University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The purpose of this book is to highlight meaning patterns in the way that various terms related to the field of genetics are used in context. In essence, there is no better laboratory for studying peoples understanding of genetic science than looking directly at the relevant words themselves.

This book contains chapters on genetics : An introduction; genetics in the classical period, from the great apes to gregor mendel; mendels work and his laws, sources of variations heterozgous expressions; dominance and lethal genes they physical basis of heredity; the plant cell; cell cycle, mitosis; meiosis; multiple and null alleles; linkage and crossing over; reproduction; nucleic acids; DNA and RNA; DNA replication; prokaryotic chromosome, plasmid, phagemid and cosmid; eukaryotic chromosome; giant eukaryotic chromosomes; mammalian artificial chromosome (MACs); chromosome manipulation; gynogenesis, androgenesis and polyploidy; abnormalities in chromosome structure; epistasis; transposable genetic elements; molecular markers; microsatellites; mutations and genetic disease; multiple factor and blood groups; twins, physical traits and mental traits; sex determination in plants and animals; sex linkage or heterosomal inheritance; recombination; plant self-incompatibility; complexities of genetics; polygenes, behavioral traits, and eugenics; nucleocytoplasmic interaction and cytoplasmic inheritance; population genetics and evolution; environmental risk assessment and transgenic plants; genes in families and in population; the gene; expression; gene isolation; enzymes in genetic engineering; genetic cide; gene cloning and gene isolation; regulation of gene activity; gene silencing and antsense technology; genes and development;bacteiophages; A gentic tool; genetics of escherichia coli; mutations in microorganisms; microbial genomics and quantitative or biometrical genetics.