Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Volume I General Principles
• Part 1 Historical Background
• 1 The Mendelian view of the World
• 2 Cells Obey the Laws of Chemistry
• 3 Nucleic Acids Convey Genetic Information
• Part II Chemical Facts and Principles
• 4 A Chemist's Look at the Bacterial Cell
• 5 The Importance of Weak Chemical Interactions
• 6 Coupled Reactions and Group Transfers
• Part III Bacterial Genetics
• 7 The Genetic Systems Provided by E. Coli and Its Viruses
• 8 The Fine Structure of Bacterial and Phase Genes
• Part IV Dna in Detail
• 9 The Structures of DNA
• 10 The Replication of DNA
• 11 Recombination at the Molecular Level
• 12 The Mutability and Repair of DNA
• Part V The Steps in Protein Synthesis
• 13 The Synthesis of RNA upon DNA Templates
• 14 Involvement of RNA in Protein Synthesis
• 15 The Genetic Code
• Part VI Regulation Of Gene Function in Bacterial Cells
• 16 Regulation of Protein Synthesis and Function in Bacteria
• 17 The Replication of Bacterial Viruses
• Part VII Facing Upl To Eukaryotic Cells
• 18 Yeasts as the E. coli of Eukaryotic Cells
• 19 Recombinant DNA at Work
• Part VIII The Functioning Of Eukaryotic Chromosome
• 20 The Unexpected Structures of Eukaryotic Genomes
• 21 The Functioning of Higher Eukaryotic Genes
• Volume II Specialized Aspects
• Part IX Gene Function in Specialized Eukaryotic Systems
• 22 The Molecular Biology of Development
• 23 The Generation of Immunological Specificity
• 24 The Extraordinary Diversity of Eukaryotic viruses
• Part X Cancer at the Genetic Level
• 25 The Control of Cell Proliferation
• 26 The Genetic Basis of Cancer
• 27 The Origins of Human Cancer
• Part XI Evolution of the Gene
• 28 The Origins of Life

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James Dewey Watson James D. Watson was born on April 6, 1928. Watson was an extremely industrious student and entered the University of Chicago when he was only 15. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology four years later, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in the same subject at Indiana University. He was performing research at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, when he first learned of the biomolecular research at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in England. Watson joined Francis Crick in this work in 1951.

At the age of 25, he and colleague Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the double helix. Watson went on to become a Senior Research Fellow in Biology at the California Institute of Technology, before returning to Cambridge in 1955. The following year he moved to Harvard University, where he became Professor of Biology, a post he held until 1976. Watson and Crick won the 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. In 1968, Watson published his account of the DNA discovery, "The Double Helix." The book became an international best-seller.

Watson became the Director and later President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1988 he served as Director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, a massive project to decipher the entire genetic code of the human species. Watson has received many awards and medals for his work, along with the Nobel Prize, he has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

(Bowker Author Biography)