Student Handbook and Solutions Manual for Concepts of Genetics

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About the Book

 

Keep Your Course Current and Relevant

• Two new Special Topics in Modern Genetics mini-chapters explore cutting-edge topics, including CRISPR-Cas and Genomic Editing and Advances in Neurogenetics: The Study of Huntington Disease.

• All Special Topics chapters include a series of questions that help students review key ideas or facilitate personal contemplations and group discussions.
• Assessment questions for Special Topics in Modern Genetics Chapters are assignable in Mastering Genetics.
• Reorganized and expanded coverage of gene regulation in eukaryotes reflects recent discoveries that reveal RNA in many forms play critical roles in the regulation of eukaryotic gene activity.  A single chapter on this topic in previous editions has been expanded to three:  Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Chapter 17), Posttranscriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Chapter 18), and Epigenetics (Chapter 19).
• An increased emphasis on ethical considerations helps students think through ethical aspects of genetics-related issues.  Essays that used to be known as Genetics, Technology, and Society have been replaced or revised as Genetics, Ethics, and Society.  In addition, each chapter ends with a Case Study, each of which raises ethical questions.

Motivate Students to Develop and Practice Problem-solving Skills

• Updated! Mastering Genetics is an online homework and assessment program that guides students through complex topics in genetics, using in-depth tutorials that coach students to correct answers with hints and feedback specific to their misconceptions and errors. See “Personalize Learning with Mastering Genetics.”

Engage Students in Active and Cooperative Learning

• Genetics, Ethics, and Society essays provide a synopsis of an ethical issue related to a current finding in genetics that impacts directly on society today. It includes a section called Your Turn, which directs students to related resources of short readings and websites to support deeper investigation and discussion of the main topic of each essay.
• Case studies at the end of each chapter have been updated with new topics. Students can read and answer questions about a short scenario related to one of the chapter topics. The Case Studies link the coverage of formal genetic knowledge to everyday societal issues, and they include ethical considerations.

Also available with Mastering Genetics

Mastering^™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts. Learn more about Mastering Genetics.

• Dynamic Study Modules (DSMs) help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their performance in real time and adapting to their level of understanding. Students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level in their answer. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently.  These are available as graded assignments prior to class or as self-study tools for students. They are accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. Instructors can remove questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.
• Tutorials have been added to the library on topics like CRISPR—Cas, to help students master important and challenging concepts.
• Pearson eText, optimized for mobile, seamlessly integrates videos and other rich media with the text andgives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere. Pearson eText is available with Mastering Genetics when packaged with new books, or as an upgrade students can purchase online. The Pearson eText mobile app offers:
• Offline access on most iOS and Android phones/tablets.
• Accessibility (screen-reader ready)
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode
• Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search tools
• Embedded videos for a more interactive learning experience

Chapter Content Updates:

 

Chapter 1: Introduction to Genetics

• New introductory vignette that discusses the discovery and applications of the genome-editing CRISPR-Cas system
• Updated section called: We Live in the Age of Genetics

Chapter 7: Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes

• Updated content on the XIST gene product as a long noncoding RNA
• New insights about a novel gene involved in temperature sensitive differentiation of snapping turtles and lizards, as well as the impact of climate change on sex, sex reversal, and sex ratios

Chapter 9: Extranuclear Inheritance

• Updated information on mtDNA disorders and nuclear DNA mismatches

Chapter 11: DNA Replication and Recombination

• New coverage of the role of telomeres in disease, aging, and cancer
• New and expanded coverage of telomeres and chromosome stability, explaining how telomeres protect chromosome ends

Chapter 13: The Genetic Code and Transcription

• New coverage on transcription termination in bacteria
• New section entitled Why Do Introns Exist?
• Updated coverage on RNA editing

Chapter 14: Translation and Proteins

• New coverage of eukaryotic closed-loop translation, including a new figure
• Revised coverage of Beadle and Tatum’s classic experiments
• Expanded coverage on the posttranslational modifications of proteins
• New coverage of the insights gleaned from the crystal structure of the human 80S ribosome

Chapter 15: Gene Mutation, DNA Repair, and Transposons

• New and revised coverage on transposons, focusing on the mechanisms of transposition by both retrotransposons and DNA transposons, as well as a discussion of how transposition creates mutations;two new tables and five new figures are included
• Reorganization of mutation classification section with table summaries
• New and expanded coverage of human germ-line and somatic mutation rates

