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Thoroughly updated with practical information on the latest developments in the biotechnology field, this popular text provides the tools, practice, and basic knowledge for success in the biotech workforce.
With its balanced coverage of basic cell and molecular biology, fundamental techniques, historical accounts, and hands-on applications, the Second Edition emphasizes the relevance of biotechnology in agriculture, medicine, and industry. Special sections on ethical and environmental issues in biotechnology, career profiles, and research “tools” are also highlighted in the book. The Second Edition features a thoroughly revised chapter on ethics.
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William Thieman, formerly of Ventura College, chaired one of the leading biotech programs in California. Co-author Michael A. Palladino is a molecular biologist with considerable experience in directing undergraduate student research in recombinant DNA technology; he is co-author of Concepts of Genetics, Ninth Edition as well as Understanding the Human Genome Project, Second Edition.
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Format:Paperback
This broad book gives a useful overview in the science of Biotechnology. It covers several key aspects rrealting to the science would be well used fora student beginning to understand the science. It says inside "It's hard to imagine a more exciting time to be studying biotechnology!"
and goes on to say about what they hope the book will offer
and goes on to say about what they hope the book will offer
'Providing an engaging and easy-to-understand textbook that is appropriate for a diverse student audience with varying backgrounds and science knowledge'
Basically, it is an all round book specific to the science and claims to be the first textbook written for it.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
good textbook for teaching both nonmajors and majors in biology
10 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
As a profesor, I use this book in my nonmajors Biology and Society class where it functions well to introduce nonscientist to interesting aspects of biotechnology and the important issues surrounding the science. I also use it in my upper-level genetics class where it works as a nice introduction to biotechnology (and review, in some cases) allowing us to delve deeper into the science and issues using assigned papers. I like it a lot, as do my students; and compared with most textbooks it doesn't cost much. I wish it had more color photographs.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
How to find a job and make money in biotechnology
3 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
The focus of this book is what kinds of jobs and products can be found in the area of applied biology. The science and technology part is found in most of the modern biology texts, but what is lacking is a sense of how to apply that understanding to create new products and solve human problems.
This book is a little pricey and if you are only interested in the science and technology aspect you will be better served by buying a paperback edition of one of the better introductory biology texts. The price of several of the paperback intros to biology are less than this book, have many color plates and in depth coverage more three times the length of this book.
It's that focus on jobs and products that provides the justification for publishing this book. Hopefully it will provoke the authors of the major intro to biology texts to provide more material on where their students can later go for employment and how they can, by giving examples, go on to create products that improve the human condition.
If the reader emerges from their encounter with this book by thinking with an employment and products mindset towards the science and technology of biology than it will have fulfilled (in my mind) what appears to be it purpose.
This book is a little pricey and if you are only interested in the science and technology aspect you will be better served by buying a paperback edition of one of the better introductory biology texts. The price of several of the paperback intros to biology are less than this book, have many color plates and in depth coverage more three times the length of this book.
It's that focus on jobs and products that provides the justification for publishing this book. Hopefully it will provoke the authors of the major intro to biology texts to provide more material on where their students can later go for employment and how they can, by giving examples, go on to create products that improve the human condition.
If the reader emerges from their encounter with this book by thinking with an employment and products mindset towards the science and technology of biology than it will have fulfilled (in my mind) what appears to be it purpose.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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17 Feb 2012
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The book was cleaner than the used books at the book store and cost a lot less. It is a paperback so I was impressed by its condition.
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