highly acclaimed guide, Karl Drlica fully explains the basis of the ongoing genetic revolution. He guides you through the science and technology you need to understand the issues and make informed decisions. This text can be used either as a main text in a course where instructors want to use a thematic, case study approach to biology, a non majors genes or genomics course, or as a supplement for "Introductory Biology".