The Study of Gene Action / / Bruce Wallace, Joseph O. Falkinham.

In The Study of Gene Action, Bruce Wallace and Joseph O. Falkinham III review the problems that confronted geneticists in successive eras. New technologies, developed to solve the problems, inevitably stimulated an awareness of subtler problems that awaited still more sophisticated technologies.The...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1997
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 97 halftones, 13 tables
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
1. Introduction --
2. Inborn Errors of Metabolism --
3. Research Organisms, Tools, and Procedures --
4. Morphology --
5. Color --
6. Position Effect --
7. Using the Environment as a Research Tool --
8. Fate Maps: Studying Development through the Use of Mosaics --
9. Transposable Elements --
10. Tailoring Genes --
11. Epilogue --
References --
Index
Summary:In The Study of Gene Action, Bruce Wallace and Joseph O. Falkinham III review the problems that confronted geneticists in successive eras. New technologies, developed to solve the problems, inevitably stimulated an awareness of subtler problems that awaited still more sophisticated technologies.The rediscovery of Mendel's studies of inheritance in 1900 catalyzed two branches of research: an investigation of the physical nature of the gene and an elucidation of the means by which the gene performs its function. In The Search for the Gene, Wallace described efforts to identify and characterize the physical basis for the phenomena Mendel observed. The Study of Gene Action, the companion volume, documents the research, accelerating over time, to specify how genes carry out their functions.Initially limited to an examination of external features and subsequently to classical genetics and cytogenetic analyses, research was revolutionized by Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. The domain of genetics became inseparable from chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501739088
9783110536171
DOI:10.7591/9781501739088
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Bruce Wallace, Joseph O. Falkinham.