Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications (Audiobook)

Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications (Audiobook) By David Sadava
Publisher: The Tea ching Com pany 2008 | 11 hours and 58 mins | ISBN: 1598033948 | MP3 | 220 MB
We use it routinely to cure diseases, solve crimes, and reunite families. Yet we've known about it for only 60 years. And what we're continuing to learn about it every day has the potential to transform our health, our nutrition, our society, and our future. What is this powerful mystery?

It is DNA?deoxyribonucleic acid, the self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms. Award-winning teacher, author, and cancer researcher Dr. David Sadava unlocks its mysteries in his new course, Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications. He guides us through decades of scientific discovery and the weighty implications for us, as individuals and as a society.

Genetics: The Science of Heredity

How are the traits of an organism?be it a fern or a human father?passed on to its offspring? This course outlines the history of the science of genetics and explains in detail what we have learned in recent decades about the building blocks?DNA.

Dr. Sadava, a working scientist who draws on examples from his own research, shows us how understanding genetics allows us to improve medical treatment and nutrition, vastly improving our health and quality of life.

Understanding genetics is also a critical step toward understanding our human identity. Examining our DNA?how it works and what happens when something goes wrong?enables us to see the roots of how our bodies work, why we get sick, and how traits are passed through families.

Enjoy this rare opportunity to peer over the shoulder of a working scientist; learn how he puzzles through the problems of genetics to find meaningful solutions that can save lives. Dr. Sadava shares cutting-edge research guided by his passion to help laypeople understand the meaning and importance of genetics.

Course Lecture Titles

* 1. Our Inheritance
* 2. Mendel and Genes
* 3. Genes and Chromosomes
* 4. The Search for the Gene?DNA
* 5. DNA Structure and Replication
* 6. DNA Expression in Proteins
* 7. Genes, Enzymes, and Metabolism
* 8. From DNA to Protein
* 9. Genomes
* 10. Manipulating Genes?Recombinant DNA
* 11. Isolating Genes and DNA
* 12. Biotechnology?Genetic Engineering
* 13. Biotechnology and the Environment
* 14. Manipulating DNA by PCR and Other Methods
* 15. DNA in Identification?Forensics
* 16. DNA and Evolution
* 17. DNA and Human Evolution
* 18. Molecular Medicine?Genetic Screening
* 19. Molecular Medicine?The Immune System
* 20. Molecular Medicine?Cancer
* 21. Molecular Medicine?Gene Therapy
* 22. Molecular Medicine?Cloning and Stem Cells
* 23. Genetics and Agriculture
* 24. Biotechnology and Agriculture
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