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"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens--the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
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Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"There's a secret code inside you, a code called DNA. A code that tells your body's cells what they should do each day. It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles. It makes us into people, instead of into poodles. Why can't humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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"It's inside every living plant and animal, from the tiniest seed to the person standing next to you, but how much do you know about DNA? This book gives children an in-depth look at DNA and its role in all living things -- from why we have different-colored eyes to why we age. Discover what DNA is, what it does, and how it shapes our lives, including inheritance and why we look like our parents; forensic science and how DNA evidence helps catch...
7) The God gene
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Series
Ice sequence volume 2
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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448 pages ; 23 cm
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Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene." A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain developmentspecifically creativityand laymen started calling it "the God Gene." Keith...
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Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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68 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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"Why do children look like their parents? Why are some people blond and others brunette, and where do we get our eye colour from? This book explains genetic theory, what genes are, why DNA plays an important role and what all these insights have to do with a curious monk. An exciting journey through the history of science, present-day genetic research and engineering and right through to the question of identity – because who would have thought...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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An introduction to genetic code combines simple, engaging language and expressive, child-friendly illustrations to explain how biological life grows and changes and how DNA combines to make humans both unique and connected to all life on the planet.
11) Life: the leading edge of evolutionary biology, genetics, anthropology, and environmental science
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
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xii, 367 pages ; 21 cm
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Scientists? understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we?ve come?and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we?re heading. Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter compare genes to digital information, and sketch...
12) Code 46
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the near future, privileged classes live and work "Inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "Outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papelles." When fraudulent papelles surface, Seattle fraud investigator William Geld travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez ... a woman with whom he has a passionate affair, but breaks one of society's...
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We usually think of fossils as being composed of rock, the original contents of the organisms lost to time. However, this is changing. Due to new technologies scientists are able to access the ancient biomolecules--the pigments, proteins, chemicals, and DNA--that once performed critical roles in organisms and have been preserved accross millions of years. This book introduces readers to the new science of ancient biomolecules and what it tells about...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
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307 p. ; 24 cm.
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Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the murder of her sister, Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence.
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Watkins Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
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xxxix, 534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Argues that specific genetic markers in human DNA are designed to transform core beliefs and raise humankind to a higher level of awareness, and reveals the underlying genetic patterns governing relationships, finances, and health.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
376, 12 pages ; 24 cm
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Investigating DNA revelations that say her father is a man she never met, Paige learns about her mother's past as a straitlaced university student who had a one-night stand with the campus golden boy.
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Meg Langslow mysteries volume 32
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
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Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you’re a Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the holiday there, far from family and friends, with only a slim chance of a white Christmas. Meg already has her hands full, trying to make the season festive for the dozen programmers who are staying with her and Michael while working on a rush project with her brother’s software company. At least it’s an interesting project, since...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In the aftermath of a young geneticist's shocking DNA discovery, power-hungry Homer Stennis Ironwood endeavors to penetrate the MacClary family, who guard ancient secrets about humanity's past associations with gods.
19) Splice
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new era.
20) The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"How biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and popular television...
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