NEW! Chapter 17: Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes

• Revised chapter organization focuses specifically on transcriptional regulation
• Revised coverage of regulation of the GAL gene system in yeast with an updated figure
• New coverage on genetic boundary elements called insulators

NEW! Chapter 18: Posttranscriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes

• New chapter that greatly expands upon previous coverage of posttranscriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes
• Revised and expanded coverage of alternative splicing and its relevance to human disease
• Expanded coverage on RNA stability and decay with a new figure
• Updated coverage of noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression with a new figure
• Enriched coverage of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation with a new figure

NEW! Chapter 19: Epigenetic Regulation in Eukaryotes

• New chapter on Epigenetics, including coverage of epigenetics and cancer, transmission of epigenetic traits across generations, and the role of epigenetics in behavior
• New coverage on the recently discovered phenomenon of monoallelic expression of autosomal genes
• Updated coverage of epigenome projects

Chapter 20: Recombinant DNA Technology

• Increased emphasis on the importance of whole-genome sequencing approaches
• New coverage of CRISPR-Cas as a gene editing approach including a new figure
• Updated content on next-generation and third-generation sequencing

Chapter 21: Genomic Analysis

• Increased emphasis on the integration of genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics approaches to analyzing genomes and understanding genome function
• A new section entitled Genomic Analysis Before Modern Sequencing Methods, which briefly summarizes approaches to mapping and identifying genes prior to modern sequencing
• Reorganized and revised content on the Human Genome Project.  Updated content on personal genome projects and new content on diploid genomes and mosaicism and the pangenome to emphasize human genetic variations
• New coverage of the Human Microbiome Project including a new figure displaying microbiome results of patients with different human disease conditions
• New coverage of in situ RNA sequencing

Chapter 22: Applications of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

• Updated content on biopharmaceutical products including newly approved recombinant proteins, DNA vaccine trials to immunize against Zika virus, genetically modified organisms, and gene drive in mosquitoes to control spread of Zika
• New coverage of genes essential for life and how synthetic genomics is being applied to elucidate them; clarification of prognostic and diagnostic genetics tests and the relative value of each for genetic analysis
• New content on DNA and RNA sequencing
• New section entitled Screening the Genome for Genes or Mutations You Want, which discusses how scientists can look at genetic variation that confers beneficial phenotypes
• New section entitled Genetic Analysis by Personal Genomics Can Include Sequencing of DNA and RNA that expands coverage of personal genome projects and new approaches for single-cell genetic analysis of DNA and RNA

 

Chapter 23: Developmental Genetics

• New section entitled Epigenetic Regulation of Development
• New coverage of DNA methylation and progressive restriction of developmental potential
• Expanded coverage of binary switch genes and regulatory networks

Chapter 24: Cancer Genetics

• Extended coverage of environmental agents that contribute to human cancers), including more information about both natural and human-made carcinogens
• New section entitled Tobacco Smoke and Cancer explaining how a well-studied carcinogen induces a wide range of genetic effects that may lead to mutations and cancer
• New section entitled Cancer Therapies and Cancer Cell Biology, describing the mechanisms of chemotherapies and radiotherapies as they relate to cancer cell proliferation, DNA repair, and apoptosis

Chapter 25: Quantitative Genetics and Multifactorial Traits

• Updated coverage on quantitative trait loci (QTLs)
• Revised and expanded section eQTLs and Gene Expression

Chapter 26: Population and Evolutionary Genetics

• New coverage on vertebrate evolution
• New coverage of phylogenetic trees
• Updated coverage on the origins of the human genome
• New section entitled Genotype and Allele Frequency Changes
• New coverage on pre-and post-zygotic isolating mechanisms

NEW! Special Topics 1: CRISPR-Cas and Genome Editing

• New chapter on a powerful genome editing tool called CRISPR-Cas
• Provides up to date coverage on CRISPR-Cas applications, the patenting of this technology, and the ethical concerns of human genome editing

Special Topics 2: DNA Forensics

• New section on the still controversial DNA Phenotyping Method, including new explanations of how law enforcement agencies currently use DNA phenotyping

Special Topics 3: Genomics and Precision Medicine

• New section entitled Precision Oncology, including descriptions of two targeted cancer immunotherapies: adoptive cell transfer and engineered T-cell therapies
• Updated pharmacogenomics coverage, including a description of new trends in pre-emptive gene screening for pharmacogenomic variants as well as the pGEN4Kids program, a pre-emptive gene screening program that integrates DNA analysis data into patient electronic health records

