George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobe
Now available in Soft Cover, DEALING WITH GENES is written by two world-renowned researchers in molecular biology and illustrated with clarity and precision, this beautifully produced book serves as a
How do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it's their time to bloom? What signals them to begin the challenging task of making flowers, and how do they make the variety of flower shape
Examines in detail how genes operate in complex, multicomponent, and interacting systems, in chapters on areas such as mammalian DNA viruses, eukaryotic RNA viruses, retroviruses, oncogenes and cancer