Human genetics : concepts and applications /
Ricki Lewis
- ninth edition.
- New York : McGraw Hill Education, c2010
- xxiv, 446 pages ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
About the Author -- Preface -- The Human Touch -- Applying Human Genetics -- The Lewis Guided Learning System -- PART 1 Introduction -- PART 2 Transmission Genetics -- PART 3 DNA and Chromosomes -- PART 4 Population Genetics -- PART 5 Immunity and Cancer -- PART 6 Genetic Technology -- Glossary -- Index.
Explains what genes are, how they function, how they interact with the environment, and how our understanding of genetics has changed since completion of the human genome project.