Special Topics 4: Genetically Modified Foods

• New section entitled Gene Editing and Genetically Modified Foods describing how scientists are using the new techniques of gene editing (including ZFN, TALENS, and CRISPR-Cas) to create GM plants and animals, and how these methods are changing the way in which GM foods are being regulated
• A new box entitled The New CRISPR Mushroom describing the development and regulatory approval of the first CRISPR-created GM food to be approved for human consumption

Special Topics 5: Gene Therapy

• Updated current data on gene therapy trials underway
• Reordered chapter content to highlight emergence of CRISPR-Cas in a new section on Gene Editing
• Substantially expanded content on CRISPR-Cas including a brief summary of some of the most promising trials in humans and animals to date
• Incorporation of antisense RNA and RNA interference into a new section entitled RNA-based Therapeutics, including updated trials involving spinal muscular atrophy
• Updated content on roles for stem cells in gene therapy
• New content on combining gene editing with immunotherapy
• New ethical discussions on CRISPR-Cas and germ-line and embryo editing

NEW! Special Topics  6: Advances in Neurogenetics: The Study of Huntington Disease (HD)

• New chapter that surveys the study of HD commencing around 1970 up to the current time
• Coverage of the genetic basis and expression of HD, the mapping and isolation of the gene responsible for the disorder, the mutant gene product, molecular and cellular alterations caused by the mutation, transgenic animal models of HD, cellular and molecular approaches to therapy, and a comparison of HD to other inherited neurodegenerative disorders

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what’s new in this edition.

Brief Contents

Part One—Genes, Chromosomes, and Heredity

1. Introduction to Genetics
2. Mitosis and Meiosis
3. Mendelian Genetics
4. Extensions of Mendelian Genetics
5. Chromosome Mapping in Eukaryotes
6. Genetic Analysis and Mapping in Bacteria and Bacteriophages
7. Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes
8. Chromosome Mutations: Variation in Number and Arrangement
9. Extranuclear Inheritance

Part Two—DNA: Structure, Replication, and Organization

1. DNA Structure and Analysis
2. DNA Replication and Recombination
3. DNA Organization in Chromosomes

Part Three—Gene Expression and Its Regulation

1. The Genetic Code and Transcription
2. Translation and Proteins
3. Gene Mutation, DNA Repair, and Transposition
4. Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria
5. Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes
6. Post-transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes
7. Epigenetic Regulation in Eukaryotes

Part Four—Genomics

1. Recombinant DNA Technology
2. Genomic Analysis
3. Applications of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Part Five—Genetics of Organisms and Populations

1. Developmental Genetics
2. Cancer Genetics
3. Quantitative Genetics and Multifactorial Traits
4. Population and Evolutionary Genetics

Special Topics in Modern Genetics

• ST1 CRISPR and Genomic Editing
• ST2 DNA Forensics
• ST3 Genomics and Precision Medicine
• ST4 Genetically Modified Foods
• ST5 Gene Therapy
• ST6 Advances in Neurogenetics: The Study of Huntington Disease

Appendix A Selected Readings

Appendix B Answers to Selected Problems

About the Book

 

Keep Your Course Current and Relevant

• Two new Special Topics in Modern Genetics mini-chapters explore cutting-edge topics, including CRISPR-Cas and Genomic Editing and Advances in Neurogenetics: The Study of Huntington Disease.

• All Special Topics chapters include a series of questions that help students review key ideas or facilitate personal contemplations and group discussions.
• Assessment questions for Special Topics in Modern Genetics Chapters are assignable in Mastering Genetics.
• Reorganized and expanded coverage of gene regulation in eukaryotes reflects recent discoveries that reveal how RNA in many forms plays critical roles in the regulation of eukaryotic gene activity.  A single chapter on this topic in previous editions has been expanded to three:  Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Chapter 17), Posttranscriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Chapter 18), and Epigenetics (Chapter 19).
• An increased emphasis on ethical considerations helps students think through ethical aspects of genetics-related issues.  Essays that used to be known as Genetics, Technology, and Society have been replaced or revised as Genetics, Ethics, and Society.  In addition, each chapter ends with a Case Study, each of which raises ethical questions.
• Modern Approaches to Understanding Gene Function feature challenges students to understand how modern gene targeting approaches (such as the use of transgenic animals, knockout animals, and RNA interference) have dramatically advanced our understanding of gene function. Each entry highlights representative experimental approaches, analyzes experimental data, and relates to a concept discussed in the chapter. Each feature includes questions for further analysis or discussion.

