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   TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Chapter 1

Who Am I?

What do I look like?

Review Questions

Chapter 2

My Home and My Job

Cell Structure

My Job

What do I do all day?

How do I replicate myself?

What else is happening to my home every day?

Cell Cycle.

How do animals and plants reproduce?

Sexual Reproduction

Asexual Reproduction

Advantage and Disadvantage of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

Review Questions

Discussion

Chapter 3

Heredity

Mendel’s first hypothesis

What is homozygous or heterozygous for a trait?

What do phenotype and genotype mean?

Mendel’s First Law

Mendel’s Second Law

Inherited versus Acquired Traits

Review Questions

Discussion

Chapter 4

Cloning

What is the purpose of cloning me?

In Medicine

Genetic Testing and Screening

Gene Therapy

Antisense Technology

Vaccines

In Agriculture

In Forensic Medicine

Review Questions

Discussion

Chapter 5

In The Laboratory

How is cloning done in the laboratory?

Dolly’s Story

Review Questions

Discussion

Chapter 6

A Mutant!

Selective Breeding

The Human Genome Project

Review Questions

Discussion

Glossary

Bibliography

Recommended web sites on the gene

 

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