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'The author does an excellent job of showing how genetics is used today (one of the major strengths of the text).' - Kurt Dubear Kroening, University of Wisconsin, USA 'Its major strength is reflected in its title: that it introduces students to genetics as a mode of analysis. Not all students will become practicing geneticists, but what they can take away from learning through this text is how to construct knowledge by analyzing data and solving problems.' - Lynn A. Petrullo, College of New Rochelle, USA
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'The author does an excellent job of showing how genetics is used today (one of the major strengths of the text).' - Kurt Dubear Kroening, University of Wisconsin, USA
'Its major strength is reflected in its title: that it introduces students to genetics as a mode of analysis. Not all students will become practicing geneticists, but what they can take away from learning through this text is how to construct knowledge by analyzing data and solving problems.' - Lynn A. Petrullo, College of New Rochelle, USA
'Its major strength is reflected in its title: that it introduces students to genetics as a mode of analysis. Not all students will become practicing geneticists, but what they can take away from learning through this text is how to construct knowledge by analyzing data and solving problems.' - Lynn A. Petrullo, College of New Rochelle, USA
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An extremely good genetics textbook and possibly the best overall textbook I have ever owned.
21 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
The content is well thought out and displayed and is not written complicatedly even though it conveys some very complex ideas.
An absolutely fantastic textbook which I have found no faults with (something that I have never experience before).
An absolutely fantastic textbook which I have found no faults with (something that I have never experience before).
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18 of 25 people found the following review helpful
riddled with run ons and ambiguity
8 April 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm on my first week of class and this is a bad sign of things to come. I am a studious student - an avid textbook reader. Learning has generally been a meditative, pleasurable act for me. Not so with this book! I should have taken a hint when the instructor told us that the most requested tool from their previous students was a reading guide. It's not that these college upperclassmen can't read, this book is really THAT poorly written. Let me demonstrate:
"Another way of characterizing and tracking a segment of DNA is to use a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). In Chapter 1, we learned that restriction enzymes are bacterial enzymes that cut DNA at specific base sequences in the genome (really? I don't remember reading about restriction enzymes and I've read chapter 1 twice. Why not just tell me what it is rather than make me feel like an idiot?). The target sequences have no biological significance in organisms other than bacteria; they are present purely by chance (I am not sure what the author is pondering here). Although the target sites are generally found consistently at specific locations, sometimes, on any one chromosome, a specific target site is missing or there is an extra site (wait wait, what happened to restriction fragment length polymorphism? are you going to explain that?). If such a site flanks the sequence hybridized by a probe, then a Southern hybridization (did not talk about "southern hybridization" before, only "southern blot") will reveal an RFLP (what site? the site that could be cut out by restriction enzyme?). Consider this simple (this word makes me feel dumb) example in which one chromosome of one parent contains an extra site not found in the other chromosomes of that type in that cross: [inserting confusing looking diagram here]"
If you understood that, good for you. For me, it's like trying to pitch a tent on a small cliff amidst a thunderstorm while warding off fire ants. I don't recommend it.
"Another way of characterizing and tracking a segment of DNA is to use a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). In Chapter 1, we learned that restriction enzymes are bacterial enzymes that cut DNA at specific base sequences in the genome (really? I don't remember reading about restriction enzymes and I've read chapter 1 twice. Why not just tell me what it is rather than make me feel like an idiot?). The target sequences have no biological significance in organisms other than bacteria; they are present purely by chance (I am not sure what the author is pondering here). Although the target sites are generally found consistently at specific locations, sometimes, on any one chromosome, a specific target site is missing or there is an extra site (wait wait, what happened to restriction fragment length polymorphism? are you going to explain that?). If such a site flanks the sequence hybridized by a probe, then a Southern hybridization (did not talk about "southern hybridization" before, only "southern blot") will reveal an RFLP (what site? the site that could be cut out by restriction enzyme?). Consider this simple (this word makes me feel dumb) example in which one chromosome of one parent contains an extra site not found in the other chromosomes of that type in that cross: [inserting confusing looking diagram here]"
If you understood that, good for you. For me, it's like trying to pitch a tent on a small cliff amidst a thunderstorm while warding off fire ants. I don't recommend it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Where's the Activation Code???
12 Feb 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Super expensive book. I can't really comment on the book itself, but I was trying to go online to use the interactive student resources, and GUESS WHAT? My brand new book from Amazon didn't come with the activation code? WHAT??? I bought the text AND the student solutions manual NEW from Amazon for almost $200 and there is NO ACTIVATION CODE?? What kind of crap is that????
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Wish I did not buy
28 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am just sitting down to chapter 1 right now... the book has pages that are 2 different sizes and neither size is cut right. Half the pages are cut so that the page numbers on top are cut in half and half have holes at the bottom of the pages like they were supposed to be cut off. It is hard to explain, but the book is an anomaly- I am sure they do not all come this way. I decided to rate this a one star even though I have not read any of the book (which I want to apologize to anybody that offends) because I simply can not believe a book company would not catch this before the book was sent out of the factory. I will use the book anyway- class is starting and it will be a hassle to return it and get a new one- but I wanted to at least let this problem be known to other buyers. Happy studies my friends. T
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