Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.

See also Science.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Selfish Gene
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
The Epigenetics Revolution
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Double Helix
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Gut by Giulia EndersUndoctored by William  DavisBeyond the Fountain of Youth by Julian Robert Gershon Jr.The End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. BredesenThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul Ola
Healthy Aging
398 books — 122 voters
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaParasite Rex by Carl ZimmerIn the Shadow of Man by Jane GoodallThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Biology
162 books — 26 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Vital Question by Nick LaneLife Ascending by Nick LaneLife's Ratchet by Peter M. HoffmannSnowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker
Best Books On the Origins of Life
37 books — 24 voters
Genetics by Leland H. HartwellGenetics by Benjamin A. PierceLewin's GENES XI by Jocelyn E. KrebsHuman Genetics by Ricki LewisMolecular Biology of the Gene by James D. Watson
Open Syllabus Genetics Books
113 books — 2 voters

Daughter of Family G by Ami McKayThe Bright Hour by Nina RiggsResurrection Lily by Amy Byer ShainmanThe Genome Defense by Jorge L. ContrerasChristmas at Whispering Creek by Barbara M. Britton
BRCA/Hereditary Cancer Books
29 books — 5 voters


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Octavia E. Butler
A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not. ...more
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