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Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies
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Hardcover
from Hill & Wang Pub (July 1, 2001); titled "The Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies"
9780374175238 | details & prices | 375 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $27.00
About: Explains how the insights of Gregor Mendel are the key to understanding genetics today, and discusses the ethical implications of current genetic technologies, from cloning to the Human Genome Project.
About: Explains how the insights of Gregor Mendel are the key to understanding genetics today, and discusses the ethical implications of current genetic technologies, from cloning to the Human Genome Project.
Paperback
from Hill & Wang Pub (June 1, 2002)
9780809057436 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $15.00
About: How genetics, and the technologies that arise from it, will affect the way we live in the twenty-first centuryIn the mid-nineteenth century, a Moravian friar made a discovery that was to shape not only the future of science but also that of the human race.
About: How genetics, and the technologies that arise from it, will affect the way we live in the twenty-first centuryIn the mid-nineteenth century, a Moravian friar made a discovery that was to shape not only the future of science but also that of the human race.