The 10th Edition has been extensively updated to provide comprehensive coverage of important, emerging topics such as CRISPR-Cas, epigenetics, and genetic testing. Additionally, a new Special Topic chapter covers Advances in Neurogenetics with a focus on Huntington Disease, and new essays on Genetics, Ethics, and Society emphasize ethical considerations that genetics is bringing into everyday life.
The accompanying Mastering Genetics online platform includes new tutorials on topics such as CRISPR-Cas and epigenetics, and new Dynamic Study Modules, which support student learning of key concepts and prepare them for class. Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering Genetics: Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline.
Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class - motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.
The Ninth Edition maintains the text's brief, less-detailed coverage of core concepts and has been extensively updated with relevant, cutting-edge coverage of emerging topics in genetics. The accompanying MasteringGenetics online homework and assessment system has been updated with over practice problems and an expanded selection of assignable end-of-chapter problems. Also Available with MasteringGenetics This title is also available with MasteringGenetics -- an online homework and assessment program that guides students through complex topics in genetics and strengthens problem-solving skills using in-depth tutorials that coach students to the correct answers with hints and feedback specific to their misconceptions and errors.
MasteringGenetics offers additional opportunities for students to master key concepts and practice problem solving, using interactive tutorials with hints and feedback. Instructors may also assign pre-lecture quizzes, end-of-chapter problems, practice problems, and test bank questions that are automatically scored and entered into the Mastering gradebook. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringGenet. For all introductory genetics courses.
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Mastering Genetics allows students to develop problem-solving skills, learn from tutorials on key genetics concepts, and gain a better understanding of emerging topics.
Furthermore, new observations and discoveries relevant to an overall understanding of the subject result from investigations using very diverse techniques and methodologies and originating in a variety of different disciplines. Thus, investigations in such various fields as enzymology, immunology, protein chemistry, cytology, pediatrics, neurology, internal medicine, anthropology, and mathematical and statistical genetics, to name but a few, have each contributed results and ideas of general significance to the study of human genetics.
Not surprisingly it is often difficult for workers in one branch of the subject to assess and assimilate findings made in another. This can be a serious limiting factor on the rate of progress. Thus, there appears to be a real need for critical review articles which summarize the positions reached in different areas, and it is hoped that "Advances in Human Genetics" will help to meet this requirement.
Each of the contributors has been asked to write an account of the position that has been reached in the investigations of a specific topic in one of the branches of human genetics.
It is a storehouse of learning and practical knowledge for anyone interested in environmental policy, biosafety issues, biotechnology processes and associated regulatory constraints. Marcelin Tonye Mahop, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law For bioethicists, legal scholars and regulators struggling with what controls to place on biotechnology, this is required reading.
John Avellanet, Journal of Commercial Biotechnology Biotechnology has prompted a revolution in science and society in the truest sense of the word. For what superficially appears to be a revolution in biotechnology, in effect touches upon the fundamentals of life and the way in which humans relate to it.
This book will make a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the effective regulation of biotechnology. The contributing authors assess how regulatory regimes can accommodate the many different and often conflicting issues to which biotechnology is giving rise to including a very tainted public image. The book s ultimate aim is to explore ways of designing a regulatory regime that takes heed of these different demands whilst, at the same time, answering to the imperatives of effectiveness and efficiency.
Both of these features increase the opportunities for active and cooperative learning. Goals In the 12th edition of Concepts of Genetics, as in all past editions, we have five major overarching goals. These goals collectively serve as the cornerstone of Concepts of Genetics. This pedagogic foundation allows the book to be used in courses with many different approaches and lecture formats.
Writing a textbook that achieves these goals and having the opportunity to continually improve on each new edition has been a labor of love for all of us. The creation of each of the twelve editions is a reflection not only of our passion for teaching genetics, but also of the constructive feedback and encouragement provided by adopters, reviewers, and our students over the past four decades. New to This Edition New to this edition are four chapters. CRISPR, a genome-editing tool, is a straightforward technique that allows specific, highly accurate modification of DNA sequences within genes and is thus a powerful tool in the world of genetic research and gene therapy.
In addition to this chapter, we call your attention to the introduction to Chapter 1 for an introduction to CRISPR and to also note that we have chosen this gene-editing system as the subject matter illustrated on the cover. Special Topics Chapter 6 illustrates the many of advances that have been made in the study of human neurogenetics.
Huntington disease, a monogenic human disorder, has been subjected to analysis for over 40 years using every major approach and technique developed to study molecular genetics, and as such, exemplifies the growing body of information that has accrued regarding its causes, symptoms, and future treatment. Additional new chapters arise from a major reorganization and expansion of our coverage of regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes, where we have split our previous coverage into three parts: transcriptional regulation Chapter 17 , posttranscriptional regulation Chapter 18 , and epigenetic regulation Chapter Chapter 18 includes much of the content previously contained in the Special Topics chapter Emerging Roles of RNA in the previous edition.
Chapter 19, focused on epigenetics, is an expansion of the content previously contained in the Epigenetics Special. Topics chapter from the previous edition. Collectively, the addition of these four new chapters provides students and instructors with a much clearer, upto-date presentation to these important aspects of genetics.
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