Concepts of Genetics / Edition 10|Hardcover

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ISBN-13:	9780321724120
Publisher:	Benjamin Cummings
Publication date:	10/11/2011
Pages:	896
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

William S. Klug is currently Professor of Biology at the College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) in Ewing, New Jersey. He served as chair of the Biology Department for 17 years, a position to which he was first elected in 1974. He received his B.A. degree in Biology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to coming to the College of New Jersey, he was on the faculty of Wabash College as an Assistant Professor. His research interests have involved ultrastructural and molecular genetic studies of oogenesis in Drosophila. He has taught the genetics course as well as the senior capstone seminar course in human and molecular genetics to undergraduate biology majors for each of the last 35 years. In 2002, he was the recipient of the initial teaching award given at the College of New Jersey granted to the faculty member who most challenges students to achieve high standards. He also received the 2004 Outstanding Professor Award from the Sigma Pi International, and in the same year, he was nominated as the Educator of the Year, an award given by the Research and Development Council of New Jersey.

Michael R. Cummings is currently Research Professor in the Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. For more than 25 years, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences and in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also served on the faculties of Northwestern University and Florida State University. He received his B.A. from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to Concepts of Genetics and its companion volumes, he has also written textbooks in human genetics and general biology for nonmajors. His research interests center on the molecular organization and physical mapping of the heterochromatic regions of human acrocentric chromosomes. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses in Mendelian and molecular genetics, human genetics, and general biology, and has received numerous awards for teaching excellence given by university faculty, student organizations and graduating seniors.

Charlotte A. Spencer is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has also served as a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta. She received her B.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of British Columbia and he Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Alberta, followed by postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. Her research interests involve the regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription in cancer cells, cells infected with DNA viruses and cells transversing the mitotic phase of the cell cycle. She has taught courses in Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology and Oncology, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has contributed Genetics, Technology and Society essays for several editions of Concepts of Genetics as well as Essentials of Genetics. In addition, she has written booklets in the Exploring Biology series, which are aimed at the undergraduate nonmajors level.

Michael A. Palladino is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He received his B.S. degree in Biology from Trenton State College (now known as The College of New Jersey) and his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of Virginia. He directs an active laboratory of undergraduate student researchers studying molecular mechanisms involved in innate immunity of mammalian male reproductive organs and genes involved in oxygen homeostasis and ischemic injury of the testis. He has taught a wide range of courses for both majors and nonmajors and currently teaches genetics, biotechnology, endocrinology, and laboratory in cell and molecular biology. He has received several awards for research and teaching, including the New Investigator Award of the American Society of Andrology, the 2005 Distinguished Teacher Award from Monmouth University, and the 2005 Caring Heart Award from the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research. He is co-author of the undergraduate textbook Introduction to Biotechnology, Series Editor for the Benjamin Cummings Special Topics in Biology booklet series, and author of the first booklet in the series, Understanding the Human Genome Project.

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PREFACE:

Preface

Concepts of Genetics is now completing its second decade of providing support to students as they study one of the most fascinating scientific disciplines. Certainly no subject area has had a more sustained impact on shaping our knowledge of the living condition. As a result of discoveries over the past 50 years, we now understand with reasonable clarity the underlying genetic mechanisms that explain how organisms develop into and then function as adults. We also better understand the basis of biological diversity and have greater insight into the evolutionary process.

Advances in genetic technology are now having a profound impact on our knowledge of human genetics. More than any other event, the launching of the Human Genome Project in 1990 symbolizes our commitment to the pursuit of such knowledge. As we enter the twentyfirst century, the application of genetics to the betterment of the human condition will become commonplace. While this era will be filled with the excitement of scientific discovery, many accompanying problems and controversies will also face us. Of these, how we utilize our knowledge of the nucleotide sequence of the human genome promises to be the most significant. This growing body of information has already generated many legal and ethical issues. Currently, the implications of genetic testing and gene therapy are becoming important societal concerns.

As geneticists and students of genetics, the thrill of being part of this era must be balanced by a strong sense of responsibility and careful attention to the many related issues that will undoubtedly arise. The formulation of proper laws and policies will depend ona comprehensive knowledge of genetics and measured responses to these issues. As a result, here has never been a higher premium or greater need for a useful and up-to-date genetics textbook.

