Genetic engineering :manipulating the mechanisms of life(E-BOOK) (Record no. 193152)
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| control field | Nust |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20170207154052.0 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2008033700 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0816066817 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780816066810 |
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| Transcribing agency | Nust |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 660.65 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hodge, Russ, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Genetic engineering :manipulating the mechanisms of life(E-BOOK) |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Facts On File, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xx, 219 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | From breeding to a science of heredity -- The origins of domestic plants and animals -- The rise of agriculture and domestication -- Early ideas of inheritance -- The girl who gave birth to rabbits -- Heredity and the theory of evolution -- Gregor mendel discovers the laws of heredity -- Classical genetics (1900-1950) -- Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes -- The rediscovery of mendel's work -- The debate over natural selection -- Chromosomes and heredity -- Sex and the X-Y chromosomes -- Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory -- Gene maps -- Chromosome puzzles -- Maize and "jumping genes" -- "One gene makes one enzyme" -- Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970) -- Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes -- Genes are made of DNA -- The double helix -- RNA is the messenger -- The architecture of genes -- On-off switches for genes -- The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms -- The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990) -- Recombinant DNA -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knock outs, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions -- Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics -- Transgenic animals and models of human disease -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genetic engineering in the age of genomes -- The complexity of genomes -- Introns and alternative splicing -- Non-coding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knock outs -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- DNA vaccines and t cell therapies -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics -- GM foods and the rise of environmental movements -- Owning genes, genomes, and living beings -- A look farther ahead. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Genetic engineering |
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| Geographic name | E-BOOK |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Table of contents only |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033700.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033700.html</a> |
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| Military College of Signals (MCS) | Military College of Signals (MCS) | 12/12/2016 | 660.65 HOD | MCSEB-2925 | 12/08/2016 | 12/12/2016 | Book |