Loose Leaf for Genetics: From Genes to Genomes

by Leland Hartwell, Janice Fischer, Michael L. Goldberg, Leroy Hood

Overview

Genetics: From Genes to Genomes represents a new approach to an undergraduate course in genetics. It reflects the way the authors currently view the molecular basis of life. The eighth edition emphasizes both the core concepts of genetics and the cutting-edge discoveries, modern tools, and analytical methods that will keep the science of genetics moving forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781266115592
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Pages:	896
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Leland Hartwell is President and Director of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.
Dr. Hartwell’s primary research contributions were in identifying genes that control
cell division in yeast, including those necessary for the division process as well as
those necessary for the fi delity of genome reproduction. Subsequently, many of these
same genes have been found to control cell division in humans and oft en to be the
site of alteration in cancer cells.
Dr. Hartwell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received
the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation
International Award, the Genetics Society Medal, and the 2001 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine.

Dr. Janice Fischer is a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where she isan award-winning teacher of genetics and Director of the Biology Instructional Office.She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from HarvardUniversity, and did postdoctoral research at The University of California at Berkeleyand The Whitehead Institute at MIT. In her current research, Dr. Fischer usesDrosophila to examine the roles of ubiquitin and endocytosis in cell signaling duringdevelopment.


Dr. Michael Goldberg is a professor at Cornell University, where he teaches introductory
genetics and human genetics. He was an undergraduate at Yale University
and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. Dr. Goldberg performed
postdoctoral research at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (Switzerland)
and at Harvard University, and he received an NIH Fogarty Senior International
Fellowship for study at Imperial College (England) and fellowships from the
Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti for sabbatical work at the University of Rome (Italy).
His current research uses the tools of Drosophila genetics and the biochemical analysis
of frog egg cell extracts to investigate the mechanisms that ensure proper cell
cycle progression and chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis.

Dr. Hood received an MD from the Johns Hopkins Medical Schooland a PhD in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include immunology, development and the development of biological instrumentation (e.g. the protein sequenator and the automated fluorescent DNA sequencer). His research played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of anitbody diversity. Dr. Hood has taught molecular evolution, immunology, molecular biology and biochemistry. he is currently the Chairman (and founder) of the cross-disciplinary Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington. Dr. Hood has received a variety of awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research (1987), Dickson Price (1987), Cefas Award for Biochemistry (1989), and the Distinguished Service Award from the national Association of Teachers (1998). He is deeply involved in K-12 science educatiohn. His hobbies include running, mountain climbing, and reading.

Table of Contents

PART I Basic Principles: How Traits Are Transmitted
1 Mendel’s Principles of Heredity
2 Extensions to Mendel’s Laws
3 Chromosomes and Inheritance
4 Sex Chromosomes
5 Linkage, Recombination, and Gene Mapping


PART II What Genes Are and What They Do
6 DNA Structure, Replication, and Recombination
7 Mutation
8 Using Mutations to Study Genes
9 Gene Expression: The Flow of Information from DNA to RNA to Protein


PART III Analysis of Genetic Information
10 Digital Analysis of DNA
11 Genome Annotation
12 Analyzing Genomic Variation


PART IV How Genes Travel on Chromosomes
13 The Eukaryotic Chromosome
14 Chromosomal Rearrangements
15 Ploidy
16 Bacterial Genetics
17 Organellar Inheritance


PART V How Genes Are Regulated
18 Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes
19 Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes
20 Epigenetics


PART VI Using Genetics
21 Manipulating the Genomes of Eukaryotes
22 Genetic Analysis of Development
23 The Genetics of Cancer


PART VII Beyond the Individual Gene and Genome
24 Variation and Selection in Populations
25 Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits