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A guinea pig's history of biology / Jim Endersby.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Endersby, Jim
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heredity--History.
- Heredity.
- Genetics--History.
- Genetics.
- History.
- Biology--History.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare 1
- 2 Passiflora gracilis: Inside Darwin's greenhouse 29
- 3 Homo sapiens: Francis Galton's fairground attraction 61
- 4 Hieracium auricula: What Mendel did next 95
- 5 Oenothera lamarckiana: Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path 128
- 6 Drosophila melanogaster: Bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks 170
- 7 Cavia porcellus: Mathematical guinea pigs 209
- 8 Bacteriophage: The virus that revealed DNA 251
- 9 Zea mays: Incorrigible corn 292
- 10 Arabidopsis thaliana: A fruit fly for the botanists 334
- 11 Danio rerio: Seeing through zebrafish 373
- 12 OncoMouse: Engineering organisms 411
- Bibliography, sources and notes 433.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-481) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674027138
- 0674027132
- OCLC:
- 132681500
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