Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

by Matthew Cobb

Book Overview

Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets. Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule to give rise to the life that exists all around us. This great scientific breakthrough has had farreaching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465062679
• ISBN13: 9780465062676
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"