Genetics Essentials

Benjamin Pierce is Professor of Biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he teaches courses in genetics and evolution. He previously taught at Connecticut College and Baylor University. Ben is a population geneticist who conducts ecological and evolutionary research on amphibians. He has authored a number of articles in research journals and several books, including The Family Genetics Sourcebook, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Genetics Essentials: Concepts and Connections, and Transmission and Population Genetics: A Short Course. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and is a fellow of the Texas Academy of Science. He has received grants from the Natural Science Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the 3M Foundation, the National Park Service, the Williamson County Conservation Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.

Brief Contents 1. Introduction to Genetics 2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction  3. Basic Principles of Heredity  4. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles  5. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping  6. Chromosome Variation 7. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems 8. DNA: The Chemical Nature of the Gene  9. DNA Replication and Recombination  10. From DNA to Proteins: Transcription and RNA Processing  11. From DNA to Proteins: Translation  12. Control of Gene Expression  13. Gene Mutations, Transposable Elements, and DNA Repair  14. Molecular Genetic Analysis and Biotechnology  15. Genomics and Proteomics  16. Cancer Genetics  17. Quantitative Genetics  18. Population and Evolutionary Genetics