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Tables of Contents for The New York Times Book of Genetics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
4
Genetics as History
5
32
To People the World, Start with Five Hundred
9
5
Gene of Mideast Ancestor May Link Four Disparate Peoples
14
3
Finding Genetic Traces of Jewish Priesthood
17
4
Research Team Takes Big Stride in the Mapping of Human Genes
21
4
Male Chromosome Is Not a Genetic Wasteland, After All
25
4
Tree of Life Turns Out to Have Surprisingly Complex Roots
29
8
Discovering Human Genes
37
34
The Struggle to Decipher Human Genes
40
7
Dainty Worm Tells Secrets of the Human Genetic Code
47
7
A Bold Shortcut to Human Genes
54
6
Researchers Locate Gene That Triggers Huntington's Illness
60
4
Researchers Link Obesity in Humans to Flaw in a Gene
64
4
Discovery of Gene Offers Clues on Deafness
68
3
The New Science of Genomics
71
22
Bacterium's Full Gene Makeup Is Decoded
74
7
Thinking Small Paying Off Big in Gene Quest
81
5
Scientists Map a Bacterium's Genetic Code
86
4
DNA of Organism in Lyme Disease Is Decoded
90
3
The Architecture of DNA
93
40
How Cells Unwind Tangled Skein of Life
96
5
A First Step in Putting Genes into Action: Bend the DNA
101
6
Keys Emerge to Mystery of Junk DNA
107
5
Tracing a Genetic Disease to Bits of Traveling DNA
112
5
Scientist Reports First Cloning Ever of Adult Mammal
117
6
With No Other Dollys, Cloning Report Draws Critics
123
4
In Big Advance, Cloning Creates Dozens of Mice
127
6
Building an Organism
133
38
Heads or Tails? How Embryos Get It Right
137
6
Making an Embryo: Biologists Find Keys to Body Plan
143
7
Family of Errant Genes Is Found to Be Related to Variety of Skeletal Ills
150
5
With New Fly, Science Outdoes Hollywood
155
4
More Than One Way, or Even Two, for a Rat to Smell a Rat
159
4
Mating Game of Fruit Fly Is Traced to a Single Gene
163
4
Modern ``Wolfmen'' May Have Inherited Ancient Gene
167
4
Genes and Disease
171
54
Breast Cancer Gene in One Percent of U.S. Jews
174
5
Gene Mutation Tied to Colon Cancers in Ashkenazi Jews
179
5
Doctors Isolate a Common Cancer Related Gene
184
4
Big Picture of Cancer Process Is Being Seen for the First Time
188
5
Can the Common Cold Cure Cancer?
193
8
In the Rush toward Gene Therapy, Some See a High Risk of Failure
201
6
Artificial Human Chromosome Is New Tool for Gene Therapy
207
4
Gene Hunters Pursue Elusive and Complex Traits of Mind
211
6
Two Gene Discoveries Help Explain the Misfires of Epilepsy in the Brain
217
3
Studies Outline Clever Tricks of Viruses
220
5
Genes and Life Span
225
2
Can Life Span Be Extended? Biologists Offer Some Hope
227
7
A Clue to Longevity Found at Chromosome Tip
234
6
Cells' Lives Stretched in Lab
240
8
The Latest from the Field
Genetic Code of Human Life Is Cracked by Scientists
248
6
Genome's Riddle: Few Genes, Much Complexity
254
5
The Story of Us: Other Secrets of the Genome
259
3
Y Chromosome Bears Witness to Story of the Jewish Diaspora
262
Appendix: A Guide to the Language of Biology