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Sto caricando le informazioni... Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Geneticsdi Simon Mawer
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Less a biography of Mendel than a history of genetics. The author spends a short time on Mendel's childhood (not a lot is actually known, anyway) and then goes immediately into the research that put his name into science books forever. A good description of the work that was done, followed by a discussion of the rediscovery in the early twentieth century and the role of Mendelian Genetics from that time to the present. The author also ties it in with Darwin and Natural Selection. Well written, interesting, and with a great many illustrations that illuminate the text. I appreciated the inclusion of photos of the people he was discussing; it helps to make them more real, and not just quasi-real characters in a book. Recommended for those who want to know just what it is that Mendel did and why it is so important. ( ) This is a simple history of our understanding of inheritance and genes, starting with Gregor Mendel and coming up chronologicaly to the present. The first half deals primarily with Mendel and his life. This is followed by the history of chromosomes, genes, DNA, sequencing, and genetic engineering. This book is well written in (primarily) general and easy to understand terms. There are many illustrations, many historical or explanatory. It is half biography and half a historical overview of the science and technology. I would recommend this to anyone curious about the subject. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In the mid-nineteenth century, Gregor Mendel, a friar who taught natural science in the provincial Austro-Hungarian capital of Brunn (today Brno, Czech Republic), began to experiment with breeding garden peas. Meticulously recording his observations of their inherited traits over a number of generations, he developed the basis of the modern science of genetics. Mendel's discoveries were so far in advance of their day that it wasn't until 50 years had passed that their importance was recognised by the scientific community. Today he is recognised as one of the great scientists of history. The story of genetics, of course, did not stop with Mendel. In a fascinating account of scientific history, author Simon Mawer continues the narrative through the work of the life-scientists who built their own research on Mendel's discoveries. These include the discovery of the DNA molecule by scientists led by James Watson and Francis Crick in the early 1950s, the Human Genome Project completed in 2003, and the remarkable discoveries of geneticists that continue today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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