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An edition of Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters (1999)

Genome

the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

1st U.S. ed.

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The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out in a billion three-letter words using the four-letter alphabet of DNA, the genome has been edited, abridged, altered and added to as it has been handed down, generation to generation, over more than three billion years. With the first draft of the human genome due to be published in 2000, we, this lucky generation, are the first beings who are able to read this extraordinary book and to gain hitherto unimaginable insights into what it means to be alive, to be human, to be conscious or to be ill.

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HarperCollins
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English
Pages
344

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Subjects

Human genetics Human genome Inborn Genetic Diseases Medical genetics Popular works DNA Génome humain Génétique humaine Onderzoek Ouvrages de vulgarisation Human Genome Project Genomes

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Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters
2006, Harper Perennial
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Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters
1999, HarperCollins
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-336) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
QH431 .R475 1999, QH431.R475 1999, QH 431 R475 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
344 p. ;
Number of pages
344

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23244344M
Internet Archive
genomeautobiogra00ridl_212
ISBN 10
0060194979, 0060932902
LCCN
99040933
OCLC/WorldCat
41977285
LibraryThing
28484
Goodreads
436950
1120025

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Work ID
OL2078897W

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Work Description

OCLC 70175575

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In the beginning was the word.
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