Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by Ricki Lewis

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Edition: 12th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Today, human genetics is for everyone. It is about variation more than about illnesses, and increasingly about the common rather than about the rare. Once an obscure science or an occasional explanation for an odd collection of symptoms, human genetics is now part of everyday conversation. By coming to know genetic backgrounds, people can control their environments in more healthy ways. Genetic knowledge is, therefore, both informative and empowering. This edition of Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications shows students how and why that is true.

✦ Table of Contents

About the Author iii
Preface ix
Applying Human Genetics xiii
The Human Touch xiv
The Lewis Guided Learning System xv

PART I Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is in a Human Genome? 1
Chapter 2 Cells 15
Chapter 3 Meiosis, Development, and Aging 40

PART 2 Transmission Genetics
Chapter 4 Single-Gene Inhertance 66
Chapter 5 Beyond Mendel's Laws 86
Chapter 6 Matters of Sex 106
Chapter 7 Multifactorial Traits 124
Chapter 8 Genetics of Behavior 141

PART 3 DNA and Chromosomes
Chapter 9 DNA Structure and Replication 158
Chapter 10 Gene Action: From DNA to Protein 175
Chapter 11 Gene Expression and Epigentics 193
Chapter 12 Gene Mutation 205
Chapter 13 Chromosomes 229

PART 4 Population Genetics
Chapter 14 Constant Allele Frequencies and DNA Forensics 256
Chapter 15 Changing Allele Frequencies 272
Chapter 16 Human Ancestry and Evolution 294

P A R T 5: Immunity and Cancer
Chapter 17: Genetics of Immunity 319
Chapter 18: Cancer Genetics and Genomics 344

P A R T 6: Genetic Technology
Chapter 19: DNA Technologies 365
Chapter 20: Genetic Testing and Treatment 383
Chapter 21: Reproductive Technologies 401
Chapter 22: Genomics 418

Glossary G-1
Index I-1

✦ Subjects

Human genetics--Textbooks.