The sixth edition of Concepts of Genetics, as with all past efforts, has been designed to achieve five major goals:

To establish a conceptual framework that represents a sound approach to learning and facilitates the comprehension of the vast amount of information constituting the field of genetics.
To emphasize the rich history of scientific discovery and analytical thought, so prevalent in genetics, that provides an opportunity for students to hone their problemsolving abilities and to explore how we know what we know.
To cover material with a clear, crisp organizational format, both within each chapter and throughout the chapter sequence, to facilitate effective use of the text.
To present carefully designed figures with strong pedagogic value that teach rather than merely illustrate complex topics and analytical experiments.
To provide students with clearly written, straightforward explanations that elucidate difficult, complex topics without oversimplifying presentations.

Writing a textbook that achieves these goals and having the opportunity to continually improve on each effort has been a labor of love for us. The creation of each of the six editions is a reflection not only of our passion for teaching genetics, but the constructive feedback and encouragement provided over the past two decades from adopters, reviewers, and our students.

FEATURES OF THIS EDITION

New Conceptual Headings

The organization of each chapter has been revised to include conceptual headings that initiate the discussion of all major topics. These are presented using the narrative style. Collectively, these are presented at the onset of each chapter in a section entitled Key Concepts. This organizational feature reinforces our emphasis on conceptual issues in genetics. This is in keeping not only with the title of this textbook, but with our ardent belief that learning depends on the understanding of concepts, which are not easily forgotten, in contrast with countless details that may be memorized but not always retained. We believe that this new approach to the organization of each chapter will pay substantial dividends in improving the pedagogic value of Concepts of Genetics.

New Organization of the Table of Contents

As the field of genetics has expanded, many topics have taken on greater importance and stature within the discipline. Once again, as with previous editions, this has necessitated substantial reorganization, which is apparent in the Table of Contents. This edition continues to reflect our belief that coverage of the more classical studies of genetics, which we refer to as Heredity and the Phenotype, should initiate the text as Part I At the urging of many reviewers, we have included coverage of bacterial and phage genetics, as well as extranuclear inheritance in this section. Additionally, this initial part of the text now includes a new chapter, Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes (Chapter 9). Part I then concludes with the chapter on Chromosome Mutations.

Part 11, entitled The Molecular Basis of Inheritance, includes a group of chapters that center around the storage, expression, and regulation of genetic information. These topics collectively form what is classically thought of as molecular genetics. While we have decided to keep many DNA-related topics in Part 11, those who wish to begin their courses at this point in the text should not have difficulty doing so. Because the chapters have been written to be independent of the information presented in Part 1, many adopters have used this approach successfully in previous editions.

With the strong foundation of DNA structure and function in hand, Part III includes four chapters that address the newest area of study in genetics, entitled Genomics. This section opens with coverage of how DNA clones are constructed and analyzed, and follows with chapters that address how DNA sequences and genes are organized within chromosomes. Part III concludes with the consideration of the applications and ethics of genetic technology. Obviously, Part III represents the "cutting edge" of genetics and contains the most exciting, far-reaching findings in this field.

We conclude the text by returning to the consideration of organisms and populations in Part IV. Initial chapters in this section address the role of genetic information in development, cancer, and behavior. We conclude our coverage with a consideration of the genetics of populations and the role of genetics in the process of evolution.

While we realize that no Table of Contents in a diverse field such as genetics can satisfy everyone, the present organization can be used in all first courses in undergraduate genetics, whether offered in a semester, quarter, or two-quarter format. The Parts and Chapters within the text are written so as to be used interchangeably, providing flexibility for the instructor.

Revised Art Program

In this edition, we have substantially refined the entire art program. Every figure has been scrutinized, and most have been either redrawn or revised. A number of the most complex figures have been more carefully and closely linked to their accompanying discussion. In conjunction with many new striking photographs, the text provides an attractive and pedagogically superior illustration program to enhance and support discussions of every major topic.

As in past editions, our goal has been to create figures that facilitate learning. In many cases, "flowchart" figures have been developed to illustrate complex experimental approaches or genetic processes that are significant to our understanding of genetics.

