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

By:

Cobb, Matthew, 1957-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2015Description: xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780465062676
0465062679

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DDC classification:

572.8/633 23

LOC classification:

QH447 .C653l 2015

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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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"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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