Main description:

Derived from his popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Ben Pierce's streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.
With the new edition, Ben Pierce again focuses on the most pervasive problems for students taking genetics-understanding how genetics concepts connect to each other and developing solid problem solving skills. And with this edition, Genetics Essentials is available as a fully integrated text/media resource with SaplingPlus, an online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Pierce's powerful multimedia resources, and Sapling's robust genetics problem library.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Genetics.- 2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction.- 3. Basic Principles of Heredity.- 4. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles.- 5. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping.- 6. Chromosome Variation.- 7. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems.- 8. DNA: The Chemical Nature of the Gene.- 9. DNA Replication and Recombination.- 10. From DNA to Proteins: Transcription and RNA Processing.- 11. From DNA to Proteins: Translation.- 12. Control of Gene Expression.- 13. Gene Mutations, Transposable Elements, and DNA Repair.- 14. Molecular Genetic Analysis and Biotechnology.- 15. Genomics and Proteomics.- 16. Cancer Genetics.- 17. Quantitative Genetics.- 18. Population and Evolutionary Genetics.