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000 -LEADER |
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001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
435911966 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20201027112407.0 |
006 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--ADDITIONAL MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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090905s2009 nyumb sb a001 0 eng d |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780816066810 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
AEA |
Transcribing agency |
AEA |
Modifying agency |
AEA |
Description conventions |
rda |
050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
QH 442 |
Item number |
.H664 2009 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Hodge, Russ, |
Dates associated with a name |
1961- |
9 (RLIN) |
15044 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Genetic engineering |
Remainder of title |
manipulating the mechanisms of life |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Facts On File, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[2009] |
264 ## - PUBLISHER--PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Facts On File, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[2009] |
265 ## - SOURCE FOR ACQUISITION/SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS |
Source for acquisition/subscription address |
Golden Books Services, Inc |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xx, 219 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations (some color), color map ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
336 ## - rdacontent |
Content type term (R) |
text |
Content type code (R) |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
Series statement |
Genetics & evolution. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
From breeding to a science of heredity -- The origins of domestic plants and animals -- The rise of agriculture and domestication -- Early ideas of inheritance -- The girl who gave birth to rabbits -- Heredity and the theory of evolution -- Gregor Mendel discovers the laws of heredity -- Classical genetics (1900-1950) -- Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes -- The rediscovery of Mendel's work -- Chromosomes and heredity -- The debate over natural selection -- Sex and the X-Y chromosomes -- Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory -- Gene maps -- Chromosome puzzles -- Maize and "jumping genes" -- "One gene makes one enzyme" -- Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970) -- Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes -- Genes are made of DNA -- The double helix -- RNA is the messenger -- The architecture of genes -- On-off switches for genes -- The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms -- The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990) -- Recombinant DNA -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knockouts, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions -- Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics -- Transgenic animals and models of human disease -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genetic engineering in the age of genomes -- The complexity of genomes -- Introns and alternative splicing -- Noncoding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knockouts -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- DNA vaccines and T-cell therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics -- GM foods and the rise of environmental movements -- Owning genes, genomes, and living beings -- A look farther ahead. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Genetic engineering |
General subdivision |
Popular works. |
9 (RLIN) |
15045 |
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
Uniform title |
Genetics and evolution. |
9 (RLIN) |
15046 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Item type |
Reference |