A History of Molecular Biology by Michel Morange

A History of Molecular Biology by Michel Morange

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Complete but compact account of the history of the revolution within molecular biology. The author takes us from the beginning of the 20th century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene slicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s.

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A History of Molecular Biology by Michel Morange

This text is a complete but compact account for a general readership of the history of the revolution within molecular biology. The author takes us from the beginning of the 20th century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene slicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s. Drawing on the work of American, English, and French historians of science, Michel Morange describes the major discoveries - the double helix, messenger RNA, oncogenes, DNA polymerase - but also explains how and why these breakthroughs took place. The text contains mini-biographies of the founders of molecular biology: Delbruck, Watson and Crick, Monod and Jacob and Nirenberg.
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ISBN 13 9780674398559
ISBN 10 0674398556
Title A History of Molecular Biology
Author Michel Morange
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Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 1998-07-15
Number of pages 342
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