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Book SynopsisAbout our authors
William S. Klug is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) in Ewing, New Jersey, where he served as Chair of the Biology Department for 17 years. He received his B.A. degree in Biology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to coming to The College of New Jersey, he was on the faculty of Wabash College as an Assistant Professor, where he first taught genetics, as well as general biology and electron microscopy. His research interests have involved ultrastructural and molecular genetic studies of development, utilizing oogenesis in Drosophila as a model system. He has taught the genetics course as well as the senior capstone seminar course in Human and Molecular Genetics to undergraduate biology majors for over four decades. He was the recipient in 2001 of the first annual teaching award given at T
Table of Contents
I: GENES, CHROMOSOMES, AND HEREDITY
1 Introduction to Genetics
2 Mitosis and Meiosis
3 Mendelian Genetics
4 Extensions of Mendelian Genetics
5 Chromosome Mapping in Eukaryotes
6 Genetic Analysis and Mapping in Bacteria and Bacteriophages
7 Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes
8 Chromosome Mutations: Variation in Number and Arrangement
9 Extranuclear Inheritance
II: DNA: STRUCTURE, REPLICATION, AND ORGANIZATION
10 DNA Structure and Analysis
11 DNA Replication and Recombination
12 DNA Organization in Chromosomes
III: GENE EXPRESSION AND ITS REGULATION
13 The Genetic Code and Transcription
14 Translation and Proteins
15 Gene Mutation, DNA Repair, and Transposition
16 Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria
17 Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes
18 Post-transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes
19 Epigenetics
IV: GENETIC TECHNOLOGY AND GENOMICS
20 Recombinant DNA Technology
21 Genomic Analysis
22 Applications of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
V: GENETIC ANALYSIS OF ORGANISMS AND POPULATIONS
23 Developmental Genetics
24 Cancer Genetics
25 Quantitative Genetics and Multifactorial Traits
26 Population and Evolutionary Genetics
Special Topics in Modern Genetics
ST1 CRISPR and Genomic Editing
ST2 DNA Forensics
ST3 Genomics and Precision Medicine
ST4 Genetically Modified Foods
ST5 Gene Therapy
ST6 Advances in Neurogenetics: The Study of Huntington Disease
Appendices
A. Selected Readings
B. Answers to Selected Problems
