B R I E F

C O N T E N T S

PA R T I V MOLECULAR PROPERTIES

PA R T I INTRODUCTION
1

Overview of Genetics

OF GENES

PA R T I I PATTERNS OF INHERITANCE
2

Mendelian Inheritance

17

Chromosome Transmission During Cell

Division and Sexual Reproduction 45

Extensions of Mendelian Inheritance

Non-Mendelian Inheritance

Genetic Linkage and Mapping

in Eukaryotes 126

74

12

Gene Transcription and RNA Modification

13

Translation of mRNA

14

Gene Regulation in Bacteria

15

Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes I:

Transcriptional Regulation 368

16

Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes II: Epigenetics

and Regulation at the RNA Level 392

17

Genetics of Viruses

18

Gene Mutation and DNA Repair

19

Recombination and Transposition at the

Molecular Level 473

102

Genetic Transfer and Mapping in Bacteria

and Bacteriophages 156

Variation in Chromosome Structure

and Number 183

287

315
344

417
443

PA R T V GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES

PA R T I I I MOLECULAR STRUCTURE &

REPLICATION OF THE GENETIC
MATERIAL

Molecular Structure of DNA and RNA

10

Chromosome Organization and Molecular

Structure 239

11

DNA Replication

20

DNA Technologies

496

21

Biotechnology

22

Genomics I: Analysis of DNA

23

Genomics II: Functional Genomics, Proteomics,

and Bioinformatics 579

528
553

215

PA R T V I GENETIC ANALYSIS

261

OF INDIVIDUALS AND
POPULATIONS

24

Medical Genetics and Cancer

25

Developmental Genetics

26

Population Genetics

27

Quantitative Genetics

702

28

Evolutionary Genetics

728

606

640

671

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