Genetics? No Problem! (eBook)

Kevin O'Dell (Autor)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781118833841 (ISBN)

Infos

Shortlisted for the HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award 2019: Kevin O'Dell, Author of Genetics? No Problem!
The analysis and interpretation of data is fundamental to the subject of genetics and forms a compulsory part of the undergraduate genetics curriculum. Indeed, the key skills that a genetics student requires are an ability to design and understand experimental strategies and to use problem-solving skills to interpret experimental results and data. Genetics? No Problem! provides students with a graded set of problems that aim to enthuse, challenge and entertain the reader. 

The book is divided into three sections - introductory; intermediate and advanced - each with 10 problems. For first level students there will be short genetics problems embedded in a wide range of scenarios, such as murder mysteries. As the book progresses, the stories will get longer and the science will get progressively more complex to challenge final year students and enable the reader to identify genetic disease in obscure organisms as well as designing and testing treatments and cures.

Genetics? No Problem!:

• Takes a unique, innovative approach that provides students with a set of graded problems designed to develop both their skills, and their ability to tackle problems with confidence
• Includes problems embedded in a narrative, written in an interesting, informative and entertaining style by an Author with a proven track record in teaching, research and communication
• Is well illustrated in full colour throughout.

The book will prove invaluable to all students of genetics across a range of disciplines needing to get to grips with the analysis and interpretation of data that is fundamental to the subject.

Kevin O'Dell is Professor of Behavioural Genetcis and his teaching excellence has been recognised through a number of awards including, in 2012, the 'Best Teacher in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences' at Glasgow University. He is closely involved in curriculum development and public engagement in science, with grants from the Wellcome Trust to set up the 'Zombie Science Project' - aimed at getting young people enthused about science.

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
Foreword 9
Preface 11
Acknowledgements 13
How to Use this Book 15
Section 1 Introductory 17
Chapter1.1 Grandma’s Secret 19
Chapter 1.2 Tiger! Tiger! 23
Chapter 1.3 Anticipation 29
Chapter 1.4 Budgie Hell 33
Chapter 1.5 Friends Reunited 37
Chapter 1.6 The Footballer, his Wife, their Kids and her Lover 41
Chapter 1.7 Give Peas a Chance 45
Chapter 1.8 Noah’s ARC 51
Chapter 1.9 The Mysterious Disappearance of Midnight 55
Chapter 1.10 RANCID 61
Section 2 Intermediate 65
Chapter 2.1 Otto’s Finger 67
Chapter 2.2 The Mystery of Muckle Morag 73
Chapter 2.3 Drosophila hogwashii 79
Chapter 2.4 The Curse of Lilyrot 85
Chapter 2.5 Strawberry Fields Forever 91
Chapter 2.6 The Mystery of Trypton Fell 97
Chapter 2.7 Sir Henry’s Enormous Chest 105
Chapter 2.8 Pandemonium 109
Chapter 2.9 My Imperfect Cousin 117
Chapter 2.10 The Curse of the WERE Rabbits 123
Section 3 Advanced 131
Chapter 3.1 The Legend of Neptune’s Cutlass 133
Chapter 3.2 The Devil’s Pumpkin 145
Chapter 3.3 Gravity 157
Chapter 3.4 Kate and William, a Love Story 167
Chapter 3.5 The Titanians 179
Chapter 3.6 Once Bitten, Twice Shy 191
Chapter 3.7 Red-Crested Dragons of Mythological Island 201
Chapter 3.8 I Scream! 213
Chapter 3.9 The Nuns of Gaborone 225
Chapter 3.10 Poissons Sans Yeux 237
Answers 249
List of Figures 377
EULA 392

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: analysis interpretation • Biowissenschaften • designing treatments • experimental results and data • experimental strategies • Genetics • genetics problems • Genetik • Genom • Genomforschung u. Proteomik • Genomics & Proteomics • Life Sciences • medical genetics • Medical Science • Medizin • Medizinische Genetik • Organisms • Problem-Solving • testing cures
• ISBN-13: 9781118833841 / 9781118833841