A Genetic Switch

by Mark Ptashne

Book Overview

This book is concerned with how lambda, a virus, uses its DNA to direct its growth. Biologists have long wished to know how genes are switched on and off during development and, aberrantly in diseased... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865422095
• ISBN13: 9780865422094
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Ahhh, enlightenment.

This book is a must for molecular biology courses- undergrad and grad alike. It is a beautiful in-depth examination of a model to give us an appreciation for molecular biology at a comfortably sophisticated level. This effective practice of learning generality from particular models is one that, sadly, many professors have gotten away from in our current world of 1200 page textbooks. Ptashne writes with brilliant simplicity without sacrificing nature's complexity.