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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2015Description: xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465062676
  • 0465062679
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 572.8/633 23
LOC classification:
  • QH447 .C653l 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: "'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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) QH447 .C653l 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000200040

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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