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DNA Science: A First Course, Second Edition

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This is the best single source of information on Genetic Science I have run across. Comprehensive from history, to theory, to lab practice. Highly recommended! Great illustrations and very clearly written. Its targeted to people with a serious interest in the field, definitely not for the "Genetic Science for Dummies" crowd.

This was used for my high school semester course "DNA Sci part 1" textbook used with Watson's Recombinant DNA textbook. DNA Science:A 1st Course, 2nd edi was useful in supplementing the updates in recent genetic advances and some newer, better graphic representations. I found this to be an easy textbook to read, although not intended for those without a biology and chemistry background since the book does not waste much ink on describing what should have already been learned. The other students in my class seemed to find this book to be a clear, understandable textbook as well.

A very good first course textbook that keeps a student (or any person) interested. Nice big, clear print as well. The laboratories were the standard same as in the Recombinant DNA textbook.

Excellent Textbook.


This should be the first book that you should read before on to more advanced texts like Molecular Biology of the Gene.

This book goes into wonderful details about DNA and coupling to that are experiments to talk about how those discoveries were made. There are a lot of informations to which the reader must memorize to be a dedicated scientist. If the reader does not have a mature and analytical/reasoning skills, then all the informations will be gibberish. The reader also much have a basic understanding of chemistry and biology to understand the informations. If the reader is in high school and is taking Honor/AP biology then the informations will be clear cut. Some abbreviation are used and will not be told to what it stand for. Ex: the book used "bp" (it does not mean blood pressure), this refers to as "Base Pairs". The book did not provide "Base Pairs" so the reader must be able to reason it out base on the context and how bp was used. Over all comment on this book is IT'S AWESOME!!!!

This is the perfect textbook for a first course in recombinant DNA technology. It covers both theories and laboratory procedures very well.

Students must have finshed high-school biology and chemistry before studying DNA Science. Students can also take DNA Science along with AP/IB biology.

After completing this textbook, university students will find textbooks such as "Molecular Biology of the Gene" and "Molecular Cloning-A Laboratory Manual" very easy.

I was hoping to learn from this book, like what a chromosome is and such, but the book did not cover it. (Though I did not read it, I read the first part of it and got bored, it was about the history of DNA, not so much DNA itself, and then just looked through the rest and didn't like it.) To me it was a rambling mess. The "Small- and large-scale methods for analyzing DNA" doesn't talk about analyzing DNA at all, its really just talking about the history of people analyzing DNA, not how its done. Very disappointing. This is more of a history book than an actual DNA explained book.

When I ordered this textbook, I didn't expect to receive it until the end of January or early February. However, I received it about 4-5 days later even with the standard shipping fee. I couldn't be happier. :)

This book is the best book on the subject on the market. The subject matter is juxtaposed by easy yet informative experiments that can be carried out in a normal scholastic setting. I hear the writers are all hotties.

I havent read much of this yet, we really wont be using much until the second quarter but so far it seems not bad i hope this review is as helpful to you as it would have been for me oh yeah dna is interesting