[PDF] A Century Of Dna eBook

Author : Franklin H. Portugal
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1980-05-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780262660464

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The story of DNA from the time of its discovery in 1869 up to the solution of the genetic code in the 1960s.

Author : Evelyn Fox KELLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674039432

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In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.

Author : Robert Olby
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486166597

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Written by a noted historian of science, this in-depth account traces how Watson and Crick achieved one of science's most dramatic feats: their 1953 discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.

Author : Anne Sayre
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393320442

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A biography of one of the four scientists responsible for the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, the key to heredity in all living things.

Author : Robert Plomin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262357763

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A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent lifelong sources of our psychological individuality—the blueprint that makes us who we are. Plomin reports that genetics explains more about the psychological differences among people than all other factors combined. Nature, not nurture, is what makes us who we are. Plomin explores the implications of these findings, drawing some provocative conclusions—among them that parenting styles don't really affect children's outcomes once genetics is taken into effect. This book offers readers a unique insider's view of the exciting synergies that came from combining genetics and psychology. The paperback edition has a new afterword by the author.

Author : J. Clayton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137117818

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Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA fifty years ago marked one of the great turning points in the history of science. Biology, immunology, medicine and genetics have all been radically transformed in the succeeding half-century, and the double helix has become an icon of our times. This fascinating exploration of a scientific phenomenon provides a lucid and engaging account of the background and context for the discovery, its significance and afterlife, while a series of essays by leading scientists, historians and commentators offers uniquely individual perspectives on DNA and its impact on modern science and society.

Author : Jun Tsuji
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781795578905

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For most of human history, understanding the basis of cancer posed a grave scientific challenge. For lack of knowledge of the DNA double helix, scientists were unable to understand the genetic roots of cancer, and subsequently they were unable to develop effective methods of treatment. In the early 1950s, scientists were on the verge of discovering the DNA double helix and unveiling cancer as a genetic disease. Stumped by the uncertainty regarding the shape of the DNA bases, the structural and functional "soul" of DNA, the male-dominated scientific establishment - from James Watson and Francis Crick to Linus Pauling - proposed models of DNA that were, in effect, inside out. In contrast, a woman, Sister Miriam Michael Stimson, OP, an Adrian Dominican sister and chemist, dared to imagine a solution to the DNA base problem. Using potassium bromide (KBr) to prepare the DNA bases for analysis by infrared spectroscopy, Sister Miriam Michael successfully developed a chemical method that affirmed the structure of the DNA bases and of the double helix itself. The Soul of DNA recounts, for the first time, the role of Sister Miriam Michael Stimson, OP, in the discovery of the DNA double helix