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Ladataan... When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish (2006)Tekijä: Lisa Seachrist Chiu
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. An interesting enough look at human genetic problems, marred by unclear writing and poor editing. This is problematic in a technical discussion. Errors range from a sometimes-random distribution of commas to actually switching elements in a protein's name (fore example, writing "MeC2P" when "MeCP2" is correct) to leaving out words. In addition to these technical flaws, the author does a poor job of transitions between paragraphs and of associating each new section of content to a chapter theme. Her apparent lack of understanding of how to organize a paragraph further complicates matters. The effect is of discontinuous segments strung together. I'm sure I could make a chromosome joke about this if I were willing to work harder. The author slides into jargon in the later chapters, where these errors are also more frequent. Thus, I recommend the earlier chapters but not the latter. This is disappointing because topics she addresses are interesting. Ultimately, however, other authors express themselves better. This book is very confused about its place in the world. The author uses overly complicated and jargon-y examples to explain the basic premises and theories of genetics. If you're not familiar with genetics, it will be very difficult to understand the examples provided. If you are very familiar with genetics (like me), you already know the basic themes of the book, and don't need the examples. However, you'll still probably find them hard to understand, even if you've studied them before. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the ""bitter gene"" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our survival. Lisa Seachrist Chiu has a smorgasbord of stories to tell about rare and not so rare genetic quirks. We read about the Dracula Gene, a mutation in zebra fish that causes blood cells to explode on contact with light, and suites of genes that also influe Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Overall, a slim volume with lots of interesting things packed in, but not in the top rank of popular science to keep and pass on to others. ( )