Revisions and Modernization

The entire text has been revised with an eye to providing clarity and coverage of the latest cutting-edge topics in genetics. One of the most significant paradigms in genetic investigation involves the utilization of DNA cloning technology to study many areas of biology. In this edition, this trend is reflected particularly in the revision and modernization of the information presented in Part III—Genomics. For example, Chapter 20—Organization of Genes in Chromosomes, is a new chapter that includes the most recent findings involving our understanding of genomic organization in a wide range of organisms.

While many areas of genetics have been enhanced by the ability to clone and analyze DNA, human genetics has benefited more than any other field. The expansion of knowledge about our own species represents a second major trend in genetics. As a result, we have increased our coverage of human genetics throughout the text. This is particularly evident in two chapters, Applications and Ethics of Genetic Technology (Chapter 2 1) and Genetics and Cancer (Chapter 2 3), both of which heavily emphasize human genetics. These chapters convey some of the vast amount of information provided by the Human Genome Project. Two other chapters important to the understanding of genetics have been revised substantially: Population Genetics (Chapter 25) and Genetics and Evolution (Chapter 26). The revisions reflect recent progress in these fields, as well as the influence of molecular genetics on these disciplines. This effort is in keeping with the important role population and evolutionary biology plays in the study of biology.

New Essays

In keeping with the influence of genetics on our everyday lives, we have revised and expanded the essays entitled Genetics, Technology, and Society, which appear near the end of most chapters. A number of these are new to this edition, including "Genetics and Society at the Millenium" in Chapter 1 and "Gene Pools and Endangered Species" in Chapter 25. These essays, which contain accompanying references, can readily serve as the basis of class discussions in genetics courses.

New Media Resources

Concepts of Genetics takes a significant step forward with the integration of interactive media resources into the text. This is done through the GenCDX Student CDROM, the textspecific companion website (http-J/www.pr-enhaU.com/klug), and the "Genetics MediaLab" sections at the end of most of the chapters. The integration of these resources provides both instructors and students with new learning tools to help explain difficult concepts, and to explore the applications and implications of genetics in a broader context.

The GenCDX Student CD-ROM, designed specifically for this edition, contains over two dozen animations and tutorials, and is the starting point for the web problems in the Genetics MediaLabs. These animations and tutorials are taken directly from the text's art program and cover a wide range of topics, including Mendelian inheritance, gene mutation, transcription, translation, gene cloning and population genetics. The tutorials consist of an introduction, followed by an animation with accompanying text, self-test questions and a conclusion. Each is followed by a set of related questions with hints and explanations accompanying each answer. Icons placed in selected text figures link the tutorials to concepts in the book. The GenCDX Student CD-ROM also contains a set of selfgrading chapter problems, "Genetics, Technology and Society" exercises, Chapter Search Terms, a Student Bulletin Board and other resources.

The Companion Website for the text provides access to the websites for the MediaLab investigations, linked web destinations in genetics, links to genetics newsgroups, web navigation tips, additional self-grading problems, and other resources.

The "Genetics MediaLab" section at the end of each chapter contains a list of chapter-specific resources available on the GenCDX Student CD-ROM and the companion website. This section also contains several interactive web-linked problems designed to enhance the topics presented in the chapter. To complete these problems, students must actively participate in exercises such as virtual experiments in Drosophila genetics, bacterial conjugation and the nature of human genetic disorders. Each of these problems has been selected and screened for pedagogical value by genetics instructors. For reference, the estimated time required to solve the problem is noted at the beginning of the exercise.

Coupled to the book, these media resources provide a powerful tool for teaching and learning genetics. It is our hope that both students and instructors will explore these resources and make them an integral part of a genetics course.

Preface

PREFACE:

Preface

Concepts of Genetics is now completing its second decade of providing support to students as they study one of the most fascinating scientific disciplines. Certainly no subject area has had a more sustained impact on shaping our knowledge of the living condition. As a result of discoveries over the past 50 years, we now understand with reasonable clarity the underlying genetic mechanisms that explain how organisms develop into and then function as adults. We also better understand the basis of biological diversity and have greater insight into the evolutionary process.

