BASIC GENETICS (JONES AND BARTLETT SERIES IN BIOLOGY) By Hartl & Freifelder

Description: This book doesn’t look like it was used. This textbook, titled "Basic Genetics" and authored by Daniel L. Hartl and Snyder, is a part of "The Jones and Bartlett Series in Biology". It was published in 1988 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC and weighs 1.01 pounds. The book has 496 pages and is in hardcover format. It is written in English and has an ISBN-10 of 0867200901. This book is ideal for individuals interested in the subject area of science, specifically in life sciences, genetics, and genomics. It provides comprehensive information on the topic and is an excellent resource for students and professionals alike. The book's aspects include its author, series, publisher, format, language, and weight. It falls under the categories of "Textbooks, Education & Reference" and "Textbooks". Brevity - In under 500 pages of actual text, the authors have managed to limit length by concentrating on the essentials of genetics and eliminating many advanced and specialized topics not generally considered to be of prime interest to beginning students. Basic Genetics is intended to meet the needs of the shorter, more applied course in introductory genetics. The brevity of the text more naturally fits the pace of what can be reasonably covered in a one-quarter or one-semester course. The text concentrates on the essentials of genetics, omitting the encumbering detail of many advanced and specialized topics. The aim of this text is to focus on the basics of genetics and present those fundamentals as clearly and concisely as possible. Throughout Basic Genetics we have integrated classical and molecular principles. The first four chapters serve as a general introduction to genetics. Chapter 1 includes classical Mendelian genetics, and Chapter 2 emphasizes the implications of the occurrence of genes in chromosomes. Chapter 3 focuses on the principles of gene mapping by means of testcrosses or tetrad analysis. Chapter 4 is concerned with DNA as the genetic material and its structure and mode of replication. Some important specialized topics are discussed in Chapters 5 through 7. In Chapter 5, the emphasis is on the structure and molecular organization of chromosomes and on the types of DNA sequences that occur in eukaryotic chromosomes. The genetic consequences of variation in chromosome number and structure are discussed in Chapter 6, which also includes the human chromosome complement and common abnormalities. Chapter 7 concerns extranuclear inheritance associated with genetic determinants transmitted through the cytoplasm. Chapters 8 through 10 deal with genetics at the population level. The basic principles of population genetics are introduced in Chapter 8 and their implications for the process of evolution in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 covers the important subject of quantitative genetics and the ways in which the principles of quantitative genetics are applied to the improvement of agricultural animals and plants. Chapter 10 also includes examples and pitfalls of the application of quantitative genetics to human behavioral traits. While population and evolutionary genetics are generally regarded as highly mathematical subjects, most students will find that we have reduced the mathematics to an easily manageable level. Chapters 11 through 16 pick up the thread of molecular genetics introduced earlier and develop it in greater detail. Chapter 11 focuses on the special genetic features of bacteria and viruses and emphasizes their importance in revealing many key principles of genetics. Chapter 12 provides the details of gene expression through gene transcription, RNA processing and translation. The processes of mutation and mutagenesis form the subject of Chapter 13. In Chapter 14, we consider the mechanisms that govern gene regulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Learning more about these mechanisms provides the impetus of much current research in genetics. Chapter 15 deals with genetic studies of somatic cells in culture and also with the immunological subjects of blood groups, antibody and T-cell receptor variability, and histo-compatibility genes that affect transplant success. In Chapter 16, we emphasize the technical side of molecular genetics through the use of recombinant DNA in genetic engineering. These important procedures have revolutionized genetic analysis and have resulted in many commercial applications in medicine and agriculture. Basic Genetics contains a number of special features to aid the learning process. Each chapter is provided with a summary of its key points. In addition to the key words that are listed at the end of each chapter, there is a glossary at the end of the book. Each chapter contains one or more demonstration problems that are worked, and the reasoning is explained in detail. These worked problems exemplify the application of key concepts and prin-ciples. Each chapter is provided with numerous problems, graded in diffi-culty, for the students to test their understanding, and the methods of solution and answers are given at the end of the book. We are indebted to the many reviewers, too numerous to mention indi-vidually, who advised us during the preparation of this book and who read and criticized all or parts of it. These include specialists in various aspects of genetics who checked the text for accuracy, instructors in genetics who evaluated the material for suitability in teaching, and most importantly, the undergraduate and graduate students who told us when our explanations of difficult concepts were succeeding and also when they were opaque and in need of further clarification. Special thanks goes to several colleagues who reviewed the galley proofs: F. B. Hall, Department of Plant Sciences, University of British Columbia; Duane L. Johnson, Department of Agronomy, Colorado State University; and Ken Jones, Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge. We also wish to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Jones and Bartlett Publishers and the production staff that produced this book. Much of the credit for the attractiveness of the book should go to them. The list is again a long one, but we should single out Donna Salmon, who did the art work, Hal Lockwood, book designer, and Robin Lockwood, production editor. We are also grateful to the many people who contributed photographs, drawings and micrographs from their own research and publications.

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