Student Handbook and Solutions Manual for Concepts of Genetics [Paperback]

 

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

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