Kostas Kampourakis

Making Sense of Genes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible but rigorous introduction to genes for non-experts, explaining what genes are and what they can and cannot do.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781107567498
• ISBN-10: 1107567491
• Artikelnr.: 47722195

Autorenporträt

Kostas Kampourakis is a researcher in science education at Université de Genève, where he also teaches the course Biology and Society to biology undergraduates, and various science education classes to teachers and doctoral students. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science and Education, the co-editor of Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science (with Ronald L. Numbers, 2015), and the editor of The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators (2013). His book Understanding Evolution (Cambridge, 2014) was selected as a 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prolegomena: genes, science and science fiction
1. Mendel and the origins of the 'gene' concept
2. The genes of classical genetics
3. The molecularization of genes
4. So, what are genes?
5. 'Genes for' (almost) everything
6. Are there 'genes for' characters?
7. Are there 'genes for' diseases?
8. So, what do genes do?
9. Genes are implicated in the development of characters
10. Genes account for variation in characters
11. Genomes are more than the sum of genes
12. Limitations in the study of genomes
Concluding remarks: how to think and talk about genes?
Further reading
References
Glossary.