Advances in genetic technology are now having a profound impact on our knowledge of human genetics. More than any other event, the launching of the Human Genome Project in 1990 symbolizes our commitment to the pursuit of such knowledge. As we enter the twentyfirst century, the application of genetics to the betterment of the human condition will become commonplace. While this era will be filled with the excitement of scientific discovery, many accompanying problems and controversies will also face us. Of these, how we utilize our knowledge of the nucleotide sequence of the human genome promises to be the most significant. This growing body of information has already generated many legal and ethical issues. Currently, the implications of genetic testing and gene therapy are becoming important societal concerns.

As geneticists and students of genetics, the thrill of being part of this era must be balanced by a strong sense of responsibility and careful attention to the many related issues that will undoubtedly arise. The formulation of proper laws and policies will dependona comprehensive knowledge of genetics and measured responses to these issues. As a result, here has never been a higher premium or greater need for a useful and up-to-date genetics textbook.

The sixth edition of Concepts of Genetics, as with all past efforts, has been designed to achieve five major goals:

To establish a conceptual framework that represents a sound approach to learning and facilitates the comprehension of the vast amount of information constituting the field of genetics.
To emphasize the rich history of scientific discovery and analytical thought, so prevalent in genetics, that provides an opportunity for students to hone their problemsolving abilities and to explore how we know what we know.
To cover material with a clear, crisp organizational format, both within each chapter and throughout the chapter sequence, to facilitate effective use of the text.
To present carefully designed figures with strong pedagogic value that teach rather than merely illustrate complex topics and analytical experiments.
To provide students with clearly written, straightforward explanations that elucidate difficult, complex topics without oversimplifying presentations.

Writing a textbook that achieves these goals and having the opportunity to continually improve on each effort has been a labor of love for us. The creation of each of the six editions is a reflection not only of our passion for teaching genetics, but the constructive feedback and encouragement provided over the past two decades from adopters, reviewers, and our students.

FEATURES OF THIS EDITION

New Conceptual Headings

The organization of each chapter has been revised to include conceptual headings that initiate the discussion of all major topics. These are presented using the narrative style. Collectively, these are presented at the onset of each chapter in a section entitled Key Concepts. This organizational feature reinforces our emphasis on conceptual issues in genetics. This is in keeping not only with the title of this textbook, but with our ardent belief that learning depends on the understanding of concepts, which are not easily forgotten, in contrast with countless details that may be memorized but not always retained. We believe that this new approach to the organization of each chapter will pay substantial dividends in improving the pedagogic value of Concepts of Genetics.

New Organization of the Table of Contents

As the field of genetics has expanded, many topics have taken on greater importance and stature within the discipline. Once again, as with previous editions, this has necessitated substantial reorganization, which is apparent in the Table of Contents. This edition continues to reflect our belief that coverage of the more classical studies of genetics, which we refer to as Heredity and the Phenotype, should initiate the text as Part I At the urging of many reviewers, we have included coverage of bacterial and phage genetics, as well as extranuclear inheritance in this section. Additionally, this initial part of the text now includes a new chapter, Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes (Chapter 9). Part I then concludes with the chapter on Chromosome Mutations.

Part 11, entitled The Molecular Basis of Inheritance, includes a group of chapters that center around the storage, expression, and regulation of genetic information. These topics collectively form what is classically thought of as molecular genetics. While we have decided to keep many DNA-related topics in Part 11, those who wish to begin their courses at this point in the text should not have difficulty doing so. Because the chapters have been written to be independent of the information presented in Part 1, many adopters have used this approach successfully in previous editions.

With the strong foundation of DNA structure and function in hand, Part III includes four chapters that address the newest area of study in genetics, entitled Genomics. This section opens with coverage of how DNA clones are constructed and analyzed, and follows with chapters that address how DNA sequences and genes are organized within chromosomes. Part III concludes with the consideration of the applications and ethics of genetic technology. Obviously, Part III represents the "cutting edge" of genetics and contains the most exciting, far-reaching findings in this field.

We conclude the text by returning to the consideration of organisms and populations in Part IV. Initial chapters in this section address the role of genetic information in development, cancer, and behavior. We conclude our coverage with a consideration of the genetics of populations and the role of genetics in the process of evolution.

While we realize that no Table of Contents in a diverse field such as genetics can satisfy everyone, the present organization can be used in all first courses in undergraduate genetics, whether offered in a semester, quarter, or two-quarter format. The Parts and Chapters within the text are written so as to be used interchangeably, providing flexibility for the instructor.