Motivate Students to Develop and Practice Problem-solving Skills

• Updated! Mastering Genetics is an online homework and assessment program that guides students through complex topics in genetics, using in-depth tutorials that coach students to correct answers with hints and feedback specific to their misconceptions and errors. See “Personalize Learning with Mastering Genetics.”
• Now Solve This Problems are integrated throughout each chapter to test student knowledge while learning chapter content. Exercises include a hint to guide students and a brief answer is provided in the appendix. One Now Solve This problem per chapter is linked to related end of chapter problems to make it easier for professors to assign similar problems for homework.
• Insights and Solutions sections strengthen students’ problem solving skills by showing step-by-step solutions and rationales for select problems.
• Problems and Discussion Questions are found at the end of every chapter and most are assignable in Mastering Genetics.
• Extra Spicy Problems challenge students to solve complex problems, many based on data derived from primary genetics literature.
• How Do We Know? questions appear as the first entry in the Problems and Discussion Questions and ask students to identify the experimental basis underlying important concepts and conclusions—that is, how we know what we know. Students are asked to review numerous findings discussed in the chapter and to summarize the process of discovery that was involved.  

Emphasize the Fundamental Ideas of Genetics

• A Concept Question, found as the second question in the Problems and Discussion Questions, asks the student to review and comment on common aspects of the Key Concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter. This feature places added emphasis on the pedagogic approach of conceptual learning.
• Evolving Concept of the Gene is a short feature, integrated in appropriate chapters, that highlights how scientists’ understanding of what a gene is has changed over time. Since we cannot see genes, we must infer just what this unit of heredity is, based on experimental findings. By highlighting how scientists’ conceptualization of the gene has advanced over time, this feature helps students appreciate the process of discovery that has lead to an even more sophisticated understanding of hereditary information.

Engage Students in Active and Cooperative Learning

• NEW! Genetics, Ethics, and Society essays provide a synopsis of an ethical issue related to a current finding in genetics that impacts directly on society today. It includes a section called Your Turn, which directs students to related resources of short readings and websites to support deeper investigation and discussion of the main topic of each essay.
• Case studies at the end of each chapter have been updated with new topics. Students can read and answer questions about a short scenario related to one of the chapter topics. The Case Studies link the coverage of formal genetic knowledge to everyday societal issues, and they include ethical considerations.
• Exploring Genomics boxes help students apply genetics to modern techniques such as genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics. These boxes illustrate how genomic studies have an impact on every aspect of genetics. Exercises provide thoughtful questions and direct students to related online resources, allowing them to increase their awareness of genomics.

Also available with Mastering Genetics

Mastering^™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts. Learn more about Mastering Genetics.

• NEW! Dynamic Study Modules (DSMs) help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their performance in real time and adapting to their level of understanding. Students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level in their answer. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently.  These are available as graded assignments prior to class or as self-study tools for students. They are accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. Instructors can delete  questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.
• NEW! Tutorials have been added to the library on topics like CRISPR–Cas, to help students master important and challenging concepts.
• A library of 104 Practice Problems offers more opportunities to assign high quality problems for student homework or practice. These questions appear only in Mastering Genetics and include targeted wrong-answer feedback to help students learn from their mistakes.
• More than 120 activities and in-depth tutorials, focused on key genetics concepts, reinforce problem-solving skills with hints and feedback specific to students’ misconceptions and errors. Tutorial topics include pedigree analysis, sex linkage, gene interactions, DNA replication, and more.
• Approximately 90% of end-of-chapter questions are available for auto-graded homework assignments. To prepare students for the challenging problems that they are likely to see on exams, question types include sorting, labeling, entering numerical information, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• 24/7 Coaching in Solving Genetics Problems give students access hints to get back on track at the moment when they get stuck. If an incorrect answer is submitted, Mastering Genetics gives instant feedback specific to the error made, helping students overcome misconceptions and strengthen problem-solving skills.
• Publisher Pre-built Assignments, curated by experienced Mastering Genetics users, consist of a broad range of high quality content focused on the key ideas of each chapter.  They make it easy to build assignments, and professors can use them as-is or customize them.
• Assessment questions for Special Topics in Modern Genetics Chapters are assignable in the Mastering Genetics item library,
• NEW! Pearson eText, optimized for mobile, seamlessly integrates videos and other rich media with the text andgives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere. Pearson eText is available with Mastering Genetics when packaged with new books, or as an upgrade students can purchase online. The Pearson eText mobile app offers:
• Offline access on most iOS and Android phones/tablets
• Accessibility (screen-reader ready)
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode
• Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search tools
• Embedded videos for a more interactive learning experience
• Learning Catalytics^™ helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Learning Catalytics acts as a student response tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
• Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
• Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
• Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
• Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.
• Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck to easily create slide questions.

