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Genom
Genome

Matt Ridley
(2000)
Egmond Richter AB, Malmö.
ISBN:

Recension
Att X-och Y-kromosomerna är könsbestämmande är gammal kunskap, men hypotesen att de kan locka till sig andra för det egna könet gynnsamma gener och bekämpas av gener av motsatt kön, s.k. sexuell antagonism, var för oss ny kunskap. Matt Ridleys bok handlar om människans kromosomer...

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The Sequence Genome

Kevin Davies
(2002) Orion, London (Updated edition)
ISBN: 0753813165 (Paperback, 230 pages)

In the 1970s, the plant physiologist Witham Fogg suggested that all plant physiology texts should be printed as disposable paperbacks, so that they could be thrown away once their contents were superseded by more recent findings. That advice could be applied to most books about the human genome, although unusually it doesn't apply to this one.

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Genome

GATTACA

Andrew Niccol, Director
(1997) Columbia Tristar Home video.
DVD Video (English and German soudtrack with subtitles in English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek and Norwegian)
Regions: 2. Running time: 102 minutes.

GATTACA is set in a future where there are two classes of people: 'Valids', whose parents have selected their genetic attributes before birth, and the lower-status 'In-valids' who are the result of natural conception. Even more despised are those with 'borrowed ladders' - individuals who masquerade as others by buying samples of their DNA.

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