Revised Art Program

In this edition, we have substantially refined the entire art program. Every figure has been scrutinized, and most have been either redrawn or revised. A number of the most complex figures have been more carefully and closely linked to their accompanying discussion. In conjunction with many new striking photographs, the text provides an attractive and pedagogically superior illustration program to enhance and support discussions of every major topic.

As in past editions, our goal has been to create figures that facilitate learning. In many cases, "flowchart" figures have been developed to illustrate complex experimental approaches or genetic processes that are significant to our understanding of genetics.

Revisions and Modernization

The entire text has been revised with an eye to providing clarity and coverage of the latest cutting-edge topics in genetics. One of the most significant paradigms in genetic investigation involves the utilization of DNA cloning technology to study many areas of biology. In this edition, this trend is reflected particularly in the revision and modernization of the information presented in Part III—Genomics. For example, Chapter 20—Organization of Genes in Chromosomes, is a new chapter that includes the most recent findings involving our understanding of genomic organization in a wide range of organisms.

While many areas of genetics have been enhanced by the ability to clone and analyze DNA, human genetics has benefited more than any other field. The expansion of knowledge about our own species represents a second major trend in genetics. As a result, we have increased our coverage of human genetics throughout the text. This is particularly evident in two chapters, Applications and Ethics of Genetic Technology (Chapter 2 1) and Genetics and Cancer (Chapter 2 3), both of which heavily emphasize human genetics. These chapters convey some of the vast amount of information provided by the Human Genome Project. Two other chapters important to the understanding of genetics have been revised substantially: Population Genetics (Chapter 25) and Genetics and Evolution (Chapter 26). The revisions reflect recent progress in these fields, as well as the influence of molecular genetics on these disciplines. This effort is in keeping with the important role population and evolutionary biology plays in the study of biology.

New Essays

In keeping with the influence of genetics on our everyday lives, we have revised and expanded the essays entitled Genetics, Technology, and Society, which appear near the end of most chapters. A number of these are new to this edition, including "Genetics and Society at the Millenium" in Chapter 1 and "Gene Pools and Endangered Species" in Chapter 25. These essays, which contain accompanying references, can readily serve as the basis of class discussions in genetics courses.

New Media Resources

Concepts of Genetics takes a significant step forward with the integration of interactive media resources into the text. This is done through the GenCDX Student CDROM, the textspecific companion website (http-J/www.pr-enhaU.com/klug), and the "Genetics MediaLab" sections at the end of most of the chapters. The integration of these resources provides both instructors and students with new learning tools to help explain difficult concepts, and to explore the applications and implications of genetics in a broader context.

The GenCDX Student CD-ROM, designed specifically for this edition, contains over two dozen animations and tutorials, and is the starting point for the web problems in the Genetics MediaLabs. These animations and tutorials are taken directly from the text's art program and cover a wide range of topics, including Mendelian inheritance, gene mutation, transcription, translation, gene cloning and population genetics. The tutorials consist of an introduction, followed by an animation with accompanying text, self-test questions and a conclusion. Each is followed by a set of related questions with hints and explanations accompanying each answer. Icons placed in selected text figures link the tutorials to concepts in the book. The GenCDX Student CD-ROM also contains a set of selfgrading chapter problems, "Genetics, Technology and Society" exercises, Chapter Search Terms, a Student Bulletin Board and other resources.

The Companion Website for the text provides access to the websites for the MediaLab investigations, linked web destinations in genetics, links to genetics newsgroups, web navigation tips, additional self-grading problems, and other resources.

The "Genetics MediaLab" section at the end of each chapter contains a list of chapter-specific resources available on the GenCDX Student CD-ROM and the companion website. This section also contains several interactive web-linked problems designed to enhance the topics presented in the chapter. To complete these problems, students must actively participate in exercises such as virtual experiments in Drosophila genetics, bacterial conjugation and the nature of human genetic disorders. Each of these problems has been selected and screened for pedagogical value by genetics instructors. For reference, the estimated time required to solve the problem is noted at the beginning of the exercise.

Coupled to the book, these media resources provide a powerful tool for teaching and learning genetics. It is our hope that both students and instructors will explore these resources and make them an integral part of a genetics course.

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