Understanding DNA and Gene Cloning: A Guide for the Curious

by Karl Drlica

Do you realize how much impact DNA technology has on your life today? Registering your child's DNA with the police, bold new medical cures, the perfect tomato, gene cloning and DNA manipulation are no longer remote events that will have impact in your life - they are today's headlines! In this highly acclaimed guide, Karl Drlica fully explains the basis of the ongoing genetic revolution. He guides you through the science and technology you need to understand the issues and make informed decisions. This text can be used either as a main text in a course where instructors want to use a thematic, case study approach to biology, a non-majors genes or genomics course, or as a supplement for Introductory Biology.

384 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 1991

Reviews

[dead letter office · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this in one day in preparation for an exam in a biophysics course I'd registered for and then forgotten (you know that dream... it actually *happened*.)

Kind of a hard book to classify. As a textbook it's not very texty. As literature it's not very good.

In the end i'm going to go with textbook since it has like discussion questions and stuff, and any book with discussion questions that isn't a special cheesy book club edition or a faux-intellectual novel by Marisha Pessl is (in my opinion) a textbook.