 

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what’s new in this edition.

About our authors

William S. Klug is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) in Ewing, New Jersey, where he served as Chair of the Biology Department for 17 years. He received his B.A. degree in Biology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to coming to The College of New Jersey, he was on the faculty of Wabash College as an Assistant Professor, where he first taught genetics, as well as general biology and electron microscopy. His research interests have involved ultrastructural and molecular genetic studies of development, utilizing oogenesis in Drosophila as a model system. He has taught the genetics course as well as the senior capstone seminar course in Human and Molecular Genetics to undergraduate biology majors for over four decades. He was the recipient in 2001 of the first annual teaching award given at The College of New Jersey, granted to the faculty member who most challenges students to achieve high standards. He also received the 2004 Outstanding Professor Award from Sigma Pi International, and in the same year, he was nominated as the Educator of the Year, an award given by the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. When he is away from revision files and reading the genetic literature, he can often be found paddling in the Gulf of Mexico or in Maine’s Pebobscot Bay.

Michael R. Cummings is Research Professor in the Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. For more than 25 years, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences and in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also served on the faculties of Northwestern University and Florida State University. He received his B.A. from St. Marys College in Winona, Minnesota, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to this text and its companion volumes, he has also written textbooks in human genetics and general biology for nonmajors. His research interests center on the molecular organization and physical mapping of the heterochromatic regions of human acrocentric chromosomes. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses in Mendelian and molecular genetics, human genetics, and general biology, and has received numerous awards for teaching excellence given by university faculty, student organizations, and graduating seniors.

Charlotte A. Spencer is a retired Associate Professor from the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has also served as a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta. She received her B.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of British Columbia and her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Alberta, followed by postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. Her research interests involve the regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription in cancer cells, cells infected with DNA viruses, and cells traversing the mitotic phase of the cell cycle. She has taught courses in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and oncology, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, she has written booklets in the Prentice Hall Exploring Biology series, which are aimed at the undergraduate nonmajor level.

Michael A. Palladino is Dean of the School of Science and Professor of Biology at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He received his B.S. degree in Biology from Trenton State College (now known as The College of New Jersey) and his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of Virginia. He directs an active laboratory of undergraduate student researchers studying molecular mechanisms involved in innate immunity of mammalian male reproductive organs and genes involved in oxygen homeostasis and ischemic injury of the testis. He has taught a wide range of courses for both majors and nonmajors and currently teaches genetics, biotechnology, endocrinology, and laboratory in cell and molecular biology. He has received several awards for research and teaching, including the 2009 Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Andrology, the 2005 Distinguished Teacher Award from Monmouth University, and the 2005 Caring Heart Award from the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research. He is co-author of the undergraduate textbook Introduction to Biotechnology, Series Editor for the Benjamin Cummings Special Topics in Biology booklet series, and author of the first booklet in the series, Understanding the Human Genome Project.

Darrell J. Killian is an Associate Professor and current Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He received his B.A. degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut prior to working as a Research Technician In Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller University in New York, New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Genetics from New York University in New York, New York and received his postdoctoral training at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Prior to joining Colorado College, he was an Assistant Professor of Biology at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey. His research focuses on the genetic regulation of animal development and he has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Currently, he and his undergraduate research assistants are investigating the molecular genetic regulation of nervous system development using C. elegans and Drosophila as model systems. He teaches undergraduate courses in genetics, molecular and cellular biology, stem cell biology, and developmental neurobiology. When away from the classroom and lab, he can often be found on two wheels exploring trails in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests.

This valuable handbook provides a detailed step-by step solution or lengthy discussion for every problem in the text. The handbook also features additional study aids, including extra study problems, chapter outlines, vocabulary exercises, and an overview of how to study genetics.

This valuable handbook provides a detailed step-by step solution or lengthy discussion for every problem in the text. The handbook also features additional study aids, including extra study problems, chapter outlines, vocabulary exercises, and an overview of how to study genetics.

Additional information

Dimensions	0.80 × 8.50 × 10.80 in
Imprint	Pearson
Format	gen
ISBN-13	09780134870083
ISBN-10	0134870085
Author	Charlotte A. Spencer, Darrell Killian, Michael A Palladino, Michael Cummings, William S Klug
Subjects	science, biology, life sciences, genetics, higher education