A History of Molecular Biology
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/2000
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A History of Molecular Biology is a complete but compact account of the history of molecular biology. Michel Morange, himself a molecular biologist, takes us from the turn-of-the-century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene splicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s. Drawing on the important work of American, English, and French historians of science, Morange describes the major discoveries -- the double helix, messenger RNA, oncogenes, DNA polymerase -- but also explains how and why these breakthroughs took place.
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