9780300110784-0300110782-Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics

Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics

ISBN-13: 9780300110784
ISBN-10: 0300110782
Edition: 1
Author: William C. Summers, Frederic Lawrence Holmes
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300110784
ISBN-10: 0300110782
Edition: 1
Author: William C. Summers, Frederic Lawrence Holmes
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics (ISBN-13: 9780300110784 and ISBN-10: 0300110782), written by authors William C. Summers, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, was published by Yale University Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Biology (Biological Sciences, Genetics, Evolution) books. You can easily purchase or rent Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Biology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.62.

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This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer’s accomplishments are widely recognized as a tipping point in mid-twentieth-century molecular biology when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. More often than any other individual, he is considered to have led geneticists from the classical gene into the molecular age.

Drawing on Benzer’s remarkably complete record of his experiments, his correspondence, and published sources, this book reconstructs how the former physicist initiated his work in phage biology and achieved his landmark investigation. The account of Benzer’s creativity as a researcher is a fascinating story that also reveals intriguing aspects common to the scientific enterprise.

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