The Implicit Genome

by Lynn Helena Caporale

Book Overview

For over half a century, we have been in the thrall of the double-helicaln structure of DNA, which, in an instant, revealed that information can be transferred between generations by a simple rule, A pairs with T, G pairs with C. In its beautiful simplicity, this structure, along with the table of codons worked out in the following decade, had entranced us into believing that we can fully understand the information content of a DNA sequence, simply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019517271X
• ISBN13: 9780195172713
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"