Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future

by Michael Yudell, American Museum of Natural History, Rob DeSalle

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A thrilling "user's guide" to the genomics era Welcome to the genome, the miraculous blueprint of your DNA, coiled tight as a spring in the nucleus of each cell of your body. If unwound, the DNA from just one cell, while only a molecule in width, would stretch six feet in length The information stored in its double helix structure - three billion bits worth - could fill 142 Manhattan phone books. Yet far more amazing than these facts is the impact...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0471453315

ISBN13:9780471453314

Release Date:September 2004

Publisher:Wiley-Liss

Length:215 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.7" x 9.6"

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