How Scientists Think: Twenty-One Experiments that Have Shaped Our Understanding of Genetics and Molecular Biology

by by George Johnson

This concise book is an intriguing way to foster critical thinking and reinforce the scientific method in your biology course. It expands on the experiments offered in Biology, with 21 chapters devoted to discussions of classic genetics or molecular biology experiments-many on which the study of biology is founded. This short companion is intended to ... provide students with a closer look at some key experiments, as a way of learning how a proper experiment is put together, of seeing how control works, of appreciating the raw originality that sometimes adds flavor and excitement to science-and, above all, of seeing how science is really done. Clean, clear thinking lies at the heart of every good experiment.

102 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 1995