Genetic structure and function / P.F. Smith Keary.

  • Smith-Keary, P. F.
Date:
1975
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    his book is designed to provide a ful p-to-date introduction to molecular enetics for university and polytechni tudents taking a first course on the subject. he subject matter of the book is the enetic material — its structure, functi organisation, replication, transmissior recombination and mutation. In addi there are other topics, such as the latipnships between genes and proti the genetic code, transcription and translation, and also the more formal aspects of genetics, all of which have sturai place in this book, and they h accordingly been treated in some deti Genetic analysis is described in phage bacteria and fungi, and there is a chaf on mutation which includes sections ( how Pinutants are isolated, how they a induced and on the molecular basis о mutation. Among the many other tof .V» described are the molecular basis of recorribination, the repair of dna, thi operoVi of E. coli, gene suppression, - mutation and cancer, position effects Drosóphija, controlling elements in rr and differential gene activity in eucar -'s In keeping with the great advances mi by molecular biology in recent years, book as far as possible discusses the genetic material from the molecular viewpoint. Another feature is the attention given to describing actual experimental techniques and results, i that tKe reader may be able, not only evaluate the results for himself, but al to gain a deeper understanding of the logical foundations on which the subj rests.