Concepts of Genetics

by Charlotte A. Spencer, William S. Klug, Michael A. Palladino, et al.

Book Overview

For all introductory genetics courses Teach students core genetics concepts and applications Concepts of Genetics emphasizes the fundamental ideas of genetics, while exploring modern techniques and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321524047
• ISBN13: 9780321524041
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
• Length: 779 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.9" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Awazing

Great help to those who want to go into genetics or just want to learn a few new facts. Lots of diagrams and pictures to go along with the information for better understanding. Also the book does a great job on explaining most of the topics, a few i think are just difficult to grasp.

Excellent Intro and More

This is extremely well written introducton for undergraduates. I am using it as the backup since my instructor assigned Harwell et al's book, which is not nearly as well written. This book has excellent graphics, the whole book is well organized and well written.

great book, concise

This book covers genetics quite well its concise. It covers all the topics pretty well and also has plenty of genetic problems to make sure you know your stuff. I'd recommend getting the solutions book as well

Highly recommended text on genetics

Concepts of Genetics is an outstanding book. It is the assigned text for a course in genetics that I am taking which is taught through the UC Berkeley Extension program. Course reading assignments cover all but two chapters and so far we have covered about 2/3 of them.I really like the authors' approach to the subject. They do an excellent job of describing complex material in a way that makes it clear and understandable. The many diagrams, drawings and tables are an integral part of the coverage and help significantly to clarify the written explanations. The authors also have a good sense for the history of genetics, describing clearly many key experiments that have been done to establish the key principles.The material has obviously been updated with most recent available results. The authors frequently point out areas of most intense current research. The text is definitely not light reading but if you want to learn the material, you will find it very well presented here.