CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GENETICS THE STUDY OF GENES 12 THE NATURE OF ChromosomES AND GENES 32 Team GENETIC DisORDERS 44 THE PRACTICE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING 54 APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING 63 77 CoNCLUSION GoSSARY For MORE INFORMATION 78 BILIOGRAPHY 84 85 INDEX
OM aybe you know someone who is the spitting image of some one else in the family This is thanks to genes Genetics the study of genes involves far more than family resem blances though A century after pioneering experiments revealed the role of genes in heredity scientists learned that genetic engineering the manipulation of genes can be an important tool in medicine and agriculture This book provides an overview of the history of genetics It offers an expla nation of how genes work as well as what can happen when genetic defects occur It also explores some up and coming tech nologies that harness the power of genetic engineering People have known since ancient times that particular traits can be passed along from parent to offspring How this occurred was long a mystery though Scientists pro VI posed many theories through the years One prevailing theory of the early 1800s was My blending inheritance which held that an organism's heritable traits are a combination of those in the parents Charles Darwin used this theory to support his own theory of nat ural
A Closer Look at Genes and Genetic Engineering
The traits we inherit from our parents and pass on are encoded in our genes and DNA and reveal much about both our origins and our future.
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By: Michael Anderson
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Published by: Rosen Publishing provided by Britannica
