Genetics Essentials: Concepts and Connections PDF

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Derived from Benjamin Pierce's popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Genetics Essentials covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in 17 chapters, bypassing advanced topics to focus on what is essential for students new to the genetics field.  Pierce continues his tradition of focusing on the basic concepts of genetics that students need to understand and the connections that lie between them.

 

Like its parent text, Genetics Essentials offers student-friendly features, cutting edge and classical research, and helpful media, with an engaging voice bringing it all together.  There is a greater emphasis on understanding and connecting basic concepts, as well as carefully crafted pedagogy to help develop sure-fire problem-solving skills. The price is student friendly as well--significantly less than similar textbooks for the course.

 

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• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman; First Edition edition (October 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1429230401
• ISBN-13: 978-1429230407
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 10.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Genetics Essentials: Concepts and Connections PDF

I got this as the text for my class. After we got through a couple chapters it became apparent that whoever edited this book down from the full hardcover version was incompetent. I know that sounds like hyperbole but I am being completely serious. The section on viral and bacterial genomes doesn't actually give you the information to solve the problems. That is only the most serious problem. The questions that do not show answers in the back were not proofread well and it was common for them to contain errors that make answering them impossible. Whoever edited the book apparently only checked the answers for the questions that have solutions included in the book. It got so bad that my professor complained to the publisher and they sent down a representative and the full hardcover versions of the book for the whole class to use for the rest of the semester. They will probably fix the problems with this addition but I will be wary of this book and any others by this publisher as a result of this incident.

By Patrick Kunkel

The previous reviewer is absolutely right. I'm having to use this book for my class right now and it's a complete piece of junk. I've never used the hardcover version but this paperback version is worse than useless. Studying the book has actually makes me get worse grades than not studying at all! (As evidenced by taking a quiz w/o studying, going back and reading the chapter then trying the quiz again and getting a *lower* grade)

By Andath