Ebook: Genetics essentials : concepts and connections

Introduction to genetics -- Chromosomes and cellular reproduction -- Basic principles of heredity -- Extensions and modifications of basic principles -- Linkage, recombination, and eukaryotic gene mapping -- Bacterial and viral genetic systems -- Chromosome variation -- DNA: the chemical nature of the gene -- DNA replication and recombination -- From DNA to proteins: transcription and RNA processing -- From DNA to proteins: translation -- Control of gene expression -- Gene mutations, transposable elements, and DNA repair -- Molecular genetic analysis, biotechnology, and genomics -- Cancer genetics -- Quantitative genetics -- Population and evolutionary genetics