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(0)David Botstein
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"In this book, the distinguished geneticist David Botstein offers help and advice to scientists and physicians daunted by the arcane technical terms that flourish in his discipline. As knowledge of gene function has progressed over the past century, it has acquired a vocabulary of specialized, sometimes confusing, terms to explain some of its fundamental principles; how traits and diseases are inherited; how genes are organized and regulated in the...
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"Barbara McClintock was born in 1902, within a few years of the rediscovery of Mendel's Laws. Her life, discoveries, and insights span the history of genetic science in this century." "In the 1920s, she became a dominant figure in the group that flourished at Cornell University under R.A. Emerson and made remarkable technical conceptual advances in maize cytogenetics. These studies continued at the California Institute of Technology, in Freiburg,...