Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes [With Access Code]

This book is written by two Harvard professors for their introductory life sciences course. I had to take this course because it's a requirement, and I'm annoyed that they assigned such an expensive, self-written textbook. Personal annoyance aside, however, I have to say that this is a well-written textbook. I'm not so sure it's worth the steep price, but the writing is clear, the diagrams are helpful, and it really assisted me in understanding and clarifying fundamental biological concepts. I can't say this for most of the textbooks I've used. (The textbook was certainly a lot clearer than the lecture, unfortunately.) Given that textbooks in general cost a fortune, I wouldn't consider this a bad investment.

GOOD PICTURE REPRESENTATION WITH EXCELLENT NOTES AND LOTS OF EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT GENE AND GENOMES . PROBLEMS HAVE SOME ERRORS ITS LITTLE CONFUSING BUT OVERALL A FABALOUS TEXT BOOK OF GENETICS. GOOD FOR STANDARD EXAM PREPARATIONS AND ALSO FOR UNDERGRAD/GRAD STUDENTS . ALL THE BEST CHECK FOR FOR MINNOR ERRORS IN THE TEXT .... TAKE THE BEST OUT OF IT .....

Unfortunately I sold this book during undergrad once my genetics course was over. Now at Medical School, I am rebuying it cause I know it works. Good explanations, pictures, ect. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a straight explanation...it's great if you are not a research based person.

Genetics is confusing. True or false? Genetics is quite enjoyable. True or false?The answer can be true to either question, depending on which book you use to learn genetics for the first time. Fortunately for me, our Biology department @BU chose Prof. Hartl's "Genetics." The book comes with nice diagrams to demonstrate certain concepts such as maternal effect and the Hardy Weinberg principle.Of course, this book isn't perfect; it could use some improvements. Chapter 12--especially the section on bicoid genes in drosophila--took a while to slog through. I suppose Prof. Hartl tried his best here, but this topic is confusing to begin with. It would have helped if pg 530-541 were rewritten. (I know that sounds very vague and fuzzy, but something about those pages just didn't click like other sections of the book).Even if your Bio department doesn't use this version of "Genetics," I would recommend treating it as a reference book. Good luck with genetics! Believe me, it CAN be fun and interesting....-TheDelimanps: To be honest, the GeNETics sections at the end of each chapter were quite useless. Readers won't read much if they were written out of the Fifth Edition.... :)