Main description:

This is the SaplingPlus 12 month Access Card only, this does not include the textbook.

The new edition continues the Pierce tradition of pedagogical excellence and scientific currency. In addition, it features a new digital component, SaplingPlus, combining Sapling's acclaimed online homework with an extensive suite of interactive learning resources and course management features. This instructional online homework help system will save lecturers' time and improve student success rates. Every problem posed to a student will receive answer-specific feedback.
Students will practice basic coverage questions to affirm their background knowledge, and this will then move onto the more complex and specific problem solving style questions. Allowing your students to develop their understanding of genetics.

Each lecturer is paired with a Client Services Specialist, a peer with a PhD or Master's degree, ready to help with everything from quizzes and assignments to syllabus planning and tech support.

Learn more about the benefits of SaplingPlus for Genetics by clicking on the links in the sidebar.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Genetics.- Chapter 2: Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction.- Chapter 3: Basic Principles of Heredity.- Chapter 4: Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Characteristics.- Chapter 5: Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles.- Chapter 6: Pedigree Analysis, Applications, and Genetic Testing.- Chapter 7: Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping.- Chapter 8: Chromosome Variation.- Chapter 9: Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems.- Chapter 10: DNA: The Chemical Nature of the Gene.- Chapter 11: Chromosome Structure and Organelle DNA.- Chapter 12: DNA Replication and Recombination.- Chapter 13: Transcription.- Chapter 14: RNA Molecules and RNA Processing.- Chapter 15: The Genetic Code and Translation.- Chapter 16: Control of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes.- Chapter 17: Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes.- Chapter 18: Gene Mutations and DNA Repair.- Chapter 19: Molecular Genetic Analysis and Biotechnology.- Chapter 20: Genomics and Proteomics.- Chapter 21: Epigenetics.- Chapter 22: Developmental Genetics and Immunogenetics.- Chapter 23: Cancer Genetics.- Chapter 24: Quantitative Genetics.- Chapter 25: Population Genetics.- Chapter 26: Evolutionary Genetics.