geneticists

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geneticists

Genetics and genetic engineering

2004
A hotly debated topic in America today. Issues such as decisions about genetic testing to screen for disease susceptibility and the implications for tests results; whether to permit cloning of human organs and the moral dilemma of "playing God"; and the advisability of raising genetically modified crops are discussed in coffee shops and classsrooms across the nation.

The laws of genetics and Gregor Mendel

2014
Discusses the life and genetics research of Gregor Mendel.

Barbara McClintock

2003
Presents the life and career of the geneticist who in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Prize for her study of maize cells.

A feeling for the organism

the life and work of Barbara McClintock
2003
Provides a biography on the Nobel Prize winning biologist Barbara McClintock and includes discussions on the genetics work she performed before the discovery of DNA.

Search

a novel of forbidden history
2010

Gregor Mendel

genetics pioneer
2004
Discusses the life and work of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who studied heredity in plants and is considered the father of genetics.

Barbara McClintock

Nobel Prize geneticist
1998
Presents the life and career of the geneticist who spent many years studying the cells of maize and in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Genetics and genetic engineering

1997
Profiles geneticists and highlights discoveries they have made; includes Gregor Mendel and the laws of inheritance, James Watson and the structure of DNA, and Stanley Cohen and genetic engineering.

Gregor Mendel

and the roots of genetics
1999
Explores the life of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk whose experiments with pea plants became a foundation for modern genetics.

The happiness code

2003
An ambitious scientist discovers a gene that may contain the secret of happiness for everyone, and when it is tested on an unknowing suburban family, the experiment yields surprising results.

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