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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes

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This book is excellent. It has clear explanations of concepts with excellent diagrams to help you follow along. My professor disagreed with some parts, but aside from those, the text covers everything you need to know about genetics. At the end of each chapter there are numerous study questions that are extremely helpful if you also buy the solution manual. I also enjoyed the cd it came with. The book's website also has lots of vocabulary and practice quizzes. I recommend this book to professors and students of genetics, or to anyone interested in the subject.

I'll try really hard not to rant about how much textbooks cost--but since the only negative part of this review will involve that, I'll get it out of the way: if I have to pay well over a hundred dollars for a required textbook, I want it to be THICK. I want to be able to glean so much knowlege from the book that I walk away with a head two times bigger than it was when I started! When I realized it was written (in part) and contributed to by faculty at the University of Washington (where I earned my BS), I assumed we were assigned this over-priced book simply because they wrote it. As a poor student, it really bothered me...until I read it.

But my rant stops there; the rest of the review is good. I used this book the first year it was published in a class; the text was clear and had a nice mix of review material that kept you up to date. The organization was good, beginning with a brief section on Mendelian genetics, moving to gene regulation, and ending with a bang-up chapter on population genetics and molecular evolution.

I'm hanging on to the book rather than packing it away or selling it back, because I know I still have more to learn. Highly recommended.