Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics - Couverture rigide

Mawer, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0810957485 ISBN 13 : 9780810957480

Editeur : Harry N. Abrams, 2006

Synopsis

In the mid-nineteenth century, Gregor Mendel, a friar who taught natural science in the provincial Austro-Hungarian capital of Brunn (today Brno, Czech Republic), began to experiment with breeding garden peas. Meticulously recording his observations of their inherited traits over a number of generations, he developed the basis of the modern science of genetics. Mendel's discoveries were so far in advance of their day that it wasn't until 50 years had passed that their importance was recognised by the scientific community. Today he is recognised as one of the great scientists of history. The story of genetics, of course, did not stop with Mendel. In a fascinating account of scientific history, author Simon Mawer continues the narrative through the work of the life-scientists who built their own research on Mendel's discoveries. These include the discovery of the DNA molecule by scientists led by James Watson and Francis Crick in the early 1950s, the Human Genome Project completed in 2003, and the remarkable discoveries of geneticists that continue today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Mawer is both a well-known novelist and a biologist. His historical novels include The Fall (2003), The Gospel of Judas (2000), and Mendel's Dwarf (1997). The son of a Royal Air Force pilot, Mawer spent his childhood in England, Cyprus and Malta. He attended university at Brasenose College in Oxford and earned his degree in biology. Following a brief tour of the Channel Islands, Scotland and Malta, Mawer settled in Italy. He now lives with his wife and two children in Rome, where he has spent the past twenty years teaching biology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harry N. Abrams
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810957485
• ISBN 13: 9780810957480
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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