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Overview
Route Maps in Gene Technology is an exciting new introductory textbook for first-year undergraduates in molecular biology and molecular genetics. The subject is broken down into 140 to 150 key concepts or topics, each of which is dealt with in one doublepaged spread. These range from basic introductory principles to applied topics at the cutting edge of research. A control strip along the top of the page shows the student which pages need to have been read beforehand and which topics may be followed afterward. In addition, at the front of the book are a selection of 'routes,' which the student or teacher may choose in order to study a particular topic. Because courses have become more 'modular' and many students arrive at college with little or no biology background, this approach enables teachers and students to structure a course of study to best suit their disparate exposure to biology.- An exciting new concept in textbook design, allowing unparalleled flexibility on the part of the student and the teacher
- Covers the full range of modern molecular biology, from basic principles to the latest applications
- Attractive, clear and simple presentation with copious two-colour illustrations
Synopsis
Gene-based techniques have revolutionized our understanding of biology and had a direct impact on many aspects of our lives, from clinical medicine to agriculture. Route Maps takes a fresh look at this pivotal and exciting subject, within the larger context of molecular biology as a whole.
Rather than follow a traditional ‘narrative’, Route Maps employs an innovative structure, made up of discrete units that allow the reader to choose from any number of pathways in discovering the concepts of molecular biology, the principles of a recombinant DNA technology and its key methods.
Route Maps is written primarily as an introductory text for undergraduate and graduate students in all areas of the life sciences, for medical students, for qualified clinicians and indeed for anyone interested in learning about recombinant DNA technologies and their applications. It is also a valuable revision guide for students who have taken a course in molecular biology.
Roger W. Melvold
This book takes a novel approach to the various techniques involved in genetic analysis, especially those of molecular biology. Rather than providing an in-depth account of how to perform the various techniques, the authors present a series of 100 chapters, each devoted to a particular technique or application. Each chapter is short, 2 or 4 pages in length, and describes the basic questions the techniques are designed to answer, the basic principles involved, and what other techniques or applications are pertinent. The intent is to provide ""overlapping"" introductions to recombinant genetic techniques. The intended audience includes students, undergraduate, graduate, and medical, some clinicians, and others wishing a better understanding of genetic technology. Each chapter includes an introduction; a ""summary box"" covering key contents; a ""compass box"" describing the interrelationships with other chapters and other pertinent information; a ""biblio box"" providing a short listing of pertinent original, reference, and books for further reading; and a set of ""route prompts"" directing the reader to other chapters covering techniques or applications that may precede or follow (or perhaps parallel) the one to which that particular chapter is devoted. Thus, a reader could acquaint himself or herself with a specific series of techniques to understand how they fit together in some particular set of experiments that are of interest. On the other hand, it could be used in a less targeted way to start to become familiar with the array of possible ways that various techniques could be combined for some particular future use. The chapters have brief, but well designed and executedblack-and-white/gray drawings to present the basic principles of the technique or application. This text would be useful in a number of contexts: as an adjunct text to a more classical molecular biology text, as a general laboratory reference by which students could acquaint themselves with the possibilities and rationales for analysis or design of experiments, or for others who might wish to begin to acquaint themselves with the often bewildering array of technologies in current use.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Roger W. Melvold, PhD(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)Description: This book takes a novel approach to the various techniques involved in genetic analysis, especially those of molecular biology. Rather than providing an in-depth account of how to perform the various techniques, the authors present a series of 100 chapters, each devoted to a particular technique or application. Each chapter is short, 2 or 4 pages in length, and describes the basic questions the techniques are designed to answer, the basic principles involved, and what other techniques or applications are pertinent.
Purpose: The intent is to provide "overlapping" introductions to recombinant genetic techniques.
Audience: The intended audience includes students, undergraduate, graduate, and medical, some clinicians, and others wishing a better understanding of genetic technology.
Features: Each chapter includes an introduction; a "summary box" covering key contents; a "compass box" describing the interrelationships with other chapters and other pertinent information; a "biblio box" providing a short listing of pertinent original, reference, and books for further reading; and a set of "route prompts" directing the reader to other chapters covering techniques or applications that may precede or follow (or perhaps parallel) the one to which that particular chapter is devoted. Thus, a reader could acquaint himself or herself with a specific series of techniques to understand how they fit together in some particular set of experiments that are of interest. On the other hand, it could be used in a less targeted way to start to become familiar with the array of possible ways that various techniques could be combined for some particular future use. The chapters have brief, but well designed and executed black-and-white/gray drawings to present the basic principles of the technique or application.
Assessment: This text would be useful in a number of contexts: as an adjunct text to a more classical molecular biology text, as a general laboratory reference by which students could acquaint themselves with the possibilities and rationales for analysis or design of experiments, or for others who might wish to begin to acquaint themselves with the often bewildering array of technologies in current use.