The century of the gene / Evelyn Fox Keller.
The century of the gene / Evelyn Fox Keller.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2000.
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N576.5/5
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English
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186 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Life of a Powerful Word -- 1. Motors of Stasis and Change: The Regulation of Genetic Stability -- 2. The Meaning of Gene Function: What Does a Gene Do? -- 3. The Concept of a Genetic Program: How to Make an Organism -- 4. Limits of Genetic Analysis: What Keeps Development on Track?...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2000.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2000.
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"Evelyn Fox Keller provides an analysis of the achievements to genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology's progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of...
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The century of the gene / Evelyn Fox Keller.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index.
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c2000.
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N576.5/5
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74Vvo7E60OEb
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ISBN
0674003721 :
9780674003729 (hc : alk. paper)
0674003721 (hc : alk. paper)
9780674003729 :
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576.5
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991013211089702626
