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Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
68 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Description
"Why do children look like their parents? Why are some people blond and others brunette, and where do we get our eye colour from? This book explains genetic theory, what genes are, why DNA plays an important role and what all these insights have to do with a curious monk. An exciting journey through the history of science, present-day genetic research and engineering and right through to the question of identity – because who would have thought...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
We usually think of fossils as being composed of rock, the original contents of the organisms lost to time. However, this is changing. Due to new technologies scientists are able to access the ancient biomolecules--the pigments, proteins, chemicals, and DNA--that once performed critical roles in organisms and have been preserved accross millions of years. This book introduces readers to the new science of ancient biomolecules and what it tells about...
Author
Publisher
Perennial/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Description
In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.
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