Life's greatest secret : the race to crack the genetic code /

Cobb, Matthew, 1957-

Life's greatest secret : the race to crack the genetic code / Matthew Cobb. - xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Profile Books Ltd"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-404) and index.

Contenidos:
Genes before DNA
Information is everywhere
The transformation of genes
A slow revolution
The age of control
The double helix
Genetic information
The central dogma
Enzyme cybernetics
Enter the outsiders
The race
Update
Surprises and sequences
The central dogma revisited
Brave new world
Origins and meanings

"'Life s Greatest Secret' is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule to give rise to the life that exists all around us"--

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Genetic code.
DNA.

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