Overview
- Summary
- "Evelyn Fox Keller provides an analysis of the achievements to genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology's progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain."--Jacket.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2000]
©2000 - Contents
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Introduction : the life of a powerful word
Motors of stasis and change : the regulation of genetic stability
Meaning of gene function : what does a gene do?
Concept of a genetic program : how to make an organism
Concept of a genetic analysis : what keeps development on track?
Conclusion : what are genes for? - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.
Introduction : the life of a powerful word -- Motors of stasis and change : the regulation of genetic stability -- Meaning of gene function : what does a gene do? -- Concept of a genetic program : how to make an organism -- Concept of a genetic analysis : what keeps development on track? -- Conclusion : what are genes for?
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0674003721
9780674003729 - Physical Description
- 186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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