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| Author | : James V. Neel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1994-03-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
We witness the full horror of the nuclear devastation wreaked upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where he went as part of the first team to study the genetic effects of exposure to radiation. And we journey with him as, with wife Priscilla by his side, he travels deep into the Amazon basin to conduct his classic population studies of the Yanomama.
| Author | : Christopher M. Thomas |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0203304330 |
Bacteria are the most ubiquitous of all organisms. Responsible for a number of diseases and for many of the chemical cycles on which life depends, they are genetically adaptable. Vital to this adaptability is the existence of autonomous genetic elements-plasmids-which promote genetic exchange and recombination. The genes carried by any particular plasmid may be found in only a few individuals of any species but can also be shared with other species and thus constitute a horizontal gene pool. This book explains the various contributions that plasmids make to this pool: the replication, stable inheritance and transfer modules, the phenotypic markers they carry, the way they evolve, the ways they contribute to their host population and the approaches that we use to study and classify them. It also looks at what we know about their activity in natural communities and the way that they interact with other mobile elements to promote bacterial evolution.
| Author | : Sharyn McCrumb |
| Publisher | : Arrow |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : 9780099356417 |
| Author | : Vijay Rani Rajpal |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-02-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9783319270944 |
The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050. These projections pose a challenging situation for the agricultural scientists to increase crops productivity to meet the growing food demands. The unavailability and/or inaccessibility to appropriate gene pools with desired traits required to carry out genetic improvement of various crop species make this task formidable for the plant breeders. Incidentally, most of the desired genes reside in the wild genetic relatives of the crop species. Therefore, exploration and characterization of wild genetic resources of important crop species is vital for the efficient utilization of these gene pools for sustainable genetic improvements to assure food security. Further, understanding the myriad complexities of genic and genomic interactions among species, more particularly of wild relatives of crop species and/or phylogenetically distant germplasm, can provide the necessary inputs to increase the effectiveness of genetic improvement through traditional and/or genetic engineering methods. This book provides comprehensive and latest insights on the evolutionary genesis of diversity, access and its utilization in the evolution of various crop species. A comprehensive account of various crops, origin, exploitation of the primary, secondary and tertiary gene pools through breeding, biosystematical, cytogenetical and molecular phylogenetical relationships, and genetic enhancement through biotechnological interventions among others have been provided as the necessary underpinnings to consolidate information on the effective and sustainable utilization of the related genetic resources. The book stresses upon the importance of wild germplasm exploration, characterization and exploitation in the assimilation of important crop species. The book is especially intended for students and scientists working on the genetic improvement of crop species. Plant Breeders, Geneticists, Taxonomists, Molecular Biologists and Plant Biotechnologists working on crop species are going to find this book very useful.
| Author | : Wendy Burden |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2010-04-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101186186 |
In the tradition of Sean Wilsey's Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors, the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in New York, thanks to the inherited fortune of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy's birth, the Burden's had become a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadfastly chauvinistic, and ultimately doomed bluebloods on the verge of financial and moral decline-and were rarely seen not holding a drink. In Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy invites readers to meet her tragically flawed family, including an uncle with a fondness for Hitler, a grandfather who believes you can never have enough household staff, and a remarkably flatulent grandmother. At the heart of the story is Wendy's glamorous and aloof mother who, after her husband's suicide, travels the world in search of the perfect sea and ski tan, leaving her three children in the care of a chain- smoking Scottish nanny, Fifth Avenue grandparents, and an assorted cast of long-suffering household servants (who Wendy and her brothers love to terrorize). Rife with humor, heartbreak, family intrigue, and booze, Dead End Gene Pool offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of old money and gives truth to an old maxim: The rich are different.
| Author | : Ibrahim H. Osman |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1461313619 |
Meta-heuristics have developed dramatically since their inception in the early 1980s. They have had widespread success in attacking a variety of practical and difficult combinatorial optimization problems. These families of approaches include, but are not limited to greedy random adaptive search procedures, genetic algorithms, problem-space search, neural networks, simulated annealing, tabu search, threshold algorithms, and their hybrids. They incorporate concepts based on biological evolution, intelligent problem solving, mathematical and physical sciences, nervous systems, and statistical mechanics. Since the 1980s, a great deal of effort has been invested in the field of combinatorial optimization theory in which heuristic algorithms have become an important area of research and applications. This volume is drawn from the first conference on Meta-Heuristics and contains 41 papers on the state-of-the-art in heuristic theory and applications. The book treats the following meta-heuristics and applications: Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Networks & Graphs, Scheduling and Control, TSP, and Vehicle Routing Problems. It represents research from the fields of Operations Research, Management Science, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.
| Author | : O. E. Vey |
| Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781432726072 |
God, aliens, accident or something else? The controversy continues to rage after many thousands of years of argument, speculation, wonder ?Ǫ and murder. In a daring and no holds barred expos??, The Levi Genes, the first book of The Levi Trilogy, exposes the truth of how we got here and how weve developed over the millions of years. The Levi Genes holds nothing back and spares no one to find, expose and explain the truth in a manner everyone can understand. If you cant handle the truth, pretend its all just a made up story. Youll sleep better that way.
| Author | : Alan R. Templeton |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2018-11-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0123860261 |
Human Population Genetics and Genomics provides researchers/students with knowledge on population genetics and relevant statistical approaches to help them become more effective users of modern genetic, genomic and statistical tools. In-depth chapters offer thorough discussions of systems of mating, genetic drift, gene flow and subdivided populations, human population history, genotype and phenotype, detecting selection, units and targets of natural selection, adaptation to temporally and spatially variable environments, selection in age-structured populations, and genomics and society. As human genetics and genomics research often employs tools and approaches derived from population genetics, this book helps users understand the basic principles of these tools. In addition, studies often employ statistical approaches and analysis, so an understanding of basic statistical theory is also needed. - Comprehensively explains the use of population genetics and genomics in medical applications and research - Discusses the relevance of population genetics and genomics to major social issues, including race and the dangers of modern eugenics proposals - Provides an overview of how population genetics and genomics helps us understand where we came from as a species and how we evolved into who we are now
| Author | : Richard Dawkins |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780192860927 |
Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science
