Genetic engineering : (Record no. 759365)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780816066810
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency rda
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 660.65 HODG
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hodge, Russ,
Dates associated with a name 1961-
9 (RLIN) 183428
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Genetic engineering :
Remainder of title manipulating the mechanisms of life /
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 pages :
Other physical details illustration (some col.), col. map, ports. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Form subdivision Popular works.
9 (RLIN) 183429
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Molecular machinery.
9 (RLIN) 183430
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-- Boniswa Ngcongolo
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-- Boniswa Ngcongolo
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     600: Technology & Applied Science ERMELO REGIONAL LIBRARY Khuluwazi Public Library Non Fiction 25.10.2023   660.65 HODG 33228031000221 25.10.2023 25.10.2023 Book