As an introductory text on its subject, the book is well written. With copious diagrams that are easy to understand and that illustrate key ideas. A merit of the book is the clarity of the textual exposition, reinforced by those diagrams.
The text is also quite up to date in this fast changing field. With the good coverage of many topics. Including the seminal Polymerase Chain Reaction, that is the basis of so much else. You can see that genomics/biotechnology is now a practical and quantitative science. With plenty remaining to be understood, to be sure. But the book shows that we now have powerful tools to experiment with, to reduce our ignorance.
Author(s): Terry A. Brown
Series: Brown,Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis
Edition: 5
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 405
Front Matter......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Preafce......Page 15
Part 1- The Basic Principles of Gene cloning & DNA Analysis
......Page 21
Chapter 1......Page 22
Chapter 2......Page 34
Chapter 3......Page 48
Chapter 4......Page 74
Chapter 5......Page 107
Chapter 6......Page 127
Chapter 7......Page 152
Chapter 8......Page 178
Chapter 9......Page 203
Part 2- The applications of Gene cloning & DNA Analysis
......Page 218
Chapter 10......Page 219
Chapter 11......Page 240
Chapter 12......Page 272
Part 3- The Applications of Gene cloning and DNA Analysis in Biotechnology
......Page 295
Chapter 13......Page 296
Chapter 14......Page 321
Chapter 15......Page 342
Chapter 16......Page 365
22 Glossary......Page 382
23 Index......Page 398
