Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes

Written by two renowned authorities, Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes, Seventh Edition provides the most current, clear, comprehensive, and balanced introduction to genetics and genomics at the college level. Expanding upon the key elements that have made the text a success, the authors have added important new material to virtually every chapter, including sections on high-throughput genotyping, massively parallel sequencing, comparative genomics, genomic islands, copy number polymorphisms, characteristics of quantitative trait loci for disease risk factors, and much more. They continue to treat transmission genetics, molecular genetics, and evolutionary genetics as fully integrated subjects and provide students with an unprecedented understanding of the basic process of gene transmission, mutation, expression, and regulation. Integrated critical thinking exercises and problem sets allow for a mastery of key genetic concepts, while the end-of-chapter Guide to Problem-Solving sections demonstrate the concepts needed to efficiently solve problems and understand the reasoning behind the correct answer.

New & Key Features

New Areas of Coverage include:

• Concepts of genetic analysis and mutants

• Using the algebraic expression to solve 3-gene crosses

• Probability in genetic analysis in a major new section

• Expanded discussion of the mitotic spindles' three types of microtubules

• Massively parallel sequencing

• And much more!

New! End-of-chapter problems and newly worked-out exercises.

NEW! Updated material on epigenetic effects, including histone modification, RNAi and microRNA, gene activity in the "inactive" X chromosome, and much more!

New! Contemporary design draws students into the text.

Connecting past and present, the Connections are unique excerpts from the original literature of genetics, each introduced with a brief explanatory passage.