The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage - Softcover

Bodmer, Walter; McKie, Robin

 
9780195114874: The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
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ISBN 10: 0195114876 ISBN 13: 9780195114874
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 1997

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Short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc General Prize for the Best Popular Science Book

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Sir Walter Bodmer is one of the world's most distinguished human geneticists. As a former president of the Human Genome Organization, he has gained a unique perspective on how this great undertaking is progressing. Robin McKie, science editor of the Observer since 1982, has followed the story of modern molecular biology's flowering and has written many articles and books on the subject.

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The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage.The 'Book of Man, ' is the term used by Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie for the DNA that is the instruction set according to which all humans are made. At conception, a single cell - the fertilized egg - is produced, and it is this one cell that has the potential to form a new and unique individual under the guidance of the DNA within its nucleus.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195114876
ISBN 13 
9780195114874
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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